EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: "The Real Live Nazir" R' Eli Stefansky speaks to the Nazir, R' Ohad Turgeman

thank you Rabbi for having me pleasure a real live true nausea so now that we're starting to set this nausea I wanted to ask you a few questions about the zeros maybe tell me a little bit about why you became an author what it's like to live like in other what could you tell us Enlighten us a little bit about the zeros first of all uh when we when we speak about the Torah the war to Rua is corrected to is similar to to the word is older mitzvot all the meaning of the Torah is that we are going to make the Torah we're gonna do whatever wrote in the Torah so the Mitzvah the highest Mitzvah of Nazir which is very very special mitzvah foreign and we know by the halacha there is two kind of two kinds of people that call Holi One is the kohen that is walk you walk in better mcdash you walk on the Miss Berg and the second is Nazir Torah call him which the meaning the that if you want to be close to Hashem there is way which is not the way for everybody but someone who want it want to become close to Hashem it became a Nazir and the way to do it it's not that difficult you just say two words and in the minute when you say this to water any naziri will become closer to Hashem this is what the Torah this is the fact that wrote in the Torah and this is the order of of mitzvahnazir is saying that Nazir is the word Nazir is Mission nether it's like the king okay the king put the crown on his head this is the meaning of naziru that's why they had the the hair of the Nazir is very holy um what make me became a Nazir I rode on the mitzvah and when I was there in a age 17 I I looked on the picture of a bidavitacoin and I asked myself I asked Rabbi who is this man and he told me he was Nazir jerusalemi he was Nazir in Jerusalem and he was so close to the meaning of being holy and pure and sometimes one people one people that act very purely he he stand against a lot of people a lot of eggs and it's make the the the protect to all over the world all the children in the world all the Jewish Nations and this is one part and the second part that one of the things that the rambam he says that we have we have one thing that we are we we lost we have two things that we lost one is the more material and and the second is more spiritual the first one is betamic Dash we lose betamic Dash but beta mcdash it's a house it's a house of Hashem it's a house of mitzvot everything okay but there is other thighs spiritual size that we lose the spiritual side this the spiritual the spiritual issue that we lose is um is the prophetic the prophetic anevoir and the rambam says you know I you know what let me read it to you the rambam says in the court of law he says that the most thing that close to became a prophetic man can to bring the prophetic to am Israel is the nazirul that's why that's what he wrote he says the meaning is that the last uh prophetic men that we had at the last his last name is wrote in the last in the rambam which the meaning is that when the guys of Israel the Jewish guy will become nazirim we have a lot of nazareem in the end the the the spiritual size the the prophetic will become to Earth Israel to arm Israel again and this is all what we hope and what we're praying for so very nice first of all could I see you're here could I see the back what does it look like to be a nozer appeared let's pay us what about the back where is it back here is it's there it's there it's there so how many how many years are you another five five all that in five years yes so how does it affect your life what what what can't you do what could you do they say you feel Holier uh I I want to tell you I want to answer first on this question first of all I fear I feel uh that I found my place in the world it's take me to to live like in my dream in my special place and my correct place in Abu data Hashem in the way that I live and about Hashem you know think people think that if you became Holier you became you don't play with your your kids you don't go to the Macaulay you don't go to to buy you don't do dishes but it's not true the truth is that it's make you something inside you that make you more closer to yourself more closer to Hashem more closer to your goal that you came to this world and this is what the nizirut uh take me take me to this place and I fill in this place yes it's make me Holier I think it's opened my mind in the Torah in the torata Kabbalah I heard that you wrote turis Farm yes and what topics uh a lot of topics since you became another evening from before I started before but since I became another it became like the gate just opened yes the ideas come in yes correct and you told me that your wife is also in the zero yeah not your kid you have six kids playing horror okay your wife so what about her she doesn't write swarm no she really yeah she's gonna she's Holier she feels holy we we feel that it's open something in our life in our heart in our feeling uh you know it's a process you don't uh even from the by the you can be in one minute Nazir but it's a process you are make the this big decision because it's for all of your life you cannot change it when you you're another Simpson I'm an azer so that means you could go to funerals you go to levias yes you could be Tamil maze but it's forever it's forever yes do you do any kind of condition any kind of tonight that you could get out of it let's say one day you have harada what can you do okay I have some patents that I created yeah keep on going my lunch is fell out that's fine okay I have some patent that I created yeah it's wrote In jorgeous maybe you should find it first yeah you don't have to stop there's no way out of it even if he wants to yes he has he has it tonight foreign [Music] but just in case you want to get out of it how could you get out of it okay so this question was um there is two ways to be a Nazir one is and the second is a bad way to be a nazil a lot of a lot of books that have the answer in the road that um they was against Nazir why because people was using it they would tell their wife when they were angry if you will not do this and that I'm gonna be another symptom and it's forever but we know that there is Allah and I say this is a big answer on it but the the meaning is that there is if you do and a two Nethers two nidorin and you have tuned but you say it in the in the same sentence in the same as nether so the meaning the the meaning is that if you are make hatara on one another when the first fall the second also fall okay so it wrote about regular nederim but we know there is a Mach locket between two big scheme the first one is the mabit and the second is is a marble Bach they have an argument in halacha if if someone had an Israel team Sean his wife if the man can her husband in the day that he hear that she take care on herself the snareder if he can also broke their nether why because something that is tough and something that it's it's soft the tough things that he cannot make it off when you take the nether you think it's forever and the second thing is that it's he can literally my team like we learn in Theft about so what did they do did they make other nether with this nether of niziruchim Sean but I after I I feel and I I I do this a lot of here but Hashem I don't think I'm gonna use it there's a lot Hashem and this is one thing and the second thing that every well if you do use it meaning that it it retroactively cancels all you need yes it's not from here on it's it takes it off from the beginning this is very big question if the meaning is if if someone like if I do this today I cancel the first nether okay so the second nether is fall but before four days I was drinking a kazai Time so the meaning that I I should get a malcot if it was a tra so now that I can sell it after a few days if if I if I already high optimal code the question is if now I am okay there is a lot of question about this insurance game about this but I have a different question whatever thought is foreign we do a few things but this came after the zeros yes I feel listen I feel that after the root things are open seeing though also yes and I want to tell you something it's wrote in the Allah when there is a big scula that wrote in the Torah and it's wrote in a few places in a few places first of all when David Melech will get into the walk all of his uh all of it all of his um his Soldier was getting his root on themselves and after after the betamic dash destroyed by Chinese destroyed they were looking for someone that will take off will break their Roots you will learn it in Nazir and second second thing that um it's wrote in this theorem also that when someone was sick he was taken himself in the world to to help him to get half and we see it in shimshan when when when Lila cut his hair his power get down that's why that's why I asked the son of the rambam they asked him if someone getting his root he will become stronger he says not it's not it's not surely that that he will become stronger but it will become Holier shimshon because of his nephesh he became stronger but if someone is smart he will become smarter it's like you take something and you make it extremely and what's another thing uh what is what that's special in this Mitzvah that this Mitzvah it's like it's walk every each every each second why because it's also in the pursuit the meaning that you should not cut your hair and when your hair is growing every each second you have a Mitzvah meets that is that's why this is the only Mitzvah also when you sleep also when you when you do whatever you want whatever you as your life every every each second that you like you're making them it's not a semi-dog we don't have any Mitzvah that's similar like this like it's not miserable that every each second you make him it's not a semi-dog all right don't get those socks tell us when they go yeah okay so I'll ask the question again ready hold on a second and you're on okay so you spoke a lot about the positives and how it influenced your whole life and what are some of the negatives what are some of the downside or let's say how do you Kiddush have a dollar dollar cases on pesach Purim what to tell some of the some of the things that that's hard to be another where is it hard um first of all I want to answer um I want to answer you that when you are connected to something even it's hard it's truly it's not hard because this is the way that you choose to live your life and if you connected it so whatever come it's come we are we have in it and we have the the way to lead to Modern with this with this yeah to deal with some situation uh first of all that was hard for me is um and when you deal with something when you have problem you deal you figure out that if you are connected to your goal you find out that this dealing open you other Gates and the first thing that was difficult for me is to go out with the hair and you know as a religious we're going to the make way and the migrid was a big problem for me because I don't want uh in the in the two First Years three thirty first years when I became a Nazir Nazir I was um were in a big big hat because I don't I don't know I didn't know how people will react yeah react for it you know so um first I I was look I I go to the make way in different hours like early in the morning and thing and after it I learned about the sugeya of the mikvote and I make us and I had a potent how to build a MC venue house very easy uh a way and very cheap I you can watch me on YouTube in my class I really did it I didn't watch it but I already did the two point emails okay so you'll show me yes but it's made out of the roster no no it's me it's even cheaper than what you did uh if you if you want we can see it but the the thing that it's a it's it's it's like the deal in the problem open you other option make you think in other way that you think it is today answer the Box yes out of the box and I think this is the this is our power to to think to to open mind and there is a few things that you know you deal with them like we do a Kiddush we make a birkon like blast and you know when you are going um when I fly to other countries like New York or when I go to communities in the world so sometimes I need to explain them the meaning of having Kiddush with Nazir or if we do like a sudas they have after sudashi they have the blasts with them with the the blast with the the moon on the wine so there is yes it's a little different but you know the one of the rabbi that was here khatam so far wrote a chuva because there was an argument between him and there is there was one big Rabbi here in Israel which his name was he came to the communities of the khatam's affair and they do a wedding they want to respect him to had a bless in the Hupa so he came he hold he could say brojo we know that it is also us Americans okay that much we know we understand okay so we make the brachi and you hold the the cup of the Kiddush so uh now you're pushing it okay no I'm kidding I'm kidding yeah go so uh so uh was angry about it they wrote the chuva one to each other one time they they invite me also to do a bless in the um so I came to the Hupa the first brother no but but we we can because it's on that cup yes so we cannot so you can't even hold it yeah oh this is the argument between not allowed even to hold it someone that given Nazir wine to drink and it doesn't say to him it's like uh so one time they invite me to make a bracha in the hopa so I got a decline you have to say no yes I had to say no but I say I agree only if you give me to make a beer so they say okay we we want you to make a Baja so I go to the I may I I brought the beer to the when they call me I get to the power with the beer and there so one of the guy says look was what's a is a cool Rabbi long hair beer he knows to do a wedding as a can yes there is solution there is few solution I'm thinking now that because you're a nozzard it's probably people are very into kubali so a lot of people come knocking your daughter and then things like that yeah but living foreign and I and I want I really truthfully I want to people know that like I say in the start of the interview that um we should know that Torah foreign throughout the generations we don't have that many Nazir that reason if it's such an easy thing to do and it makes you closer how come how come it's not accepted okay I'm sure there's a funeral here and there and you're going to quote different names maybe some we heard somebody didn't but the main delay though even by this faradim and by the national how come they're not nazirin okay so the answer is um the answer is very very simple first of all we have three kinds of Nursery which is you can literally my team and the second is which meaning he say how much time we're going to be at Nazir and the third is the nazirle Olam the two uh the the two last kinds of the dream they cannot be in the dream in because they they must hold themselves uh outside of the Tuma to mat and raboternu hazal foreign a lot of communities in the world they didn't say why because the qurani I'm not allowed to bring hot Slavs truthfully because there is they are buried the their dead people everywhere that way you can not be pure and that's why it's make you one opportunity to be another Simpson the meaning that you cannot break it off and you might you must take it for all of your your life but we should know two things first of all there was a lot of Nazarene we don't know it but it's not published but yes there was in his room in in ham Israeli was one of the the reasoning he was Nazir he was the son of the harosh he was one of the biggest Nazir there is a list very long list besides it in Egypt there was Noah movement a movement of hasidim it's called the old session of the hasid they were nazirin the one is rashim Sean in Egypt there was they were they act very Holier and they keep themselves from few things and it was we don't know a lot about it but we know that this is the order this is a Mitzvah when we should understand it and and understand this is the like the rambam says this is the opportunity to bring the spiritual side of the amisrael of all of the the human being which is the prophetic to became to this world so we have an Israel we have dolador that was in Israel but there was that wasn't because they were in and also those that what was in Earth Israel not all of listen it's not Mitzvah that you have to do and so how come the reason okay we should know that the result there was a the first in Cuba Lim like a rabiosafe Angelico the result always Torah all of his Kabbalah fitting becoming from dessert there is part in the sword it's called idra of the Nazir that was the that's why the remark another base of the Rizal was the Kabbalah of the ramban the brother the two brothers the holy Brothers the one nazirim abiakov and his brother and they was in the old Generations they were very holiest and that's why they can become a Nazir Ariza were here in erit Israel only for one one and a half year I think if there was another time maybe the result also will become a Nazir because we know it's fat in his generation there was a nazirim in spot there was a very big it was yes so how come the result I don't know but I think he wasn't surely was it against it because the Mitzvah but why he didn't became a Nazir this is so do you recommend it for other people I recommend other people to to first of all to try and to understand the meaning and the the meaning of the al-hot to learn the al-hot I recommend everybody to learn about it I have two to having him to friends that they are very genius and very Holier and they too need the rim the two of them are nazareem they wrote books first of all the books nazirolohim it's called and the second it's called awesome these two books they are a misc with all the asur and muta all the Allah of and I think we should learn about it because even we don't we're learning we're going to learn about it yes you know how come wrote only foreign they asked this question and he doesn't give an answer you bring all the places speak about and you bring Allah and he says I don't have an answer any answer about this question because I don't know how come didn't wrote Allah because we need this a practical Allah but yes if someone feel that you want you know what there is a lot of question in the general the old generation about someone to take on himself a lot of people come came to yourself or other rabbi people that were like in in hodu or in Nepal or thing like this they want they they take on themselves uh why because they feel when they read on the Mitzvah they feel the spiritual side the the spiritual energy that this Mitzvah bring to yourself and it's very holy Mitzvah and we want there's that Hashem that we will have the cover of Amen so first of all I want to invite you to our share 7 15 in the morning okay we have we have like 80 people live and thousands of people watch around the world okay would you join us maybe one day is that Hashem yeah maybe speak a live that's one thing the other thing I want to ask you this doesn't have to be on camera but you could leave it on camera because we have an artist that does things and I'm interviewing you and people are going to know who you are is it okay to use you your face as one of the one of the pieces of Art okay thank you a lot this is amen amen thank you all right let me show you some uh this is it you're not allowed to say I'm not gonna even say the word they know how to say wow it's unbelievable okay five years worth okay foreign