נזיר א׳:ב׳ - א׳:ג׳

הריני נזיר מן החרצנים ומן הזגים – if he mentioned one of all of these, he is a Nazirite as if he said, “I have become a Nazirite,” unspecified. But because the it was necessary to teach at the end [of the Mishnah] that of an eternal/life-long Nazirite and a Nazirite [like]/in the status of Samson, all of the details of Naziriteship are not upon them, it teaches here that all of the details of Naziriteship are upon him.

מה בין נזיר עולם וכו' – Our Mishnah is deficient and should be read as follows: and if he took a vow to become an eternal Nazirite, behold, he is an eternal Nazirite. And what is the difference between an eternal/ life-long Nazirite and a Nazirite [like/ in the status of Samson? A life-long Nazirite, if his hair became too heavy, he lightens it with a razor from one twelve-month period to another that we derive from Absalom, who was a life-long Nazirite, as it is written concerning him (II Samuel 14:26): “When he cut his hair – he had to have it cut every year, for tit grew too heavy for him,” and it is written there (Leviticus 25:29): “the redemption period shall be a year.”

ואם נטמא טינו מביא קרבן טומאה – and even ab initio it is permissible to be defiled, for Samson would defile himself with the dead, and it is a well-known maxim, as it is taught, it he became ritually defiled, which implies indeed de-facto, but not ab initio, because the first clause [of the Mishnah] teaches concerning a life-long Nazirite – and if he became ritually defiled, the last clause [of the Mishnah] also [teaches] concerning a Nazirite in the status of Samson, “and if he became ritually defiled.”

סתם נזירות שלשים יום – as it is written (Numbers 6:5): “it shall remain consecrated [until the completion of his term as a nazirite of the LORD].” [The word] "יהיה"/it shall remain – in Gematria is thirty. From here, they relied to state that there is no Naziriteship less than thirty days.

הריני נזיר אחת גדולה – whether he said: “I will be a Nazirite for a long period of time,” or whether he said, “I will be a Nazirite for a short period of time,” or whether he said I will be a Nazir from now until [as long as it takes to get to[ the end of the world,” he practices Naziriteship for thirty days. And “from now until the end of the world,” as he states, this is what it implies: upon me this Naziriteship was long as if it from now until [as long as it takes to get to] the end of the world.

ה:ג הריני נזיר ויום אחד הריני נזיר אחת ומחצה הרי זה נזיר שתים – and this is its explanation: He said: I will be a Nazirite and one day, since he said, “I will be a Nazirite,” he accepted upon himself one [period of] Naziriteship and when he said more, “and one day,” behold, there is here another [period] of Naziriteship. For there is no Naziriteship less than thirty days, and similarly, also, when he said, “I will be a Nazirite and an additional hour” or “I will be a Nazirite, one has here two [periods] of Naziriteship where it is impossible to be a Nazirite for one hour or one-half of a [period of] Naziriteship that will not be a Naziiteship of thirty days, and because of this, he is a Nazirite for two [periods], and he shaes at the end of thirty days and then observes another [period] of Naziriteship.

הריני נזיר ל' יום ושעה אחת הרי זה נזיר ל' ואחד יום שאין נזירות לשעות – as it states (Numbers 6:5): “Throughout the term of his vow as nazirite” and he is as if he had said, “thirty one days,” and we don’t say that one hour that he stated is a [period of] Naziiteship of its own, for since one is able to combine it with the number of thirty that he mentioned first.