Nazir 5:7 - 6:1

ראה את הכוי six people who saw the bearded dear or antelope/Koy and one of them said: “Behold, I am a Nazirite if this is a beast of chase,” and the second said: “Behold, I am a Nazirite if it is not a beast of chase,” and the third said: “Behold, I am a Nazirite if it is of the genus of cattle,” and the fourth said: “Behold, I am a Nazirite if it is not of the genus of a cattle,” and the fifth said: “Behold, I am a Nazirite if this is a beast of chase and a genus of cattle,” and the sixth said: “Behold, I am a Nazirite if this is neither a beast of chase or of the genus of cattle,” and three others came in a general way and one of them said to those other six: “Behold, I am a Nazirite if one of you is a Nazirite,” and the second said: “Behold, I am a Nazirite if none of you are a Nazirite,” and the third said: “Behold, I am a Nazirite if all of you are Nazirites,” all of them are Nazirites – the first six and the latter three. According to the School of Shammai, they are definitive Nazirites, for a Naziriteship in error is a Nazirite. But according to the School of Hillel, they are doubtful Nazirites because the bearded dear or antelope/Koy is doubtfully of the genus of cattle and doubtfully a beast of chase and doubtfully a creature of its own.

שלשה מינים אסורין בנזיר הטומאה – as it is written (Numbers 6:5): “no razor shall touch his head.”

והיוצא מן הגפן – as for example, moist/fresh and dry grapes, the exterior and interior [of grapes] combine to make olive’s bulk to be flogged for them [by violating consumption of these things].

אינו חייב עד שיאכל מן הענבים כזית – and the same law applies regarding the measure for drinking up to an olive’s bulk for since it is written (Numbers 6:3): “nor eat fresh or dried,” we derive from it – just as “eating” is up to an olive’s bulk, so also, “drinking” is up to an olive’s bulk.

משנה ראשונה עד שישתה רביעית יין – but the earlier version of the Mishnah is the opposite as we learn that we derive “eating” from “drinking” for the measure of ‘drinking” for a Nazirite [that is prohibited] is a Revi’it/one-quarter of a LOG (i.e., a LOG equals the volume of six eggs or a bottom of two fingers by two with the height of one and five-sixth of a finger) that we derive from [the analogy of] (Leviticus 10:9): “Drink no wine or other intoxicant, [you and your sons] שכרשכר (Numbers 6:3): “he shall not drink vinegar of wine or of any other intoxicant,” from the Temple (see Leviticus 10:9 above). And just as the measurement of the prohibition of “drinking,” is one-quarter of a LOG, so also, the measurement of [prohibited] eating is one-quarter of a LOG.”

אפילו שרה פתו ביין ויש בה כדי לצרף כזית חייב – for Rabbi Akiva holds that the measurement of prohibition for a Nazirite whether in regard to “eating,” or “drinking,” is [the equivalent] of an olive’s bulk [collectively], and the permitted combines with that which is prohibited to complete up to the [obligated] measure, but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Akiva.