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כסיפא ליה מילתא, אמר ״הריני נזיר לכשיהא לפלוני בן״, ושמע חבירו ואמר ״ואני״, מהו? מי אמרינן: שלא בפניו, אנפשיה קאמר, או דילמא הכי קאמר ליה: רחימנא ליה כוותיך. תיבעי.
should be understood in light of the fact that the matter is embarrassing for him, the second person is likely to mean that he will become a nazirite upon the birth of a child to the first person, as he will be embarrassed to seem indifferent about the birth of the child to the person standing before him, then the following question arises: If one said: I am hereby a nazirite when so-and-so will have a son, and another heard and said: And I, what is the halakha? Do we say that since the second person did not vow in front of the subject of the first person’s vow, he therefore speaks of himself when he says: And I, meaning that he will be a nazirite when he has a son of his own? Or perhaps this is what he is saying to him: I love him as you do, and I too will be a nazirite when he has a son. As in the previous cases, no answer was found for this question, and the dilemma remains unresolved.
מתני׳ ״הריני נזיר, ונזיר כשיהיה לי בן״, התחיל מונה את שלו, ואחר כך נולד לו בן — משלים את שלו, ואחר כך מונה את של בנו. ״הריני נזיר כשיהיה לי בן, ונזיר״, התחיל מונה את שלו ואחר כך נולד לו בן — מניח את שלו, ומונה את של בנו, ואחר כך משלים את שלו.
Mishnah: In a case where one said: I am hereby a nazirite now, and I will be a nazirite when I will have a son, and he began counting his own term of naziriteship, i.e., his first vow, and afterward in the middle of this naziriteship period a son was born to him, he first completes his own initial term of naziriteship and afterward he counts the term of naziriteship he vowed on the condition of the birth of his son. However, if he reversed the order and said: I am hereby a nazirite when I will have a son, and I am hereby a nazirite, and he began counting his own term of naziriteship and afterward, during this period, a son was born to him, he sets aside his own term of naziriteship and counts that which he vowed on condition of the birth of his son, and afterward he completes his own term of naziriteship.