Nazir (Talmud)

Nazir
Tractate of the Talmud
English:Nazirite
Seder:Nashim
Number of mishnahs:60
Chapters:9
Babylonian Talmud pages:66
Jerusalem Talmud pages:47
Tosefta chapters:6
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Nazir (Hebrew: נזיר) is a treatise of the Mishnah and the Tosefta and in both Talmuds, devoted chiefly to a discussion of the laws of the Nazirite laid down in Numbers 6:1-21. In the Tosefta its title is Nezirut ("Nazariteness"). In most of the editions of the Mishnah, this treatise is the fourth in the order Nashim, and it is divided into 9 chapters, containing 48 paragraphs in all.