Parshas Kedoshim: Are Tattoos Taboo? Micro-pigmentation and Permanent Make-up

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

here. Um it's a topic that does not have any relevance to me personally. That I could assure you. The possuk says like this. Do not make a scratch for a soul. And a writing of engraving, what we know as a tattoo, should not place in yourself. Ani Hashem. So, we have a love in the Torah you're not allowed to make a tattoo. Okay. Rashi says, what is so this karka? Says Rashi, kesav hamikuka a writing which is engraved vishakua and embedded she'eilu nimchak l'olam. Remember the words of Rashi, it can never be erased. Shemisha karka'oi b'machat, once it's engraved with a needle v'hamashke'a and it's darkened l'olam it stays that way forever. Okay, so we have a love in the Torah against getting a tattoo and I know you're thinking why in the world is Rabbi saying about tattoos. That is one thing that we're pretty confident l'acharei me'ah v'esrim shanah we go up to shamayim. I don't know what's going to be with the tefillin, I don't know what's going to be with the Torah. One thing we say Ribono shel Olam I could say mamash emes l'amitai oksovis karka lo simnu b'chem lo simnu b'chem lo simnu b'chem b'milui. And that's what today's shear is about some of the practical ramifications of this love. But before we begin, I have to share with you a certain shaila that really was like chasing after me this week. Wherever I

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2. 4:33life in life everything in life inches make all the difference in the world, you know.…
3. 9:09the journal is Tchumin. Tchumin is a very scholarly journal which is published by the Zomet…
4. 13:11That that shaila is discussed in the volume of Tshumin in Krayot. The next shaila, which…
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6. 23:02but it's not forever. So, perhaps according to Rashi also, it would not be an issur…
7. 27:12sisimnu bahem." Do not make a tattoo "ani Hashem." Now, what does that mean you're not…
8. 31:45going to run away. So, you want to tat Basically, you want to tattoo the eved.…
9. 35:50The person feels very uncomfortable. This is classic Godol kavod habriyos and it would l'chatchila push…
10. 40:28Reb Ovadia is the right person to give me someach on for, you know, ladies' apparel.…

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