If your Jewish, and you get tattooed, you can not be buried in a Jewish cemetary...unless it's a concentration camp # tattoo

RMAN4443 wrote:

some interesting tidbits

delta1 wrote:

I grew up with that as a hard fact, and though it is true that tats themselves are considered, for lack of a better word, illegal, like other broken laws of the Torah it does not automatically mean exclusion, as I was taught decades ago.

However, as I recently learned (staying with the brilliant OP) individual cemeteries/Synagogues can have that as a rule.
Or have a separate burial area. Or not.

Just so strange to believe something for 60 years and find it isn't written in stone...

frankj1 wrote:

ok,thanks...it was something I heard from someone, but wasn't 100% sure if it was a fact or not

RMAN4443 wrote:

I grew up with that as a hard fact, and though it is true that tats themselves are considered, for lack of a better word, illegal, like other broken laws of the Torah it does not automatically mean exclusion, as I was taught decades ago.

However, as I recently learned (staying with the brilliant OP) individual cemeteries/Synagogues can have that as a rule.
Or have a separate burial area. Or not.

Just so strange to believe something for 60 years and find it isn't written in stone...

frankj1 wrote:

Like how you mixed in 'isn't written in stone'.

Very Moses of you.

8trackdisco wrote:

Huh... I've read the Torah twice. Never saw anything in there that said no tattoos. lol

MACS wrote:

Apparently, as lengthy as the Torah is, there just wasn't enough in it to argue about. As a result, rabbis have been making additional rules and laws for centuries... And arguing about them for just as long.

One thing I value about Judaism is the profound responsibility to question all aspects of the faith and teachings. As an example, those who wish to convert just as a rabbi to teach and guide them through the process, but the rabbi Tells them "no" three different times before he accepts them as students. That way, they really question the decision and have to decide to commit.

Also, to Frank's point about knowing something until you don't know it, i was a grown damn adult before I found out you don't really have to wait 30 minutes after you eat to go swimming. Yeah. The rest of the dive boat had a good laugh that day.

Stogie1020 wrote:

I really did know when I wrote it.
Just wasn't feelin' it called for a "see what I did there"...

thanks for noticing.

frankj1 wrote:

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bgz

frankj1 wrote: