Parshas Naso Shabbos Times Erev Shabbos Shabbos Day Mincha / Candle Lighting 4:57pm Shacharis 9:00am Shkiya 5:14pm Latest time for Shema 9:48am Shabbos Mincha 3:30 / 4:45pm Shabbos Ends 5:58pm Motzei Shabbos Avos Ubonim This week Avos Ubonim has been sponsored by Family Deutsch On the occasion of Yona's birthday 7:00 -7:45pm Special treat this week - Hot chips!! Shabbos afternoon program for boys Shabbos Afternoon Groups with your Madrichim - 30 mins before the late mincha Short Vort on the Parsha The Torah mentions in this weeks 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.