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יכול לא יהו נזירין — תלמוד לומר: ״איש״! האיתמר אמר רבי יוחנן: הלכה היא בנזיר.
One might have thought that non-Jews cannot be nazirites at all. The verse therefore states: “Man,” to teach that they can become nazirites. The Talmud answers: Wasn’t it stated that R' Yoḥanan said that the halakha that a son may use his father’s nazirite offerings is a halakha transmitted to Moses at Sinai with regard to a nazirite? Since this halakha does not appear in the Torah, the verse cannot be coming to exclude it.
אי הכי ״איש כי יפלא נדר בערכך״, בערכין, למה לי? מכדי האיתקש ערכין לנדרים, דאמר קרא ״איש כי יפלא נדר בערכך״, והתניא גבי נדרים: ״איש״. מה תלמוד לומר ״איש איש״ — לרבות את הגוים שהן נודרים נדרים ונדבות כישראל.
§ The Talmud asks: If so, why do I need the verse: “When a man should clearly utter a vow of persons to YHWH, according to your valuation” (Leviticus 27:2), stated with regard to valuations, from which it is derived that non-Jews are included in the halakhot of valuations? After all, aren’t valuations juxtaposed to vows, as the verse states: “When a man should clearly utter a vow of persons to YHWH, according to your valuation.” And isn’t it taught in a baraita with regard to a verse dealing with vows: “Any man [ish] from the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, who sacrifices his offering, whether it be any of their vows, or any of their gift offerings, which are sacrificed to YHWH as a burnt-offering” (Leviticus 22:18), what is the meaning when the verse states the extra emphasis: “Any man [ish ish]”? The baraita explains: This serves to include the non-Jews, that they can take a vow for vow offerings and gift offerings like a Jew. It can be derived from this juxtaposition that non-Jews are included in the halakhot of valuations.