Sanctification is a vital part of working together and being in healthy relationships with God and Man. The Nazarite vow is a self-imposed wilderness experience in which a person sets himself apart (sanctifies himself) to YHVH. Though the community is involved, the Nazarite vow is ultimately about self and one's own relationship with God, not the community. Man, woman, rich, poor, slave, or master... anyone can take a Nazarite vow. But unlike prophet, priest, and judge, a Nazarite has no inherent authority, no special role to play in the community.

Biblically, long hair is a symbol of submission to authority. I wonder what this implies for the Nazarite who is forbidden from cutting his hair.