I live in Canada. On Shabbos we had a beautiful day, temperature was 65 degrees. As a punishment yesterday was 50 degrees and rain. As the old saying goes, if you don't like the weather in Canada, just wait 5 minutes. It'll change...
I think (as a person who's not frum and does not have a tattoo at least in part out of concerns for Jewish law) that for many frei Jews, the prevalence of Jewish themes in tattoos may have something to do with that prohibition itself—it particularizes a certain kind of relationship to Judaism. The other thing I think is that for all Jews, frei and frum alike, tattooing is associated with the Shoah, and there's a "reclamation" effect of getting beautiful, creative, Jewish-themed tattoos. Just a thought.
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I live in Canada. On Shabbos we had a beautiful day, temperature was 65 degrees. As a punishment yesterday was 50 degrees and rain.
As the old saying goes, if you don't like the weather in Canada, just wait 5 minutes. It'll change...
I think (as a person who's not frum and does not have a tattoo at least in part out of concerns for Jewish law) that for many frei Jews, the prevalence of Jewish themes in tattoos may have something to do with that prohibition itself—it particularizes a certain kind of relationship to Judaism. The other thing I think is that for all Jews, frei and frum alike, tattooing is associated with the Shoah, and there's a "reclamation" effect of getting beautiful, creative, Jewish-themed tattoos. Just a thought.
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