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It's astonishing, really. Take, for example, the laws of the nazir, the one who takes a vow of separation, a path of heightened holiness. The Book of Numbers lays out some very spe...
It's more than just letting your hair grow long! The Book of Numbers (6:6) states: “All the days of his abstinence to the Lord, he shall not approach a dead person.” Bamidbar Rabba...
We find a fascinating exploration of this idea in the book of Numbers, specifically chapter 6, which deals with the laws of the nazir, or Nazirite. A Nazirite is someone who takes ...
That's what we're diving into today, a fascinating corner of Jewish law dealing with ritual impurity and the dedication of a nazir. Our guide is Bamidbar Rabbah, a Midrashic compil...
to a fascinating passage from Bamidbar Rabbah 10, a midrashic commentary on the Book of Numbers, specifically dealing with the laws of the nazir, or Nazirite. The passage opens wit...
Today, we’re diving into a fascinating corner of Jewish law: the rules surrounding the nazir, or nazirite, a person who takes a special vow to abstain from certain pleasures for a ...
Specifically, a nazir – a Nazirite. The passage we're looking at today comes from Bamidbar Rabbah 10, which is a collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Numbers. It f...
We're going to unpack the rules surrounding the offerings brought at the conclusion of their period of separation. The verse we’re focusing on is Numbers 6:19: “The priest shall ta...
to a passage from Bamidbar Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Numbers. Specifically, we’re looking at chapter 10, which gets into the specifics of the ...
