כל כינויי נזירות – a word which is not the essence of the name is called a substituted word, like a person who calls his fellow by a nickname [Tractate Bava Metzia 58b].

האומר אהא – it is not a nickname but rather suggestions of nicknames, like a handle which the utensil is held by; such the vow is influenced by this language but our Mishnah is deficient and should be read as follows: all nicknames/substitute words for Naziriteship are like Naziriteship and all suggestions of Naziriteship are like Naziriteship. Which are the suggestions of Naziriteship? A person who says: “I will be [such]….,” “I will be handsome,” and which are the nicknames of Naziriteship? Nazik (a substitute for Nazir), Naziah, Paziah.

האומר אהא – that he saw a Nazirite passing before him and said: “I will be,” even though he did not say, “I will be like this,” if he intended to be a Nazirite like him, behold this is a Nazirite and even though he did not utter with his lips like this.

אהא נוה – that he would grab hold of his hair and state, “I will be handsome,” implying that “I will be handsome with the growth of this hair,” and if he intended for this purpose, He is a Nazirite, and even though he did not specify that these and other similar suggestions of Naziriteship and they are like being a Nazirite.

נזיק אזיח פזיח – the expressions of the [non-Jewish] nations that they call a Nazirite as such and their expressions are close to that of Israel and are called nicknames of Naziriteship.

הריני כזה – and he gesticulates/hints to the Nazirite that is opposite him.

הריני מסלסל הריני מכלכל הריני כזה – and all of them specifically when he grabs hold of his hair and his intention is to Naziriteshiip.

מסלסל/he curls his hair (see Talmud Nazir 3a);

מכלכל/grows a crown of hair, and its example is from she has a full growth of hair (around the puenda) [Talmud Niddah 52b], when the hair of [her] pudenda.

הרי עלי צפרים – two turtle doves or two pigeons and they are the sacrifice of a Nazirite who has become ritually defiled and like the example of a Nazirite that passes before him.

רבי מאיר אומר נזיר – since a Nazirite passes before him and birds are the sacrifice of a Nazirite that became ritually defiled, the words prove that when he says, “I pledge myself [to offer] birds,” he is speaking about Naziriteship.

וחכמים אומרים אינו נזיר – and the Halakha is according to the Sages that he is not a Nazirite, but he brings the birds to complete his vow.

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.

הריני נזיר כשער ראשי – or like the dust of the earth. וכעפר הארץ וכו' ה"ז נזיר עולם – but not a real life-long Nazirite, for if he was a life-long Nazirite, he would shave once in twelve months but this one shaves once in thirty days for since his Naziriteship depends upon empty words as if he made the vow in the number of his Naziriteships like the hairs in his head or like the dust of the earth, which is not the case for a life-long Nazirite where he did not divide his Naziriteships but rather did them all in one [period] of Naziriteship.

רבי אומר אין זה מגלח לשלשים יום – for since he said: “I will be a Nazirite” – all of it is one [period] of Naziriteship and he does not shave other than every twelve months like a life-long Nazirite, and which one shaves every thirty days? The one who says, “Naziriteship will be upon me like the hairs of y head, for then it proves that his Naziriteships are interrupted, he accepted upon himself like the number of hairs on his head, but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi [Judah the Prince].

אם אמר אחת גדולה נדרתי – One [period of] Naziriteship I accepted and it appeared to me as large as jugful, he is a Nazirite for thirty days.

But if he said, “my vow is unspecified and I did not have in my heart other than how the Sages will judge my language,” this is a Nazirite for all of his days, and he shaves every twelve months.

הריני נזיר מכאן ועד מקום פלוני – he took hold of it on the road in order to go to that place, but if he did not take hold of it to go to that place, he is made like someone who says, “from here until [as long as it takes to go to] the end of the world and he is a Nazirite for thirty days, whether the place was near or it was far and even if was a distance of several years for he didn’t intend other than one long-period of Naziriteship.

מונה נזירו כמנין ימות השנה – three hundred and sixty five [periods] of Naziriteship like the number of days of the solar year.

אמר רבי יהודה מעשר היה כיון שהשלים מת – Rabbi Yehuda had the tradition that Rabbi [Judah the Prince] disputed the first Tanna/Teacher [of the Mishnah] and stated that the individual who states “Behold I am a Nazirite like the number of days of the solar year – is a life-long Nazirite.” And he brought the episode to prove that he is not a life-long Nazirite for this was the case, and when he completed [his Nazirite vow] he died, and regarding completion [of a term], the [notion of] a life-long Nazirite does not belong , but rather a real case would count his Naziritieships, and such is the Halakha.