Parshas Naso Shabbos Times Erev Shabbos Shabbos Day Candle Lighting 4:50pm Latest time for Shema 9:54am Shkiya 5:07pm Shabbos Ends 5:53pm Avos Ubonim at Home Avos Ubonim 7:00-7:45pm Join us on Zoom at 7:45pm for this week's RAFFLE Special treat - Hot Chips!! Kindly sponsored by Zalmy Kass and family in memory of Zalmy's mother, whose Yahrzeit is this week (This is besides the communal weekly Avos Ubonim) Short Vort on the Parsha The Torah mentions in this week's parsha (6:11) that a Nazir must bring a chatas. What is the reason for this korban? Rashi (6:11) brings the Tanna Rebbi Eliezer HaKappar, who explains that the Nazir has sinned by wrongly withholding wine from himself. Yet the Torah (6:5) indicates that such a person is holy for this act of becoming a Nazir - so is he holy or a sinner? The Kli Yakar resolves this contradiction by noting that the Torah only says that the Nazir has sinned in a case where he desecrated his Nezirus by coming into contact with a corpse. Since this has the effect of cancelling his previous days of Nezirus and requiring the Nazir to start his days of Nezirus all over again, the previous days of refraining from wine have been shown to be in vain. This is why he is branded a sinner, for it turns out that he refrained from wine for no reason. But a regular Nazir who manages to see out his term of Nezirus successfully is not sinner. The Ramban takes a different approach to understanding the reason why a Nazir brings a chatas. He explains that the Nazir needs to bring a chatas because he is now leaving an elevated state of kedusha and going back to his regular lifestyle..