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שאני הכא דאמר רחמנא: ״וטמא ראש נזרו״, מי שנזרו תלוי לו בראשו. מיתיבי: נזיר שכלו לו ימיו — אסור לגלח ולשתות יין ולטמא למתים, ואם גילח ושתה יין ונטמא למתים — הרי זה סופג את הארבעים. תיובתא.
The Talmud answers: Here, with regard to impurity, it is different, as God states in the Torah: “And he defile his consecrated head” (Numbers 6:9), which indicates that even one whose naziriteship is dependent only upon his head, i.e., one who has completed his naziriteship other than shaving, is liable to receive lashes if he contracts impurity. The Talmud raises an objection to the statement of R' Yosei, son of R' Ḥanina, from a baraita: A nazirite whose days are completed is forbidden to shave, and is forbidden to drink wine, and is forbidden to contract impurity from corpses. And if he did shave, or drink wine, or contract impurity from corpses, he incurs the 40 lashes administered to one who violates a Torah prohibition. This baraita clearly states that he is flogged for any of the 3 prohibitions, which is a conclusive refutation of the statement of R' Yosei, son of R' Ḥanina.
מתני׳ ״הריני נזיר לכשיהא לי בן״ ו״נזיר מאה יום״, נולד לו בן עד שבעים — לא הפסיד כלום. לאחר שבעים — סותר שבעים. שאין תגלחת פחות משלשים יום.
Mishnah: In the case of one who said: I am hereby a nazirite when I will have a son, and he added: I am hereby a nazirite from now for 100 days, and he then began observing the 100 days of his naziriteship, if a son is born to him up to 70 days from the start of his naziriteship he has not lost anything. He pauses from the observance of the naziriteship of 100 days and observes the 30-day term for his son. He then completes the 30 or more days left of his initial naziriteship. However, if his son is born after 70 days, this negates the first 70 days, and he must observe a full 100 days after he completes the naziriteship for his son. The reason is that here, he is unable to merely complete the remaining days of his initial naziriteship after shaving at the completion of the naziriteship for his son, since shaving cannot be performed after a period of less than 30 days.