“The nazir will shave his consecrated head at the entrance to the tent of meeting, take the hair removed from his consecrated head and put it on the fire under the sacrifice of peace offerings. When the ram has been boiled, the cohen is to take its shoulder, one loaf of matzah from the basket and one unleavened wafer, and place them […]

“If someone next to him dies very suddenly, so that he defiles his consecrated head, then he is to shave his head on the day of his purification; he is to shave it on the seventh day. On the eighth day he is to bring two doves or two young pigeons to the cohen at the entrance […]

We’ve been studying about the office of the Nazarite and how it operated. One important thing to remember is that just because a certain Bible character had long hair or abstained from strong drink did NOT necessarily mean that person was a Nazarite. Another important point to remember is that depending on the place and […]

Some people think John the Baptist was a Nazarite because he was a lonely hermit who went off into the desert, dressed weird and subsisted on locusts and honey. However, here’s a couple of prevalent myths about a Nazarite that clash with the generally held image of John the Baptist.  –A NAZARITE HELD TO A VERY […]

Today let’s deal with the question of why the Nazarite is strictly forbidden from eating grapes. The Scripture doesn’t give us a direct answer but the Jewish scholars give us an answer that makes really good sense. The first point I want to make is that in Scripture Israel is often symbolized by the grapevine. […]