An Irs Officer Tries To Be

Anxious for his first investigation he was a bit

perturbed when he was assigned to audit a Rabbi. Looking

over the books and taxes was pretty straightforward and the

Rabbi was clearly very frugal, so he thought he’d make his

day interesting by having a little fun with the Rabbi.

“Rabbi,” he said, “I noticed that you buy a lot of

candles.” “Yes,” answered the Rabbi. “Well, Rabbi,

what do you do with the candle drippings?” he asked. “A

good question,” noted the Rabbi “We actually save them

up, and when we have enough we send them back to the candle

maker And every now and then, they send us a free box of

candles.” “Oh,” replied the auditor, somewhat

disappointed that his unusual question actually had a

practical answer. So he thought he’d go on, in the

traditional obnoxious way… “Rabbi, what about all these

cookie purchases? What do you do with the crumbs from the

cookies?” “Ah, yes,” replied the Rabbi calmly, “we

actually collect up all the crumbs from the cookies and when

we have enough we send them in a box back to the

manufacturer Every now and then, they send a box of

cookies.” “Oh,” replied the auditor, thinking hard how

to fluster the Rabbi. “Well, Rabbi,” he went on, “what

do you do with all the foreskins from the circumcisions?”

“Yes, here too, we do not waste,” answered the Rabbi

“What we do is save up all the foreskins and when we have

enough we actually send them to the IRS.” “The IRS?”

asked the auditor in disbelief. “Ah, yes,” replied the

Rabbi, “the IRS And about once a year they send us a

little  like you.”