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400,000 Aish subscribers  Tattoo Prohibition   The Aish Rabbi
Replies:  The Torah states explicitly: "You should not put a
tattoo on your body" (Leviticus 19:27). This is accepted Jewish
practice, as recorded in the Code of Jewish Law (Yoreh Deah
180:1).  If someone already has a tattoo, he does not have to
have it removed, though many people will have them removed
because they feel uncomfortable about it.  Whether or not
someone with a tattoo can be buried in a Jewish graveyard is not
even a question in your case. Since Jewish law prohibits
tattooing in the first place, surely your husband should not get
one.  Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (19th century, Germany)
explains the reason for this prohibition. God made man in the
image of God Himself (Genesis 1:26). Of course, this doesn't
mean that God looks like us, but it does mean that our body is a
finite expression of God's infinite wisdom. One Midrash even
says that Abraham figured out all the m