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Originally Posted by baddog
Why is it whenever I tell you something you don't know, I am the one that is wrong?
Leviticus 19:28, ?You shall not make gashes in your flesh for the dead, or incise any marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.?
The general principal is that in the Jewish faith, the body belongs to god, and a person is simply borrowing it until s/he returns it in heaven. A person violating this law was historically unable to be buried in a Jewish graveyard.
This decree has become more political since WW2. During the holocaust, Nazis tattooed numbers and letters on prisoners, knowingly violating Jewish code.
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You are correct in that jews are not supposed to do them but many these days ignore these. Ami from Miami Ink is also jewish and look at how many he has. It's just a think that is written down and jews are suppose to respect but not mandatory. Same goes for earings or things like that but it's very commonly ignored as well.
If someone does have a tattoo then they may have a problem to be buried in a jewish cemetery because of this issue.
The laws says they will be burried on the side of the cemetery and not with everyone else since the body was manipulated.