## Nazir Daf 7a

###### Nazir 7a:1
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וְאֵימָא שָׁנָה? מִי מָנֵינַן לְיוֹמֵי?! וְהָא רַבָּנַן דְּקֵיסָרִי אָמְרִי: מִנַּיִן שֶׁאֵין מוֹנִין יָמִים לְשָׁנִים — שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: ״לְחׇדְשֵׁי הַשָּׁנָה״, חֳדָשִׁים מְחַשְּׁבִין לְשָׁנִים, וְלֹא יָמִים לְשָׁנִים.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara asks further: **But say** it is referring to **a year,** which can also be full or lacking. The Gemara responds: **Do we count** years **by days? Didn’t the Sages of Caesarea say: From where** is it derived **that one does not count days toward years,** but that years are calculated according to months? **As it is stated: “Of the months of the year”** (Exodus 12:2). This teaches that **months are calculated to** comprise **years, but days are not** counted **toward years.** Therefore, only a month can be described as being completed by a particular day.


###### Nazir 7a:2
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**מַתְנִי׳** אָמַר: ״הֲרֵינִי נָזִיר אַחַת גְּדוֹלָה״, ״הֲרֵינִי נָזִיר אַחַת קְטַנָּה״, אֲפִילּוּ: ״מִכָּאן וְעַד סוֹף הָעוֹלָם״ — נָזִיר שְׁלֹשִׁים יוֹם.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**MISHNA:** If **one said: I am hereby a nazirite** for **one long** term, or: **I am hereby a nazirite** for **one short** term, or **even** if one said: I am hereby a nazirite **from now until the end of the world,** in all these cases he is **a nazirite** for **thirty days.**


###### Nazir 7a:3
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**גְּמָ׳** אַמַּאי? וְהָא ״מִכָּאן וְעַד סוֹף הָעוֹלָם״ קָאָמַר! הָכִי קָאָמַר: אֲרִיכָא לִי הָדָא מִילְּתָא כְּמִכָּאן וְעַד סוֹף הָעוֹלָם.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**GEMARA:** The mishna taught that even one who said: I am hereby a nazirite from now until the end of the world, becomes a nazirite for thirty days. The Gemara asks: **Why** does he become a nazirite for only thirty days? **Didn’t he say: From now until the end of the world?** The Gemara answers: **This is what he is saying:** Because of the difficulties it entails, it is as though **this matter** of naziriteship **were as lengthy for me as** the time **from now until the end of the world.**


###### Nazir 7a:4
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תְּנַן: ״הֲרֵינִי נָזִיר מִכָּאן עַד מָקוֹם פְּלוֹנִי״ — אוֹמְדִים כַּמָּה יָמִים מִכָּאן וְעַד מָקוֹם פְּלוֹנִי, פָּחוֹת מִשְּׁלֹשִׁים יוֹם — נָזִיר שְׁלֹשִׁים יוֹם. וְאִם לָאו — נָזִיר כְּמִנְיַן הַיָּמִים. וְאֵימָא הָכָא נָמֵי: אֲרִיכָא לִי הָא מִילְּתָא כְּמִכָּאן וְעַד מָקוֹם פְּלוֹנִי!

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara raises a difficulty: **We learned** in the mishna (8a): If one says: **I am hereby a nazirite from here until such and such a place, one estimates how many days** it takes to walk **from here until such and such a place.** If it is a distance of **less than thirty days,** he is **a nazirite** for **thirty days,** since this is the minimum term of naziriteship. **And if not,** i.e., if it takes more than thirty days to walk that distance, he is **a nazirite in accordance with the number of days** it takes to walk to that place. **But here too,** in that mishna, **say** that the individual intends to accept only a thirty-day term of naziriteship, and he means to say: **This matter** of naziriteship **is as lengthy for me as** the time it would take me to walk **from here until such and such a place.**


###### Nazir 7a:5
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אָמַר רָבָא: שֶׁהֶחְזִיק בַּדֶּרֶךְ. וְלִיהְוֵי כׇּל פַּרְסָה וּפַרְסָה! אָמַר רַב פָּפָּא: בְּאַתְרָא דְּלָא מָנֵי פַּרְסֵי.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rava said:** That mishna is referring to one **who had** already **set out on the way,** so that it is apparent that his intention is to be a nazirite until he reaches his destination. The Gemara asks: Why is it assumed that he means to accept a single term of naziriteship that is the length of time it takes to travel to a certain destination? **And let each and every parasang [*parsa*]** be understood to refer to a separate term of naziriteship, such that the individual is understood to have accepted a separate term of naziriteship for each parasang that he must travel. **Rav Pappa said:** The mishna deals **with a place where** people **do not measure** distances in **parasangs.**


###### Nazir 7a:6
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וְלִיהְוֵי כׇּל אַוּוֹנָא וְאַוּוֹנָא! מִי לָא תְּנַן: ״הֲרֵינִי נָזִיר כַּעֲפַר הָאָרֶץ״, וְ״כִשְׂעַר רֹאשִׁי״, וּ״כְחוֹל הַיָּם״ — הֲרֵי זֶה נְזִיר עוֹלָם, וּמְגַלֵּחַ אֶחָד לִשְׁלשִׁים יוֹם?!

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara asks further: **And let each and every way station [*avvana*],** where travelers lodge at night, be understood to refer to a separate term of naziriteship, such that the individual is understood to have accepted a separate term of naziriteship for each station that he passes along the way. **Didn’t we learn** in a mishna (8a): If one says: **I am hereby a nazirite like the dust of the earth, or: Like the hair of my head, or: Like the sand of the sea, he is a nazirite forever,** as it is understood that he accepted upon himself terms of naziriteship in accordance with the number of his hairs, or grains of dust, or sand, **and he shaves once** every **thirty days?**


###### Nazir 7a:7
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כׇּל מִילְּתָא דְּאִית בַּיהּ קִיצּוּתָא לָא קָתָנֵי.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara responds: **Everything that has a fixed amount is not taught** in this clause, which states that one is a nazirite forever. When one declares that he will be a nazirite for a length of time corresponding to an item that people consider infinite, e.g., the dust of the earth, his intention is not to define the length of a single term of naziriteship, as it is unknown how many grains of dust there are. However, when one mentions something that does have a fixed number, e.g., the number of days it takes to walk to a certain place, his intention is to define the length of a single term of naziriteship.


###### Nazir 7a:8
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וְהָתַנְיָא: ״הֲרֵינִי נָזִיר כׇּל יְמֵי חַיַּי״, ״הֲרֵינִי נְזִיר עוֹלָם״ — הֲרֵי זֶה נְזִיר עוֹלָם. אֲפִילּוּ מֵאָה שָׁנָה, אֲפִילּוּ אֶלֶף שָׁנִים — אֵין זֶה נְזִיר עוֹלָם, אֶלָּא נָזִיר לְעוֹלָם.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**And** similarly, **it is taught** in a *baraita*: If one says: **I am hereby a nazirite all the days of my life,** or: **I am hereby a permanent nazirite, he is a permanent nazirite.** However, if he said that he is a nazirite for a fixed period of time, **even** for **one hundred years** or **even** for **one thousand years, he is not a permanent nazirite. Rather,** he is a regular **nazirite forever,** since he will not live long enough to complete his term of naziriteship. This demonstrates that there is a difference between a naziriteship that lasts for a fixed time and a naziriteship that is unlimited.


###### Nazir 7a:9
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רַבָּה אָמַר: שָׁאנֵי שְׂעָרוֹת, הוֹאִיל וּמוּבְדָּלוֹת זוֹ מִזּוֹ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rabba said** another reason for the distinction between one who accepts naziriteship based on the distance between places and one who accepts naziriteship based on the number of hairs on his head or the dust of the earth. **Hairs** are **different, since they are separated from each other.** Consequently, one who says: Like the hair of my head, is referring to distinct terms of naziriteship.


###### Nazir 7a:10
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גַּבֵּי יוֹמֵי נָמֵי, הָא כְּתִיב ״וַיְהִי עֶרֶב וַיְהִי בֹקֶר יוֹם אֶחָד״!

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara asks: **Also with regard to days, isn’t it written: “And there was evening and there was morning, one day”** (Genesis 1:5), which indicates that each day is a separate unit? Consequently, one who vows to be a nazirite: From here until such and such a place, should be considered to have accepted upon himself distinct terms of naziriteship corresponding to the number of days it takes to travel to the designated destination.


###### Nazir 7a:11
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הָתָם לָאו דְּמִפַּסְקִי מֵהֲדָדֵי הוּא. מַאי קָאָמַר — יְמָמָא וְלֵילְיָא חַד יוֹמָא הוּא, וּלְעוֹלָם לָא מִפַּסְקִי מֵהֲדָדֵי.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara answers: The meaning of the verse **there is not that** days **are separated from each other,** because time is continuous. Rather, **what it is saying** is that the period of **day and night is one** calendar **day, but actually** days **are not separate from each other.**


###### Nazir 7a:12
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רָבָא אָמַר: לְמָה לָךְ אַקְשׁוֹיֵי כּוּלֵּי הַאי, שָׁאנֵי הָתָם, דְּהָא קָתָנֵי ״הֲרֵינִי נָזִיר אַחַת״.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The discussion above stemmed from the difficulty with the mishna’s case where one accepted naziriteship from now until the end of the world. **Rava said: Why** do **you raise all these difficulties? It is different there, as it teaches** that the individual said: **I am hereby a nazirite** for **one** long term. Since he specified that he is accepting one term of naziriteship, his statement is interpreted accordingly and is not interpreted as a reference to multiple terms of naziriteship.


###### Nazir 7a:13
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**מַתְנִי׳** ״הֲרֵינִי נָזִיר וְיוֹם אֶחָד״, ״הֲרֵינִי נָזִיר וְשָׁעָה אַחַת״, ״הֲרֵינִי נָזִיר אַחַת וּמֶחֱצָה״ — הֲרֵי זֶה נָזִיר שְׁתַּיִם.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**MISHNA:** If one said: **I am hereby a nazirite and one day,** or: **I am hereby a nazirite and one hour,** or: **I am hereby a nazirite** for **one and a half, he** becomes **a nazirite** for **two** consecutive terms of naziriteship. When he says: I am hereby a nazirite, he accepts upon himself one thirty-day term of naziriteship. When he subsequently adds an additional amount of time, e.g., an extra day, he thereby accepts upon himself an additional term of naziriteship, and the minimal term of naziriteship is thirty days.


###### Nazir 7a:14
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**גְּמָ׳** לְמָה לִי לְמִיתְנָא כׇּל הָנֵי? צְרִיכִי, דְּאִי תְּנָא ״הֲרֵינִי נָזִיר וְיוֹם אֶחָד״, הָכָא הוּא דְּאָמְרִינַן: אֵין נְזִירוּת לְיוֹם אֶחָד, אַמְּטוּ לְהָכִי קָמָנֵי תַּרְתֵּין. אֲבָל ״הֲרֵינִי נָזִיר וְשָׁעָה אַחַת״ — לִימְנֵי שְׁלֹשִׁים וְאֶחָד יוֹם, קָא מַשְׁמַע לַן.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**GEMARA:** The Gemara asks: **Why do I** need the mishna **to teach all these** cases rather than giving just one example of the mishna’s principle? The Gemara explains: All the cases **are necessary, as, if** the mishna had **taught** only the case where one said: **I am hereby a nazirite and one day,** one might have thought: **It is here that we say** that **there is no naziriteship for one day,** and **therefore he must count two** terms of naziriteship. **However,** if he said: **I am hereby a nazirite and one hour, let him count thirty-one days.** The mishna therefore **teaches us** that even in this latter case he must keep two terms of naziriteship.