Why don't some Jews cut their hair?

Why did Sampson's mother not cut his hair when she sent him to live with the priests? what is the significance of this?

Why don't some Jews cut their hair?

why do they have to?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson

The Philistines approach Delilah and induce her to try to find the secret of Samson's strength. Samson tells her that he can be bound with fresh bowstrings. She does so while he sleeps, but when he wakes up he snaps the strings. She persists, and he tells her he can be bound with new ropes. She binds him with new ropes while he sleeps, and he snaps them, too. She asks again, and he says he can be bound if his locks are woven together. She weaves them together, but he undoes them when he wakes. Eventually Samson tells Delilah that he will lose his strength with the loss of his hair. Delilah calls for a servant to shave Samson's seven locks. Since that breaks the Nazarite oath, Yahweh leaves him, and Samson is captured by the Philistines. They gouge out his eyes. After being blinded, Samson is brought to Gaza, imprisoned, and put to work grinding grain.

Why don't some Jews cut their hair?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazarite

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Why don't some Jews cut their hair?

Because they like it long. (Did you perhaps mean Simpson when you wrote Sampson?)

Why don't some Jews cut their hair?

some Orthodox Jews keep their side locks or peyos long, along with growing a beard.

this comes from a commandment in Leviticus "you shall not round off the sides of your hair (sideburns)", which has been interpreted to mean, for men, growing out the hair in front of the ears.

for more information, see the link below.

http://judaism.about.com/library/3_askra...