Talmud for Nazir 2:4

הֲרֵינִי נָזִיר עַל מְנָת שֶׁאֱהֵא שׁוֹתֶה יַיִן וּמִטַּמֵּא לְמֵתִים, הֲרֵי זֶה נָזִיר וְאָסוּר בְּכֻלָּן. יוֹדֵעַ אֲנִי שֶׁיֵּשׁ נְזִירוּת אֲבָל אֵינִי יוֹדֵעַ שֶׁהַנָּזִיר אָסוּר בְּיַּיִן, הֲרֵי זֶה אָסוּר. וְרַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן מַתִּיר. יוֹדֵעַ אֲנִי שֶׁהַנָּזִיר אָסוּר בְּיַּיִן אֲבָל סָבוּר הָיִיתִי שֶׁחֲכָמִים מַתִּירִים לִי מִפְּנֵי שֶׁאֵין אֲנִי יָכוֹל לִחְיוֹת אֶלָּא בְיַּיִן, אוֹ מִפְּנֵי שֶׁאֲנִי קוֹבֵר אֶת הַמֵּתִים, הֲרֵי זֶה מֻתָּר. וְרַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹסֵר:

(If one said:) "I shall be a Nazirite on condition that I (be permitted to) drink wine and become unclean to the dead," he becomes a Nazirite and is forbidden in all (that is forbidden to a Nazirite). [And in this, all concur, for he thereby makes a condition against what is written in the Torah; and if one makes a condition against what is written in the Torah, his condition is void.] (If one said: "I shall be a Nazirite," and then said:) "I knew that there was (such a thing as) Naziritism, but I did not know that a Nazirite was forbidden wine," he is forbidden (to drink wine). [For wine, shaving, and dead-body defilement, which are forbidden to a Nazirite — if one becomes a Nazirite in respect to one of them, he is a Nazirite in respect to all.] And R. Shimon permits it, [holding that he does not become a Nazirite unless he assumes Naziritism in respect to all.] (If one said: "I shall be a Nazirite," and then said:) "I knew that a Nazirite was forbidden wine, but I thought that the sages would permit it to me because I cannot live without wine," or "because I bury the dead" (i.e., that is my occupation), he is permitted, [this being in the class of "vows of constraint," one of the four classes of vows permitted by the sages (Nedarim 3:1-4).] And R. Shimon forbids it, [holding that the four types of vows permitted by the sages require consultation of a sage (for their absolution). The halachah is not in accordance with R. Shimon in these two cases in our Mishnah.]

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