Nazir 46A

רבי שמעון אומר: כיון שנזרק עליו אחד מן הדמים ⁠— הותר הנזיר לשתות ביין ולהיטמא למתים.

R' Shimon says: Once the blood of one of the offerings has been sprinkled on the nazirite’s behalf, the nazirite is permitted to drink wine and to contract ritual impurity imparted by a corpse. The rest of the ritual is not indispensable for his purification.

גמ׳ תנו רבנן: ״ואחר ישתה הנזיר יין״⁠ — אחר המעשים כולן, דברי רבי אליעזר. וחכמים אומרים: אחר מעשה יחידי.

Talmud: A baraita states: It states at the end of the passage dealing with naziriteship: “And after that the nazirite may drink wine” (Numbers 6:20), which means after all the actions, i.e., after he has sacrificed all the offerings and shaved, thereby completing the entire ritual of a nazirite. This is the statement of R' Eliezer. And the Rabbis say: After a single action. He may drink wine after sacrificing one offering, even if he has yet to shave, as shaving is not indispensable for being permitted to drink wine.

מאי טעמייהו דרבנן? כתיב הכא ״ואחר ישתה הנזיר יין״, וכתיב התם ״אחר התגלחו את נזרו״. מה התם ״אחר״⁠ — מעשה יחידי, אף כאן ״אחר״⁠ — מעשה יחידי.

The Talmud clarifies: What is the reason of the Rabbis? It is written here: “And after that the nazirite may drink wine,” and it is written there, in the previous verse: “And the priest should take the cooked foreleg…and place it on the palms of the nazirite after he has shaven his naziriteship” (Numbers 6:19). It is derived by verbal analogy: Just as there the term “after” means after a single action, i.e., shaving, here too, the term “after” means after a single action, sacrificing one offering.

אימא עד דאיכא תרווייהו! אי הכי, גזירה שוה למה לי?

The Talmud asks: Perhaps one can say that a nazirite is not permitted to drink wine until there are both actions, i.e., sacrificing an offering and shaving, as implied by a straightforward reading of the verse. The Talmud answers: If so, why do I need this verbal analogy? It must be teaching that a nazirite can drink wine after the performance of a single action.