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Old 10-07-10 | 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by dmp
The only Jewish heritage about tattoos is the one that involves numbers on the left forearm- and believe me, those were not obtained by choice! The whole idea is highly offensive, to say the least (and asur d'oraita, if you know anything about "Jewish heritage").

Also, you seem to have made a spelling error- there is no word in Hebrew spelled aleph-chet-shin-hay....
"You shall not make gashes in your flesh for the dead, or incise any marks on yourselves: I am the Lord" (Leviticus 19:28).

Which is interpreted in Jewish theology as meaning tattoos = no, and (with the aforementioned numbers excluded) denial of burial in a Jewish cemetery.
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