The Nazirite Vow in Counseling

In this article, Joseph Propri examines how to help those with life-dominating problems that stem from matters not forbidden in Scripture—eating sweets, drinking wine, driving a car through town, etc.—yet become occasions of sin, “feeding factors” for gluttony, drunkenness or immorality. Propri applies Numbers 6:1-21, the Nazarite Vow, to those situations that call for a “temporary abstention from certain otherwise permitted behavior for the purpose of special consecration” as a way forward in these cases.