March 12, 2023
Published by Rabbi Yosef A. Cohen, MD at March 12, 2023
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Parshat Ki Tisa

The elitism then of שבט לוי as opposed to the other שבטים is one of higher education. In a time when education was primarily a familial responsibility it was necessary to ensure one family retained the task of ensuring proper technical and detailed instructions were taught to future generations.
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March 12, 2023
Published by Rabbi Yosef A. Cohen, MD at March 12, 2023
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Kotev

כותב is doing an action that will form permanent words, numbers or pictures. That action does not necessarily need to be a form of writing. Instead, any action that will form words will be an איסור מדאורייתא. מוחק is the reverse of כותב. That is, the removal of letters in order to make space for new letters to be written down.
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January 29, 2023
Published by Rabbi Yosef A. Cohen, MD at January 29, 2023
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Microblading

An erroneous position attributed to Judaism is that tattooed individuals cannot be buried in Jewish cemeteries. Nevertheless, tattooing is clearly Biblically prohibited by Jewish law. Here, we define this prohibition and determine how those qualifications affect cosmetic tattooing, specifically, microblading.
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