Punishment enough
A rabbi loves to play golf, but he never seems to have time. He can’t play on Shabbat, there’s religious school on Sundays, and on days off, something always comes up.
But amidst all the activity of the High Holy Days, he somehow gets a very early tee time before services on Yom Kippur.
A passing angel sees him and reports him to the Lord. “I’ll take care of him,” is the casual response, and the angel hurries back to the golf course to observe. On the next hole, the rabbi gets a hole-in-one.
Baffled, the angel returns to question the Lord. “Weren’t you going to punish him?” the angel asks. “He just got a hole-in-one!”
“I know,” replies the Lord. “But who’s he going to tell?”
The restaurant biz
Jerry goes to the rabbi and says, “I committed a sin and I want to know what I can do to repent.”
“What was the sin?” the rabbi asks.
“It happened just once,” Jerry assures him. “I didn’t wash my hands and recite the blessing before eating bread.”
“Nu, if it really only happened once,” the rabbi says, “that’s not so terrible. Nonetheless, why did you neglect to wash your hands and recite the blessing?”
“I felt awkward rabbi,” said Jerry. “You see, I was in an non-kosher restaurant.”
The rabbi’s eyebrows arch. “And why were you eating in an un-kosher restaurant?”
“I had no choice,” Jerry says. “All the kosher restaurants were closed.”
“And why were all the kosher restaurants closed?” the rabbi asks.
Jerry replies, “Because it was Yom Kippur.”
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