תלמוד על נזיר 2:1

From here⁵⁸Possibly one should read מִן הָדָא “from the following.” One starts the discussion of the nazir in perpetuity., “if his hair became heavy”: Rebbi⁵⁹The Mishnah, which states that a nazir in perpetuity can bring the required sacrifices in order to shave his hair only if it really is heavy, follows Rebbi.. For Rebbi Jeremiah said in the name of Rebbi Immi: The words of Rebbi: A nazir in perpetuity shaves once in twelve months. The words of the Sages: A nazir in perpetuity sometimes shaves every thirty days⁶⁰As stated in Mishnah 3, this is the minimum period for a vow of nazir and is automatically assumed to be the period intended if nothing else is specified., sometimes once in twelve months. Rebbi Hila in the name of Rebbi Assi⁶¹This is an intrusion of a Babylonian text added by the corrector. His name in the Yerushalmi usually is: R. Yasa.: It says so⁶²Perhaps one should read: מתניתא אמרה כן “The Mishnah said so.”: ⁶³Mishnah 1:4.“I am a nazir like the hair on my head, like the dust of the earth, or like the sand of the sea. He is a nazir in perpetuity and shaves every thirty days. Rebbi says, this one does not shave every thirty days,” but once in twelve months. “Who is one who shaves every thirty days? If he says, I am obligated for nezirut like the hair on my head, like the dust of the earth, or like the sand of the sea.⁶⁴Rebbi agrees that an unspecified period of nezirut is 30 days. He requires the vow to state that the person making the vow intends a multitude of vows (each one implying a major expense for three sacrifices). But a reference to the hair on his head is for him a reference to a big tuft of hair, just as a reference to the dust of the earth is to a mound of earth. The Sages hold that the language used implies a reference to a multitude of separate things (hairs, dust particles, sand grains).” Rebbi Ze‘ira said, they differ if it was not made explicit. Where do we hold? If he says, “the fullness of my hair”, everybody agrees that he shaves once every thirty days. If he says, “the number of the hairs on my head,” everybody agrees that he shaves after twelve months⁶⁵It seems that the text is corrupt and the statements should be interchanged. If he says “the fulness of my head”, he refers to the growth on his head as one entity, implying an indefinite duration of his vow but no obligation for any particular Temple ceremony. He may shave his hair after 12 months, provided he offers the three prescribed sacrifices. But if he refers to the “number of hairs on his head”, he refers to a very great number of separate neziriot, and he can fulfill his obligation only by always offering his sacrifices at the earliest possible moment, after 30 days. He must shave every 30 days.. But we must hold that he says “like hair”. Rebbi says, “the fullness of my hair”. But the rabbis say, he means “the number of the hairs on my head.”⁶⁶This confirms the correction made in the preceding Note. And here, why? Why did the man not make the vow? He only encourages himself to avoid prohibitions⁶⁷While it is clear that for the rabbis he may shave after 30 days, it is not clear whether he is obligated for more than one period. Maybe he is not a nazir in perpetuity.. In addition, from the following: ⁶⁸Babli 8b, Tosephta 1:3. In these sources: כהלקטי קיץ וכשבילי שמיטה “the heaps of figs and the pathways of the Sabbatical” (when everybody is permitted to enter any field at any time.)“Rebbi Jehudah added: If he said, like that which is collected in the fig harvest, or like sheaves in a Sabbatical year, or like stars in the sky, he is a nazir in perpetuity and shaves every thirty days.” Could you say that Rebbi Jehudah follows the rabbis? He holds with Rebbi, as Rebbi Jehudah added: ⁶⁹In the Babli, 4b, the statement is attributed to Rebbi. In Tosephta Soṭah 3:16: R. Jehudah the Prince (= Rebbi). In Mekhilta deR. Ismael, Širah 2: R. Jehudah; Mekhilta deR.Simeon ben Ioḥai, p. 75: R. Jehudah the Prince. The Yerushalmi rejects the attribution to Rebbi. Since R. Jehudah admits that a nazir in perpetuity shaves only once a year, he must agree with Rebbi.“Absalom was a nazir in perpetuity and shaved every twelve months.” What is the reason? Because of nezirut. But that would mean for the rabbis that he shaved every thirty days; that is what we have stated: ⁷⁰Mishnah 2:5.“I am a nazir the house full, or a chest full. One checks him out.⁷¹One has to ask him what he meant before deciding his status.” It was stated on that: He shaves every thirty days. But here he said, he shaved every twelve months⁷²Since it was stated that for the rabbis of Mishnah 5, he shaves every 30 days even if he vowed nezirut in perpetuity, it follows that R. Ze‘ira could not be correct when he stated that the rabbis agree that “the fullness of my hair” implies even for the rabbis that he only shaves every 12 months since there is no visible difference between “the fullness of my hair” and “a chest full”..