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It\u2019s important to learn limitations, especially when engaging with the physical parts of the world. A nazirite is someone who practices limiting himself and does not partake in certain pleasures, such as wine. This seems like a pious, spiritual endeavor, yet the nazirite upon the completion of his oath as a nazirite brings a sin offering. There are many opinions offered as to why, among them is the idea that it is a sin to not partake of the pleasures of the world. The Lubavitcher Rebbe states that the nazirite brings a sin offering not because he didn\u2019t partake in the pleasures of the world, but because he mistook them for simple pleasures at all. Wine in and of itself is pleasurable, but the pleasure it brings should not be pleasure for pleasure\u2019s sake, rather an experience that brings us closer to the Divine. \u201cWhen a person abstains from wine, he is saying that he does not know how to sanctify such activity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The nazirite according to the Lubavitcher Rebbe is someone that does not know how to use the world around them for spiritual purposes. He brings a sin offering to attest that he sees physical things as merely physical. He is unable to look past them to see if they can serve a spiritual purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this chapter, God chastises the people saying \u201cyou gave your nazirites wine\u201d as if to say \u201cyou gave them an item that they did not know how to use in a spiritual way.\u201d This chapter contains many themes of materialism. Amos says that the people sell their needy for shoes (6), drink wine in their altars, in their confiscated garments (8) and in doing so, indulge in pleasure for pleasure\u2019s sake. The shoes, the garments, the libations, are all materials that can be elevated in spirituality. This idea in Chassidut is called \u201c<\/span>avodah b’gashmiut<\/span><\/em>\u201d, service of God through the physical realm. It involves using the body, using the corporeal world of objects and material, and elevating those things by using them in some way to worship God.<\/span><\/p>\n

God created a world with wine. God foresaw a world with clothes, fashion, cars, homes and luxury. 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