and set it down in a cemetery, where nobody is found, and sound 1,000, i.e., many, shofar blasts over the course of 40 days. That man went and did this. The jug burst and the violent man died. The Talmud asks: What is the reason that shofarot are sounded when a decree of ostracism is pronounced? The shofarot allude to the fact that they extract punishment [shenifra’in] from the excommunicated person.
מאי תברא? אמר רב יצחק בריה דרב יהודה: תברי בתי רמי. דתניא, אמר רבן שמעון בן גמליאל: כל מקום ש״נתנו חכמים עיניהם״, או מיתה או עוני.
The Talmud asks further: What is the reason that broken blasts are sounded on the shofar when the excommunication is pronounced? Rav Yitzḥak, son of Rav Yehuda, said: It breaks tall buildings, i.e., a decree of ostracism can harm and break even the high and mighty, as it is taught in a baraita: Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel said: Wherever it says that the rabbis set their eyes in anger upon a particular person, it causes either death or poverty.
והנזיר והמצורע מטומאתו לטהרתו. בעא מיניה רבי ירמיה מרבי זירא: בשלא היה להם פנאי, או דלמא אף בשהיה להם פנאי?
§ It is taught in the Mishnah: And the nazirite whose term of naziriteship ended on the intermediate days of a Festival, and the metzora who needs to purify himself on the intermediate days and must shave his entire body in order to leave his state of ritual impurity and regain his ritual purity, these people are permitted to cut their hair on the intermediate days of the Festival because they were not able to do so on the eve of the Festival. R' Yirmeya raised a question before R' Zeira: Is this allowance limited to the case where they did not have the time to cut their hair before the Festival, as it was prohibited for them to do so beforehand? Or perhaps they may cut their hair even in a case where they had the time to do so beforehand.