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גמ׳ תנא: במה דברים אמורים — בנזירות מועטת, אבל בנזירות בת שנה — אוכל בקדשים לאחר שתי שנים,
Talmud: The Sage taught: In what case is this statement of the Mishnah said? With regard to a short naziriteship of 30 days. However, with regard to a naziriteship of a year, he partakes of sacrificial food only after two years. He cannot shave until a year has passed, in case he is not a metzora; he may shave the second time only a year later, in case he was impure during the 1st year and this second year was his naziriteship observed in purity. At this stage he may partake of sacrificial meat, for if he was a full-fledged metzora he has shaved twice.
ושותה יין ומיטמא למתים לאחר ארבע שנים.
Yet if the first two shavings were for his tzara'at, he has not shaved for his naziriteship at all, and therefore he must observe a third year of naziriteship and shave. He then must observe another year of naziriteship and shave again, as perhaps his third shaving was for impurity and the 4th will be for his naziriteship in purity. And consequently he may drink wine and become impure from the dead only after 4 years.
ותני עלה: ומגלח ארבע תגלחיות. תגלחת ראשונה — מביא צפורים,
And it is taught with regard to the halakha of the Mishnah (Tosefta 6:1): And he shaves with 4 separate acts of shaving, each time for its own reason. How so? For his first shaving, after the 30 days of an unspecified naziriteship or at the end of the period he vowed to observe naziriteship, he brings two birds of a metzora: One is slaughtered over spring water and the other is sent away (Leviticus 14:4–7).