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Nazir 51: Dust to Dust
More with the gore. When does the dust from a decaying corpse impart impurity? Also, what about substances within a woman's body that are not of her body, and…
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Nazir 50: Melt the Fat Away
A gory section on "netzel," a measure of which would render the nazir (or others) impure. Basically decomposing elements of a dead body - which was essential…
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Nazir 49: What Will Become of the Torah?!
A focus on amud bet: When the nazir shaves on having become impure via 3 different ways of a dead body rendering one impure. And then the text lists many…
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Nazir 48: Parallels, Logic, Necessary Cases, and Drama
One long discussion on the daf... First, on the nazir who's not supposed to become impure, but when would he? Plus, what is the mechanism to derive these…
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Nazir 47: Miriam the Nezirah
The last mishnah of chapter 6: what if the nazir becomes impure in the process of bringing the post-nezirut offerings? Plus, the story of a nezirah who exactly…
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Nazir 46: Nezirut and Impediments to Completing It
A mishnah on the process of the sacrifices; A nazir who cooks the shelamim sacrifice, or overcooks it, and the kohen takes it with the unleavened bread, and…
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Nazir 45: The Lesson of Eyeliner and Blush
2 mishnayot - 1. On the sacrifices that the nazir must being as part of the process closing off the nezirut. Plus, why a female nezirah doesn't shave…
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Nazir 44: Shaving for Purity
The first Mishnah on the daf compares the three Nazir prohibitions and how each one has its own stringency. The second Mishnah describes how a tamei Nazir…
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Nazir 43: The Beheaded Kohen
What verse teaches the limitations on the kohanim about coming into contact with a dead body? The kohanim not only are not supposed to come in contact with…
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Nazir 42: If a Nazir Is Bald, Can He Shave?
Tongue in cheek: what really counts as shaving? How much hair can be left, with what tool, etc. Plus, 3 mishnayot: intent for hair removal is salient, dirt…
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Nazir 41: The Other Side
After exploring the opinion of the Rabbis on daf 40 the Gemara explores the opinion of Rabbi Eliezer and how he learns that a metzora must use a razor to…
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Nazir 40: A Nazir, a Metzora, and a Levite Walk into a Barbershop
A detour to a mishnah in the Tractate Negaim, which connects the nazir, the metzora (one with tzara'at), and Levites - who are all required to shave their…
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Nazir 39: Does Hair Grow from the Tip or the Root?
A new mishnah - shaving a nazir's head cancels the count of the 30 days of nezirut. Removing hair in any way means lashes, but the question is how does hair…
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Nazir 38: A Revi'it of White, a Revi'it of Red
The measure of a "revi'it" never includes a combination of permitted and prohibited foods, except for the case of nazir, which has an explicit comment in the…
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Nazir 37: Meat, Milk, and Grape Products
Rabbi Akiva teaches that the prohibited food combines with the permitted one to make the whole thing prohibited - specifically for the nazir, and he derives it…
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Nazir 36: A Recipe for Prohibited Soup
When permissable foods combine with grape products that are off-limits to a nazir - how do the combine (or not) to be the amount that is prohibited? The…
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Nazir 35: Two Grape-seeds and a Grape-skin
Details of what of grapes are prohibited to a nazir, including the minimum amount that would make the nazir obligated for violating his prohibition. Plus, a…
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Nazir 34: Grapes: Skins, Seeds, Twigs, and All
The Koi. A halakhic conundrum - is this animal a behamah (domesticated) or chayah (wild)? Plus, the context of people taking vows based on the halakhic status…
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Nazir 33: A Page with No Gemara?!
First, a mishnah - a brainteaser of 6 people who take conditional vows of nezirut, depending on determinable unknowns. The question of whether those vows kick…
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Nazir 32: It's Not the Staff That Sanctifies
One who vows to be a nazir, then regrets it, and wants out - but the sage he asks to dissolve the vow tells him he must continue. Plus, how this regret lines…
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Nazir 31: The Black Ox and the White Ox
What happens if you consecrate something in error? Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai dispute the outcome - not consecrated and consecrated, respectively. Also…
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Nazir 30: Wait for Elijah
Finishing chapter 4... with a new mishnah. A man can use his father nezirut funds for the final korbanot but a daughter cannot. But in general, a son cannot…
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Nazir 29: A Father's Vow of Nezirut for His Son
The Gemara presents a series of potential practical differences between the approaches of R. Yochanan (an inherited tradition - halakhah le-Moshe mi-Sinai) and…
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Nazir 28: Revoking a Wife's Vow and Making a Vow for a Son
A new mishnah: Can a husband still revoke his wife's vow of nezirut at the time that she's bringing the final sacrifices at the conclusion of her nezirut? In…
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Nazir 27: Sons and Fathers
R. Nachman's position on a designated animal that ends up being blemished - already consecrated for the nazir's offerings. Is it to be treated like an…
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Nazir 26: Exceptions Made for the Nazir Offerings
Unspecified funds - including the sin-offering funds - can be rededicated for voluntary offerings, with the nazir as an exception to the usual sin-offering…
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Nazir 25: It Is What It Is
More on specified (and unspecified) funds that have been set aside by one undertaking nezirut. The funds that were going to the sin-offering cannot be accessed…
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Nazir 24: Interrupting a Woman's Nezirut
A woman's vow of nezirut can be revoked by her husband up until the time that she brings the post-nezirut sacrifices. But what happens if she's consecrated…
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Nazir 23: Pure Motives
Can a person intentionally commit a sin but still perform a good dead? The Gemara explores how intentionality impacts the meaning of our good and bad deeds…
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Nazir 22: The Importance of Tone
More on a woman who vows to be a nezirah, and another woman says she'll follow in her footsteps - what happens to the vow of the second woman if the husband of…
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Nazir 21: The Conundrum of the Husband Who Joins His Wife's Nezirut
More on friends who join on to another person's vow of being a nazir. Does "And I" refer to the statement by the first person or that of the second person? Are…
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Nazir 20: Overhearing a Vow of Nezirut: Then What?
A new mishnah: when witnesses come to court to testify about another person's vow of nezirut. Plus contradictory witnesses. With a dispute between Beit Hillel…
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Nazir 19: Religious Bargaining
When nezirut is prevented or interrupted by impurity, when does the count begin? Of the 4 opinions, whom do we follow? Plus, an immediate new case of a woman…
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Nazir 18: Elegant Exegesis
The complications of different impurities affecting a nazir, and how he only needs to bring one korban to purify from all the impurity. Also, the dispute…
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Nazir 17: A Month in a Cemetery - Nazir or Not?
The ongoing dispute between R Yochanan and Resh Lakish, over the declaration of nezirut in the cemetery - when the vow takes effect. Also, more on the person…
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Nazir 16: A Contradiction in a Nazir's Terms
A new chapter! And 2 new mishnayot. Opening with the case of one who takes a vow of becoming a nazir, but without specifying the number of days - as compared…
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Nazir 15: To Contradict a Mishnah
A new mishnah: on a compound vow of becoming a nazir when a son is born to him, and also for 100 days. How do those two elements of the vow work together…
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Nazir 14: Nazir Teasers (as it were)
Someone who vows consecutive periods of nezirut, as well as a vow for when his son is born... The Gemara figures out how to play out those consecutive or…
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Nazir 13: Tips for Taking a Vow of Nezirut
A new mishnah - one who takes a vow to become a nazir once he has a son. The he has a son. He's a nazir. But other progeny would not make him a nazir. What…
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Nazir 12: For the Birds
Introducing a parallel to conditions in nezirut vows to the betrothal of a woman via a shaliach/emissary. Plus, a parallel to the birds to be designated for…
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Nazir 11: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts
Can a person vow a nedrei if nezirut for only one of the nezirut prohibitions? Was the language of becoming a Nazir part of colloquial speech?
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Nazir 10: The Talking Cow
When a vow for nezirut is conditioned upon an external event, such as the positioning of a cow or a door, and whether the vow will be upheld. Plus, the dispute…
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Nazir 9: People Know What a Nazir Is
Chapter 2: One who uses unusual expressions in taking on nezirut (for example, including refraining from dried figs in the vow), and whether that has impact on…
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Nazir 8: To Be a Nazir Forever
A new mishnah: One who takes on being a nazir using euphemistic language - may indeed take on nezirut for his whole life, with some question as to how often he…
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Nazir 7: Until the End of the World
3 mishnayot on vowing to become a nazir. First, how to specify the term of nezirut, and how the default remains 30 days. Plus, measuring distance between…
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Nazir 6: Growing Your Hair Long
More on the machloket between R. Matanah and Bar Peda. The practical difference between their views is one who becomes impure on the 30th day, because if it's…
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Nazir 5: How Long Nezirut?
On Avshalom, son of King David, and nazir. He cut his hair once a year, which is derived from a verse. Or was that every week?? Plus, a new mishnah: the…
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Nazir 4: Samson Didn't Vow
2 mishnayot - beginning with taking a vow like the nezirut of Shimshon (Samson), with different phrasings that all refer to him. But why use all the details?!…
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Nazir 3: Beauty Is as It Does
A note on Rivan, the son-in-law of Rashi, who takes his place, as it were, in Nazir. || Wording the vow to become a nazir - with a plan to become "beautiful."…
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Nazir 2: The Vow of the Nazir
An introduction to Nazir, including its placement in Seder Nashim, and following Nedarim. An introduction to chapter 1, including the biblical source for…
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Nedarim 91: Signs of an Affair
The case of a woman who says to and about her husband that he divorced her - is she to be believed? Also, narrative preceding halakhah with regard to the…
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Nedarim 90: Is Annulment Dependent on Revocation
The Gemara presents Rav Pappi’s version of the machloket between Rabbi Natan and the Chachamim. Plus the last Mishnah of our Masechet!
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Nedarim 89: The Vows That Can't Be Revoked
3 mishnayot, addressing how the father can revoke a daughter's vows, with what terms and what exception, what to pay attention to, etc. Plus, the 9 women whose…
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Nedarim 88: Can a Blind Man See?
When the sages contradict their own opinions, specifically via a parallel case if inadvertent homicide and a blind person, as compared to Nedarim. Also, a new…
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Nedarim 87: Missing Intel
The case of a man who discovers later that he didn't have all the details at the time he revoked a vow. With a parallel to tearing keriyah in mourning, and…
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Nedarim 86: Who Owns a Wife's Body?
In memory and tribute of our teacher Rabbi Moshe Kahn z"l || More on the question of a vow about something that doesn't yet exist, in parallel to a field that…
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Nedarim 85: Swearing Away the Future
A new mishnah - a woman who makes the things she produces off-limits from her father, brother, in-laws... The husband can revoke the vow. She can't take those…
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Nedarim 84: The Pool of Poor People
A woman who has sworn off benefit from people, and can still eat from the agricultural mitzvot of charity, but it doesn't mention ma'aser ani. But is that lack…
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Nedarim 83: If It's a Mitzvah, It's No Gift
What did R. Yochanan mean about partial revoking of vows? With the parallel to nezirut, and how it can't be separated in its vow. Plus, when a woman swears off…
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Nedarim 82: Combination Nedarim
More on the husband's revoking his wife's vows, and how he cannot do so when it comes to a vow she makes pertaining to a third party. Though when the vow can…