## Nazir Daf 15b

###### Nazir 15b:1
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אַבָּא שָׁאוּל אוֹמֵר: אֲפִילּוּ לֹא סִיפֵּר קוֹדֶם הָרֶגֶל — מוּתָּר לְסַפֵּר אַחַר הָרֶגֶל, שֶׁכְּשֵׁם שֶׁמִּצְוַת שְׁלֹשָׁה מְבַטֶּלֶת גְּזֵירַת שִׁבְעָה — כָּךְ מִצְוַת שִׁבְעָה מְבַטֶּלֶת גְּזֵירַת שְׁלֹשִׁים.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Abba Shaul says: Even** if he did **not cut his hair before the pilgrimage Festival, it is permitted** for him **to cut his hair after the pilgrimage Festival.** His reasoning is **that just as** the **mitzva of three voids** the rabbinic **decree of seven,** as was taught before; **so** the **mitzva of seven voids** the rabbinic **decree of thirty.** Since he completed the observance of the seven days of mourning before the Festival, he need not observe the thirty days of mourning.


###### Nazir 15b:2
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מַאי טַעְמָא דְּאַבָּא שָׁאוּל? לָאו מִשּׁוּם דְּקָסָבַר שְׁבִיעִי עוֹלֶה לְכָאן וּלְכָאן? דִּלְמָא עַד כָּאן לָא קָאָמַר אַבָּא שָׁאוּל אֶלָּא בַּאֲבֵילוּת שִׁבְעָה דְּרַבָּנַן, אֲבָל בְּנָזִיר דְּאוֹרָיְיתָא — לָא!

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara asks: **What is the rationale of Abba Shaul** for his opinion that if he observed seven days of mourning before the Festival commenced the thirty-day mourning period is voided? **Isn’t it because he holds** that the **seventh** day **counts for here and there,** i.e., the seventh day is considered both the end of the seven days and the start of the thirty days of mourning, so he had already begun observing his thirty days of mourning before the start of the Festival? This ruling may be the basis for the ruling of Rav. The Gemara rejects this: This does not support Rav, since **perhaps Abba Shaul was saying** his ruling that the same day counts for both here and there **only with regard to the mourning** of **seven** days, which is **by rabbinic law, but with regard to a nazirite,** whose obligation is **by Torah law,** he would **not** say so.


###### Nazir 15b:3
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אֶלָּא רַב דְּאָמַר כְּרַבִּי יוֹסֵי. דְּתַנְיָא, רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר: שׁוֹמֶרֶת יוֹם כְּנֶגֶד יוֹם שֶׁשָּׁחֲטוּ וְזָרְקוּ עָלֶיהָ בַּשֵּׁנִי שֶׁלָּהּ,

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rather, Rav spoke in accordance with** the opinion of **Rabbi Yosei, as it is taught** in a *baraita* that **Rabbi Yosei says: A woman who observes** a clean **day for** each **day** she experiences a discharge is a woman who discharges blood for one or two days at a time when she does not expect her menstrual period. The case under discussion is one where she experienced a discharge for one day and **they slaughtered** a Paschal offering **and sprinkled** the blood **for her on her second** day, after she immersed in a ritual bath. At that point, it is unclear whether she will remain clean of discharges for the remainder of the day, in which case she is retroactively pure from the time she immersed and may eat the Paschal offering at night, or whether she will experience a discharge of blood during the day, in which case her immersion is retroactively invalid and she was impure the entire time.


###### Nazir 15b:4
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וְאַחַר כָּךְ רָאֲתָה — הֲרֵי זוֹ אֵינָהּ אוֹכֶלֶת, וּפְטוּרָה מִלַּעֲשׂוֹת פֶּסַח שֵׁנִי.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**And after that, she saw** blood, thereby retroactively clarifying that at the time the Paschal offering was slaughtered she was unfit to partake of it. The *halakha* is that **she may not eat** from the Paschal lamb due to her ritual impurity, **but she is exempt from observing** the **second *Pesaḥ*,** which is observed by those who did not sacrifice the Paschal offering on the first Pesaḥ. The reason is that since she was pure when they slaughtered the Paschal offering on her behalf, she has fulfilled the obligation of the offering, despite the fact that she became impure and was unable to eat the offering.


###### Nazir 15b:5
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מַאי טַעְמָא דְּרַבִּי יוֹסֵי, לָאו מִשּׁוּם דְּקָסָבַר מִקְצָת הַיּוֹם כְּכוּלּוֹ? מִמַּאי? וְדִלְמָא מִשּׁוּם דְּקָסָבַר מִכָּאן וּלְהַבָּא הוּא מְטַמֵּא.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara clarifies this: **What is the rationale of Rabbi Yosei** for his opinion that she is exempt from observing the second *Pesaḥ*? **Isn’t it because he holds** that the legal status of **part of the day is like** that **of an entire** day? Since she was pure for part of the day, it is considered as though she was pure the entire day. The Gemara rejects this: **From where** do you know that this is the rationale? **Perhaps** it is **because** Rabbi Yosei **holds** that **one becomes impure from now and onward.** He holds that the impurity of a *zava* starts only from the moment she had a discharge of blood, but she is ritually pure up to that point, so she was ritually pure when they slaughtered the offering for her.


###### Nazir 15b:6
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וּמִי סָבַר רַבִּי יוֹסֵי הָכִי?

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara questions this explanation: **And does Rabbi Yosei hold** in accordance with **this** ruling that she is impure only from that moment onward?


###### Nazir 15b:7
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וְהָתַנְיָא, רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר: זָב בַּעַל שְׁתֵּי רְאִיּוֹת שֶׁשָּׁחֲטוּ וְזָרְקוּ עָלָיו בַּשְּׁבִיעִי, וְכֵן שׁוֹמֶרֶת יוֹם כְּנֶגֶד יוֹם שֶׁשָּׁחֲטוּ וְזָרְקוּ עָלֶיהָ, וְאַחַר כָּךְ רָאוּ, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁמְּטַמְּאִין מִשְׁכָּב וּמוֹשָׁב לְמַפְרֵעַ — פְּטוּרִין מִלַּעֲשׂוֹת פֶּסַח שֵׁנִי.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**But isn’t it taught** in a *baraita* that **Rabbi Yosei says:** With regard to **a man who experiences a gonorrhea-like discharge [*zav*] who has had two sightings** of discharge, **for whom they slaughtered** a Paschal offering **and sprinkled** its blood **on the seventh,** and final, day of impurity, **and similarly,** with regard to **a woman who observes** a clean **day for a day, for whom they slaughtered** a Paschal offering **and sprinkled** its blood, and **afterward they saw** their respective discharges, **although they render objects designed for lying and sitting impure retroactively, they are exempt from observing** the **second *Pesaḥ*.** This is proof that Rabbi Yosei holds that their ritual impurity applies retroactively, rather than from the moment of discharge onward. It must be that the reason why they are nevertheless exempt from observing the second *Pesaḥ* is that part of the day is like the entire day, and the part of the day before they became impure, during which the blood of the Paschal offering was sprinkled for them, is considered a whole clean day.


###### Nazir 15b:8
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מַאי לְמַפְרֵעַ — מִדְּרַבָּנַן. הָכִי נָמֵי מִיסְתַּבְּרָא, דְּאִי סָלְקָא דַעְתָּךְ מִדְּאוֹרָיְיתָא, אַמַּאי פְּטוּרִין מִלַּעֲשׂוֹת פֶּסַח שֵׁנִי?

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara responds to this attempted proof: **What** is the meaning of Rabbi Yosei’s statement that the ritual impurity applies **retroactively?** It means that the ritual impurity applies retroactively **by rabbinic law.** However, by Torah law, the *zav* or *zava* is impure only from the time of the new sighting and onward. The Gemara adds: **So too, it is reasonable** that this is Rabbi Yosei’s opinion, **as, if it enters your mind** that they become ritually impure retroactively **by Torah law, why are they exempt from observing** the **second *Pesaḥ*** if by Torah law they were impure at the time the offering was slaughtered?


###### Nazir 15b:9
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לְעוֹלָם אֵימָא לָךְ טוּמְאָה דְּאוֹרָיְיתָא, תְּהוֹם דְּזִיבָה הִתִּירוּ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara responds: This is no proof, since **actually, I** could **say to you** that this retroactive **impurity** is **by Torah law,** and the reason they are exempt from observing the second *Pesaḥ* is that the Sages **permitted** impurity of **the deep of *ziva*.** The *halakha* is that in the case of a Paschal offering, an unknown impurity of the dead, called the impurity of the deep, is permitted. In a case where one brought his offering and later became aware that he had contracted impurity from a corpse, if this source of impurity was unknown to everyone, he is not required to observe the second *Pesaḥ*. The Gemara suggests that Rabbi Yosei may hold that the same *halakha* applies to the impurity of a *zava* as well: Since the owner of the offering was pure when it was brought and could not have known that she would become impure due to discharge later that day, it is similarly considered an impurity of the deep, and she has therefore fulfilled her obligation.


###### Nazir 15b:10
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וְאַף רַבִּי אוֹשַׁעְיָא סָבַר לְמַפְרֵעַ מִדְּרַבָּנַן, דְּתַנְיָא, רַבִּי אוֹשַׁעְיָא אָמַר: (אֲבָל) הָרוֹאֶה זָב בַּשְּׁבִיעִי שֶׁלּוֹ — סוֹתֵר אֶת שֶׁלְּפָנָיו. וַאֲמַר לֵיהּ רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן: לָא נִסְתּוֹר אֶלָּא יוֹמוֹ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
§ The Gemara points out: **And even Rabbi Oshaya holds** that, according to Rabbi Yosei, the fact that a *zav* renders objects designed for sitting or lying impure **retroactively** is only **by rabbinic law** in this circumstance. **As it is taught** in a *baraita* that **Rabbi Oshaya says:** In a case of **one who sees gonorrhea-like discharge on his seventh** clean day, this **negates** the clean days **that preceded it** and starts his seven days anew. **And Rabbi Yoḥanan said to him that it should negate only its own day,** i.e., he should require only one additional clean day.


###### Nazir 15b:11
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מָה נַפְשָׁךְ? אִי סָתַר, כּוּלְּהוּ סָתַר. אִי לָא סָתַר — לָא נִסְתּוֹר וְלֹא יוֹמוֹ! אֶלָּא אֵימָא: לָא נִסְתּוֹר וְלָא יוֹמוֹ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara expresses surprise: **Whichever way you** look at Rabbi Yoḥanan’s statement, it is difficult. **If** this discharge **negates** clean days just as the case of a *zav* who had a discharge during his seven days, **it should negate all** his clean days, not only the last one. **If it does not negate** clean days, since it is not considered a discharge within his seven days but rather, as the first sighting of a new *ziva*, it should **not negate** any of it, **and not** even **its own day.** What, then, is the logic of Rabbi Yoḥanan’s ruling that it negates a single day? **Rather, say** instead that Rabbi Yoḥanan said as follows: It does **not negate** at all, **and not** even **its own day,** since this discharge is considered to be the first of a new series.