A few months ago, there was an opening with the Mossad for a targeted assassin. These highly classified positions are hard to fill, and there's a lot of testing and background checks involved before you can even be considered for the position. After sending some applicants through the background checks, training and testing, they narrowed the possible choices down to two men and one woman, but only one position was available. ]

The day came for the finalist to see which person would get the extremely secretive job. The men administering the test took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun. We must know if you will follow your instructions no matter what the circumstances; they explained.

"Inside this room, you will find your wife sitting in a chair. Take this gun and kill her." The man got a shocked look on his face and said, "You can't be serious! I could never shoot my own wife!" "Well," says the agent, "you're definitely not the right man for this job then."

"So they bring the second man to the same door and hand him a gun. "We must know that you will follow instructions no matter what the circumstances," they explained to the second man. "Inside you will find your wife sitting in a chair. Take this gun and kill her." The second man looked a bit shocked, but never the less took the gun and went in the room. All was quiet for about 5 minutes, then the door opened. The man came out of the room with tears in his eyes. "I tried to shoot her, I just couldn't pull the trigger and shoot my wife, I guess I'm not the right man for the job."

"No" the man replied, "You don't have what it takes. Take your wife and go home." Now they're down to the woman left to test. They lead her to the same door to the same room and handed her the same gun. "We must be sure that you will follow instructions no matter what the circumstances, this is your final test. Inside you will find your husband sitting in a chair. Take this gun and kill him."

The woman took the gun and opened the door. Before the door even closed all the way, the agents heard the gun start firing. One shot after another for 13 shots They heard screaming, crashing, banging on the walls. This went on for several minutes, then all went quiet. The door opened slowly, and there stood the woman. She wiped the perspiration from her brow and said "You guys didn't tell me the gun was loaded with blanks! I had to beat the bastard to death with a chair!"

So? She just followed instructions. They were to kill the husband, not necessarily with the gun.

And why did the Mossad allow the "screaming, crashing, and banging on the walls" to proceed for a few minutes if they had no intention of letting her murder her husband?

Perhaps there is some confusion, this is the "humor" section, not everything is necessarily logical or literal, nor is it deep halacha, just a joke.

Bracha

I am moiche the butchering of this classic joke for evil feminist purposes...

Although there are many versions, the original punchline did NOT include a woman applicant

OK, the original had a MALE Tyrannosaurus rex devouring a MALE caveman if you want to go back that far.

"evil feminist purposes?" If I was an evil feminist I would point out that punch line is two words but I'm just going to let it go this time and head back to the pool hall to hustle some old geezers with too much money in their pocket so I can buy a new Torah pointer for the shul.

OY VEY!