Body Art in Jewish Law

Mark A. Mandel, © 2000
ttto "Acts of Creation", Cat Faber


Since we're made in God's own image,
    it's incumbent on the Jew
Not to mar it or deface it
    with a piercing or tattoo.
And when life has left the body
    don't embalm and don't destroy
Every act of cremation
    is an act of goy!


Pierced earrings in the earlobes are explicitly excluded from this restriction. Why? Tradition!


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