NUM46 What is the meaning of the verse, “He [the Nazarite—See Numbers 6:11] shall atone for him for having sinned against the soul”? Against which soul did he sin? Rather, because he deprived himself of wine. Now, there is an a priori argument: If the one who deprived himself only of wine is called “a sinner,” then how much the more so someone who deprives himself of all things. Babylonian Talmud Nazir 19a