Timeline for Why would somebody become a nazir?
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| May 1, 2018 at 16:03 | answer | added | NaTaN | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 28, 2014 at 12:52 | comment | added | הנער הזה | @Fred I was going to just answer, 'because he/she is good looking' based on that Gemara in Nazir | |
| May 28, 2014 at 12:43 | answer | added | user4523 | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 19, 2013 at 23:51 | comment | added | msh210♦ | All previous commenters: these seem like answers. Might I suggest you post them as such? | |
| May 19, 2013 at 23:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackJudaism/status/336255290980855808 | ||
| May 19, 2013 at 20:39 | comment | added | Seth J | What @fred said. Essentially, your first guess, more or less. If people feel a need for spiritual elevation beyond what they get by performing the other Mitzvoth, this is the Torah-prescribed way. | |
| May 19, 2013 at 20:26 | answer | added | ray | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 19, 2013 at 20:05 | comment | added | Fred | See also Sefer HaChinuch (§ 374), who portrays the nazirite vow as a tool that the Torah provides for people to occasionally undertake when they feel the need to withdraw from immersion in society and the pleasures of the world and thereby blunt their physical desires and focus on his service of the Almighty. The gemara (Nazir 4b) provides an example of a man whose evil inclination threatened to overpower him when he saw how handsome he was. The man took the extraordinary measure of immediately taking the nazirite vow that would require him to shave of his beautiful hair. | |
| May 19, 2013 at 19:44 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | halakhah.com/sotah/sotah_2.html#2a | |
| May 19, 2013 at 19:29 | history | asked | Monica Cellio | CC BY-SA 3.0 |