A Nozir is a person who has taken a vow to abstain from grape products, haircuts, and contact with the dead.

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Why is a “NAZIR” not allowed to drink wine?

Let me elaborate: If the reason is for him being sober. Why the hair? or the Caution of not being impure? And even more so: in the pasuk it sais “מִיַּיִן וְשֵׁכָר יַזִּיר” that can be explained as ...
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Why would somebody become a nazir?

B'midbar chapter 6 explains the laws of one who vows to become a nazir, but I've long been puzzled by why one would do this. (Our most famous nazir was commanded in this; Shimshon didn't make that ...
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Nozir and four cups of wine

How can a nozir fulfill the mitzvah of drinking four cups of wine at the passover seder? p.s. It is not a riddle. My son asked me this question, and I don't know what to answer him.
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Clean Cut Nazir?

Can a Nazir cut the hairs on his face?