# Jews can't get tattoos?  Really?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 16, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-cant-get-tattoos-really/456744 "2008-07-16T20:48:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-cant-get-tattoos-really/456744/61 "2009-11-08T05:48:53Z")

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> [@cmkeller](#):
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> OK, just remember, you asked for it:
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> \<snip\>
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> Further discussion in the Talmud centers around how the Torah indicates that the milk in question need not come specifically from that animal’s own mother, and not specifically, even from the same species.

Huh. I always thought it was a precautionary measure, like the whole G-d thing\*. You know, you don’t know where the milk comes from, so it might be from the mother.

\*From what I heard, it’s to make sure nobody defaces the Name, per Deuteronomy 12:3. ([Source](http://www.jewfaq.org/name.htm))

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