Nazir 8:1 - 8:2

שני נזירים שאמר להם אחד כו' – and they are silent for if they contradict, he is not believed, for one witness in a place where they contradict him is not believed, and our Mishnah speaks as for example that this person, the witness was not with them. But rather, he said, “I saw from afar defilement that was cast between them, that if the witness was with them in their place, it would be a case of uncertainty concerning ritual impurity in the public domain. And uncertain ritual purity in the public domain, in its uncertain state is [spiritually] pure, for uncertainty concerning ritual impurity we derive from the Sotah (i.e., the woman who is suspected of infidelity by her husband), as it is written regarding her (Numbers 5:13): “and she keeps secret the fact that she has defiled herself [without being forced, and there was no witness against her], and they were not other than her, and the person who engaged in sexual relations with her, and her uncertain state is seen as defiled. But whenever that they are more than two [people], even within the house, her uncertain state is seen as pure, and this is like uncertainty regarding ritual impurity in the public domain. Therefore, one must say that the witness was not with them in their place at the time of the uncertainty regarding ritual impurity.

וסופרים ל' יום – as for example when both made the vow of Naziriteship together and they took a vow of an undefined period of Naziriteship (i.e., thirty days). And the same law applies if both of them had taken a vow together and delineated their period of Naziriteship for a limited period, for after they had brought the sacrifice for defilement and the sacrifice of purity, they return and count the limited time period for their Naziriteship, and they set aside the sacrifice of spiritual purity.

וקרבן טומאה ספק – the sin-offering of fowl that comes for uncertain defilement and is not eaten.

אלא מביא חטאת עוף – for an uncertain defilement of Naziriteship. And he doesn’t bring the guilt-offering according to the Rabbis who state above that he brought his sin offering and did not bring his guilt-offering, he counts [his period of Naziriteship].

נמצא זה מביא קרבנותיו לחצאים – if he is a pure Nazirite, for the first burnt-offering was obligatory and now, he is offering the sin – offering and the peace-offering.

אבל הודו חכמים לבן זומא – and they did not take into consideration on one who brings his sacrifices in bits and pieces, and the Halakha is according to Ben Zoma.

נזיר שהוא טמא בספק ומוחלט בספק – uncertain if he had been defiled by contact with the dead and uncertain if he was a declared leper.

אוכל בקדשים אחר ששים יום – but not before then, for someone who is uncertain leper, he or a witness that brings his atonement is forbidden to eat Holy Things but because of being an uncertain impure Nazirite, he is not forbidden from eating Holy Things, for he is not called someone lacking atonement who is forbidden to eat Holy Things other than a person whose defilement comes out upon him from his body. How so? He took the Nazirite [vow] for thirty days, and on the first day, there occurred to him an uncertain defilement through contact with the dead and uncertain leprosy He sprinkles and repeats it and immerses and is purified from his defilement from contact with the dead, as if he came to shave/cut his hair according to the law of an impure Nazirite, or according to the law of a leper who became healed. But, he is not able to shave/cut his hair until the thirty days from the day that he took the vow of Nazirite, lest he is a pure Nazirite, and he is forbidden to shave until the fulfillment of the days of his Naziriteship and until he brings his sacrifices, and after thirty days, he shaves the uncertain shaving of leper. Uncertain shaving of defilement of a Nazirite and uncertainty shaving of someone pure, and he brings two birds according to the law of the shaving for a declared leper. And the sin offering of a fowl that comes on the uncertainty, because of the uncertainty of his being a defiled Nazirite, and the burnt offering of an animal because of his uncertain status as a pure Nazirite, and even though he doesn’t bring the rest of the sacrifices of someone who is a pure person who has shaved, we state that if he shaved on one of the three sacrifices, he has fulfilled his religious duty. And he makes a condition upon it that if he is not a pure Nazirite, that the burnt offering will be a free-will donation, and the law of a declared leper that requires two shavings – one after the completion of his declaration when he became healed from his leprosy. And one after the days of his counting, after he counted seven days from the first shaving, as it is written (Leviticus 14:9): “On the seventh day he shall shave off all of his hair – [of head, beard and eyebrows].”But the one who is an uncertain Nazirite is not able to shave. Therefore, he must wait thirty days of uncertain pure Naziriteship and then he takes a shave of uncertainty for the days of his counting of the leper and the uncertainty of a pure Naziriteship. And he brings a burnt offering of cattle of uncertain Naziriteship in order to shave on the sacrifices and make a condition upon it. And on the day after his shaving, he brings the sacrifice of the leper to permit Holy Things to him. And he brings the sin offering of fowl for the sin-offering of cattle does not come on that which is uncertain. And he doesn’t bring the guilt offering. For the guilt offering does not prevent him from eating Holy Things, and it is found that after sixty [days], he eats Holy Things, for then he brings his atonement of the uncertainty of being declared, but he is still forbidden to drink wine and to defile himself through contact with the dead for perhaps he was a declared leper. But the shaving for a leper does not count for him, neither for the shaving of a pure Nazirite, nor for the shaving of an impure Nazirite, and he still needs two shavings: one for the impure Nazirite and one for the pure Nazirite. And if he was a declared leper, all what he counted for the days of his Naziriteship do not count for him. For the days of his declared [leprosy] and the days of his counting do not count for him. And he needs to count another thirty days and after thirty days, he shaves from being an uncertain impure Nazirite and an uncertain pure Nazirite. And he brings the sin-offering of fowl on being an uncertain impure Nazirite and the burnt offering of cattle for being an uncertain pure Nazirite, in order that he can shave on the sacrifice and makes a condition upon it. But he is still prohibited to drink wine or to defile himself through contact with the dead. For perhaps he was a declared leper and therefore, the first two shavings did not count for him for the sake of his Naziriteship, not for defilement nor for purity, for perhaps he was an impure Nazirite. And the third shaving is the shaving of defilement. Therefore, he is required to count another thirty days of pure Naziriteship, and he brings the sacrifice of a pure Nazirite and makes the condition, and afterwards is permitted to drink wine and to become defiled through contact with the dead. And similarly, if he took a vow of Naziriteship for a year, and something happened to him at the beginning of his year of uncertain defilement through contact with the dead, and uncertain leprosy, he counts a full year and shaves the shaving of uncertain defilement and uncertain purity and uncertain leprosy, ad counts a second year and shaves and brings his atonement and eats Holy Things [if he is a Kohen] and counts another two years prior to his drinking wine and defiling himself through contact with the dead.