Cantor Jokes

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    A shamus is a guy who takes care of handyman tasks around the temple, and makes sure everything is in working order. A shamus is at the bottom of the pecking order of synagog functionaries, and there's a joke about that:
    A rabbi, to show his humility before God, cries out in the middle of a service, "Oh, Lord, I am nobody!".
    The cantor, not to be bested, also cries out, "Oh, Lord, I am nobody!"
    The shamus, deeply moved, follows suit and cries, "Oh, Lord, I am nobody!"
    The rabbi turns to the cantor and says, "Now look who thinks he's nobody!"

    Just before Rosh Hashana, a team of terrorists invades the shul and takes
    the rabbi, the cantor and the shul president hostage. Hours later, the
    governor stands tough, he won't give them a million dollars, nor a getaway
    car nor a Jumbo Jet.
    The terrorists gather the three hostages in a corner and inform them that
    things look bad and they're going to have to shoot them. Nevertheless, to
    show that they're not really a bad bunch, they'll grant each hostage one
    wish.
    "Please," says the rabbi, "for the last two months I've been working on my
    Rosh Hashana Sermon. What a waste to die now without having carried it
    before an audience. I'll go happilly if you let me recite my sermon. It's
    an hour - ninety minutes long, tops."
    They promise to grant him the wish.
    "Please," says the cantor, "after 50 years I've finally gotten the
    'Hinneni' prayer just right. What a waste to die and not sing it to more...

    Three wishes
    A Rabbi, a cantor, and a synagogue president were driving to a seminar when they were kidnapped. The highjackers asked the three of them to hand over all of their money and jewellery. When they replied that they hadn`t any, the hijackers told them that immediately after their last wishes were fulfilled, they would be killed.
    "My last wish," began the Rabbi, is to give a fascinating, complicated, long sermon that I have always wanted to but never been allowed to give."
    "We will grant your wish," the hijackers replied.
    "My last wish," said the cantor, "is to sing a beautiful, Yemenite style song, one of my own compositions lasting two hours. I have never been allowed to sing it."
    "We`ll let you sing it," replied the hijackers.
    "What is your last wish," the hijackers asked the shul president.
    "Please, please shoot me now."

    A cantor brags before his congregation in a booming, bellowing voice: "Two years ago I insured my voice with Lloyds of London for $750,000."
    There is a hushed and awed silence in the crowded room. Suddenly, from the back of the room, the quiet, nasal voice of an elderly woman is heard, "So what did you do with the money?"

    A visiting cantor was invited to sing traditional Jewish songs at a Marlboro synagogue.

    After the services he was bragging that Lloyd's of London has insured his voice for $750,000.00 to members of the congregation. Mrs. Siegel, an older lady, said,' So cantor, what did you do with the money?'

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