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מאשר חטא על הנפש. י"ל מלשון קולע אל השערה ולא יחטיא שהחטיא את הנפש ומנעה מן היין וקרוב הוא לדרשת רז"ל על שציער עצמו מן היין: מאשר חטא על הנפש, “for having sinned through contact with a corpse ”The incident is best compared to Judges 20,16: קולע אל השערה ולא יחטיא, “warriors accurate sling a stone and not to miss a hair that their arrow was aimed at.” Just as there are no warriors that are so accurate, so for a person when imbibing wine, it is impossible not to be affected by its effect on the body. In our verse, the Nazir, if he had been more circumspect would not have exposed himself to contact with a dead body. [His guilt, of course, was not intentional. Ed.]