Who’s Watching the Mohel?

Winner gets a free Nextbook Press book appropriate to his or her comment (provided he or she emails me at [email protected] with his or her mailing address).

This week’s winner is “djp,” who offered a solicited mohel joke that he suspected many of us had heard but that, well, I hadn’t:

“Guy’s walking down the street when he realizes his watch has stopped working. He sees a storefront with photographs of clocks and watches in the windows. Walks in, tells the guy inside that his watch is broken.
The man says, ‘What do you want me to do about it? I’m not a watchmaker.’
The customer says, ‘Well, why do you have pictures of clocks in your window?’
The man answers, ‘I’m a MOHEL, what do you want me to put in my window?’”

Incidentally, Liel Leibovitz and I were able to come up with a brief mohel rhyme inspired by Gilbert & Sullivan:

I am the very model of a modern mohel master,
I’ve information of cutting smoother, finer, faster,
I quote the Torah passages in a manner quite rhetorical
From Genesis to Ecclesiastics in order categorical
I’m very well acquainted, too, with penial information
From spots upon the shaft to uretrhal inflammation
I’ve dealt with many heads both spherical and conical
And I don’t think my vocation merits any mention comical
In short in matters of cutting smoother, finer, faster,
I am the very model of a modern mohel master

Anyway. “djp” gets a copy of The Jewish Body.

A Very Prolific Mohel
The Jewish Body [Nextbook Press]