Side Locks Vs The Vow of a Nazarite

Side Locks                            Levictus 19:27 The side locks are called for the jews  "payot" and come from a misinterpretation of  the commandment in the Torah. Leviticus 19:27 "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard." The forbidding of shaving the corners of the head was interpreted by the Mishnah as prohibiting the hair at the temples being cut so that the hairline was a straight line from behind the ears to the forehead; the corners - payot - were defined as the hair from around and above the ears, to the same level as the nose. Nowhere in that scripture did it tell them to make long locks on the sides of their head or for it to be equal to the nose. Also keep in mind it did not forbid them to cut their hair are beard. The word marred is an inflected form of the verb 'to mar'. Marred is usually used as a synonym for the word defaced, meaning to have a surface that is damaged or disfigured. Side locks are not biblical This picture above is a gross misinterpretation of what an Israelite looks like. Because the word of Yah has not been given to these impostors they tend to make up what the scriptures are saying. This is not an example of  Leviticus 19:27 at all.

Vow of a Nazarite                              Numbers 6 1 Then the Most High spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When either a man or woman consecrates an offering to take the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Most High, 3 he shall separate himself from wine and similar drink; he shall drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from similar drink; neither shall he drink any grape juice, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins. 4 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin. 5 ‘All the days of the vow of his separation no razor shall come upon his head; until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the Most High, he shall be set apart. Then he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. 6 All the days that he separates himself to the Most High he shall not go near a dead body. 7 He shall not make himself unclean even for his father or his mother, for his brother or his sister, when they die, because his separation to Yah is on his head. 8 All the days of his separation he shall be set apart to the Most High... Chapter 6 of Numbers contains the whole vow of the Nazarite. The vow of a NAZARITE When Israelites saw a person with long locks they knew immediately that this person has taken the vow of a Nazarite. They also knew he was set apart and did not drink wine, eat grapes or raisins, and no strong drink or grape juice.  The very fact that he would not let a razor touch his head  let people know he took his walk with Yah very serious.

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