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The Nazir

Samson and Delilah -

; Gustave Doré


The Nazir withdraws from society by applying certain rules to get closer to God.



The Torah does not advocate asceticism or abstinence . If a man or a woman wants nevertheless impose some restrictions, the Torah offers legislation Nazir which consists of three prohibitions:
bans
drink wine, cut their hair and come into contact with a corpse



The Torah emphasizes that this commitment can only be provisional.


It normally takes thirty days ( Mishna Nazir 1, 3), and one who has taken a vow of abstinence is required, at the end of time, to make a sacrifice for sin, and for this "sin against his soul" (Bamidbar 6, 11). Indeed, it has been wrong to reject the worldly goods that God granted him and he would have enjoyed had he not made his commitment. Do not unnecessarily mortify

In the Bible, both figures representing the nazirat are Samson and Samuel.

Samson, was a "perpetual nazir" from the womb of its mother.

status Nazir not normally needed only one who has vowed to become one, and it does no effect on his family. In the case of Samson, on the contrary, his mother was ordered to refrain, even before the conception of her son, and every wine and strong drink, and any unclean food .

Faced with the intoxication of the world it is sometimes necessary to put up barriers. But the barriers have never represented the ideal, they recall the contrary our weakness, our dependence on our own faults psychological moral and spiritual.

is why the Torah considers the escalation ritual or religious excesses as a choice left to the freedom of everyone, never as a horizon to reach.

The nazir can do without wine, hairdresser and cemetery, but it will bring a guilt offering (Acham nazir) at the end of his period of abstinence. Reason? It was not what the Lord had allowed the wine.

on Yom Kippur the officiant said "what You have forbidden, we have allowed (and that's why we ask for forgiveness) and what you have helped us have not (and why we will also ask for forgiveness). " The transgression is as reprehensible as the denial of enjoyment!

Rabbi Chaim Falagas commenting Pirkey Avot basically said about the formula lo am aarets Hasid, generally leads the ignorant can not be religious " ignoring it does not make the monk "- Molière would have said the hypocrite.

is the inner work that has real value in terms of spirituality, the whole outfit is just outside barrier benefits of revealing weaknesses of magnitude. Only the middle way without extremism can lead us to the divine light. alliancefr

The Numbers Chapter 6,
1) The Lord spoke to Moses
2) "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: If a man or a Women vow to be explicitly abstemious, wanting to abstain in honor of the Lord
3) abstain from wine and strong drink , shall drink no vinegar of wine, vinegar or liqueur, or an infusion of some grapes and not eat fresh grapes or dried.
4) All the time of his abstinence, he will not eat any fruit of the vine, from the kernels to the envelope.
5) All the time stipulated for its abstinence, razor does not touch his head: until the days when he wants to refrain from the Lord, he must stay healthy, let it grow freely hair of his head.
6) All the time that abstinence in honor of the LORD, he shall not approach a dead body ;
7) for his father and mother, his brother and sister, for even those he does unclean when they die, because the halo of his God is on his head.
8) So he will wear that halo, he is devoted to the Lord.