[Avodah] The Tatoo Taboo and Permanent Make-Up Too

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

> Jewish burial is not dependent on whether or not one violated Torah law,

There are cemeteries, or sections within them, where only observant Jews 
can be buried, in line with the halacha that one may not bury a rasha 
next to a tzadik.  But a person who qualified for burial there would not 
be rejected for having a tattoo, since it would be assumed that he had 
long ago repented.  (The sin is *getting* the tattoo, not *having* it; 
once it's been done there's no obligation to remove it.)

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Zev Sero                May 2017, with its *nine* days of Chanukah,
zev at sero.name           be a brilliant year for us all