2,922. Bringing the Nezirus Offerings of One's Father

Hilchos Nezirus 8:15

If a man takes a vow to be a nazir, he may bring offerings that were left by his father for this use, but a woman may not shave after nezirus using offerings left by her father. This law was transmitted via our oral tradition. The case is that a man’s father made a nazirite vow and put aside money to buy animals for his offerings but he died before doing so. He left the money not specifying particular offerings. After the father died, the son said: “I’m a nazir on the condition that I can bring my offerings using the money that my father put aside for his offerings.” In such a case, he may use these funds for this purpose. Similarly, let’s say that the man and his father were both nazirs and the father put money aside without specifying particular offerings, after which he died. If, after his death, the son says that he will shave using the offerings of his father, he may bring his offerings using this money. If the son doesn’t say these things, then the money is used to buy freewill offerings. If the deceased left many sons, they divide the unspecified funds as their inheritance. Each of them may shave with offerings bought using his share of the money, the firstborn receiving two shares, as is usually the case.

Hilchos Nezirus 8:16

A son may shave and bring his offerings from the money of his father’s nezirus even if the father was a permanent nazir and the son was a temporary nazir or vice versa.