A man is able to impose a Nazirite vow on his son, but a woman cannot impose a Nazirite vow on her son. If [the lad] polls himself or is polled by his relatives, or if he protests or his relatives protest on his behalf, then if [the father] had set aside an animal [for the sacrifice], the sin-offering is left to die, the burnt-offering is to be offered as an [ordinary] burnt-offering, and the peace-offering is to be offered as an [ordinary] peace-offering. This [last], however, may be eaten for one day [only], and requires no loaves. If he had unspecified monies, they fall [to the Temple Treasury] to provide freewill-offerings: whilst with regard to earmarked monies, the price of the sin-offering is to be taken to the Dead Sea, it being neither permissible to use it, nor possible to malappropriate it; for the price of the burnt-offering, a burnt-offering is to be provided and this can suffer malappropriation, whilst for the price of the peace-offering, a peaceoffering is to be provided, which may be eaten for one day only and requires no loaves. |
נזיר 4.6 |
A man can poll [with offerings due for] his father`s Naziriteship. But a woman cannot do so. Where, for example, a man`s father had been a Nazirite, and has set apart a lump sum of money for [the sacrifices of] his Naziriteship and died and [the son then] said, `I declare myself a Nazirite on condition that I may poll with my father`s money. R. Jose said that these moneys are to be used for freewill-offerings and that such a man cannot poll at the expense of his father`s Naziriteship. Who can do so? He who was a Nazirite together with his father, and whose father had set apart a lump sum of money for his Nazirite [sacrifices] and died. [Only] such a man can poll at the expense of his father`s Naziriteship. |
נזיר 4.7 |
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