 FACT: Mordechai is portrayed as a faithful Orthodox Jew, but during  a scene with his shirt off, In the scene depicting the morning after  Mordechai and Esther make love, its clear that Mordechai has  several tattoos, which are forbidden in traditional Judaism. Adam  Goldberg has stated in interviews that the only reason for this is  that he was too lazy to get up early in the morning to have the  makeup artists cover up the tattoos. The tattoos go without comment  in the dialogue because, according to director Jonathan Kesselman,  the Hebrew Hammer has already gone against tradition by engaging in  premarital sex, and so a couple tattoos are nothing compared to  that.