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הרי זו סופגת את הארבעים. הפר לה בעלה והיא לא ידעה שהפר לה, והיתה שותה יין ומיטמאה למתים — אינה סופגת את הארבעים.
she incurs [sofeget] the 40 lashes, the penalty for one who transgresses a Torah prohibition, as she violated the terms of her nazirite vow. If her husband nullified the vow for her, but she did not know that he nullified it for her, and she drank wine or became impure through contact with the dead, she does not incur the 40 lashes. She did not commit a transgression, as her nazirite vow was nullified.
ואי אמרת מפר למתענה ואין מפר לשאין מתענה, דלמא מן יין דאית לה צערא — הפר לה, מן חרצן ומן זג — לא הפר לה, דהא לא אית לה צערא. ותספוג את הארבעים!
And if you say that the husband can nullify the vow with regard to the loaf that would cause her to deprive herself, but he cannot nullify the vow with regard to the loaf that would not cause her to deprive herself, the same reasoning should apply to a nazirite vow: Perhaps the husband nullified for her the vow that rendered wine forbidden to her, as she suffers pain when she refrains from drinking it. But as for her vow that rendered grape seeds and grape skins forbidden to her, he did not nullify it for her, as she suffers no pain when she abstains from them. And since even grape seeds and grape skins are forbidden to a nazirite, if the woman ate of them, she should receive the 40 lashes, even if her husband nullified her vow.
אמר רב יוסף: אין נזירות לחצאין.
Rav Yosef said: Here it is different, as naziriteship cannot take effect partially. Since one cannot be a nazirite and accept only some of the prohibitions of naziriteship, the husband’s nullification cancels the entire vow. In the case of an ordinary vow, on the other hand, the husband can nullify only the part that causes his wife suffering.