Halacha's confrontation with medical innovation is often complicated and very detailed. Here, we analyze halacha's response to individuals who underwent transsexual surgery.
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.