There is a law in Judaism that states that the word God cannot be destroyed. Therefore, to write it down makes it *possible* that some time in the future, that word might be destroyed. Thus, the prohibition is actually against destroying the word. But the way to ensure that that doens't happen is not to write it down in the frist place.
There are actual severa instnaces of this in Judaism (though of course this is the only one I an think of off the top) where the prohibition is against Concept B, but Jews will implent "safeguards" to ensure it doesn't happen.
This is, by the way, the relatively short answer. I'm sure one of our true Jewish mamas can give a better answer
Edited to add: Desertmoon came up with another one. She said, "Nowhere in the Torah does it say not to mix meat and milk." but because of the prohbition against cookig a calf in its mother's milk, if you don't mix meat and milk *at all*, then you won't run into this probably accientally. Just like the not writing God thing
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Educate and be Educated.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small"><EM>Edited by anise on Thu Nov 08 09:43 PM.</EM></FONT></P>