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Bartenura on Mishnah Nazir Chapter 7

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כֹּהֵן גָּדוֹל וְנָזִיר אֵינָן מִטַּמְּאִין לִקְרוֹבֵיהֶן. כְּדִכְתִיב בְּפָרָשַׁת אֱמֹר וּבְפָרָשַׁת נָשֹׂא:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

כהן גדול ונזיר אינן מטמאין לקרוביהן – as it is written in the Torah portion of Emor (Leviticus 21:11 – “He shall not defile himself even for his father or mother.”) and the Torah portion of Naso (Numbers 6:7: “Even if his father or mother, or his brother or sister should die, he must not defile himself for them, since hair set apart for his God is upon his head.”)

הָיוּ מְהַלְּכִים בַּדֶּרֶךְ. לָאו דַוְקָא בְּכֹהֵן גָּדוֹל פְּלִיגֵי, דְּהוּא הַדִּין בְּכֹהֵן הֶדְיוֹט נַמִּי פְלִיגֵי, דְּחַד טַעְמָא הוּא:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

היו מהלכים בדרך – not specifically regarding the High Priest do they dispute (i.e., Rabbi Eliezer and the Sages), for the same law applies regarding the common priest, they also dispute, and it is one reason.

עַל הַמֵּת. אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁאֵינוֹ שָׁלֵם אֶלָּא שֶׁיֵּשׁ בּוֹ רֹב בִּנְיָן, שֶׁהֵם שְׁנֵי שׁוֹקַיִם וְיָרֵךְ אֶחָד, אוֹ רֹב מִנְיַן הָאֵבָרִים שֶׁהֵם מֵאָה עֶשְׂרִים וַחֲמִשָּׁה אֵבָרִים, אֲפִלּוּ אֵין בָּהֶם רֹבַע קַב, מְטַמֵּא בָאֹהֶל, וְנָזִיר מְגַלֵּחַ עָלָיו. וְאִם אֵין בַּמֵּת לֹא רֹב מִנְיָן וְלֹא רֹב בִּנְיָן, אֵין הַנָּזִיר מְגַלֵּחַ עַל אָהֳלוֹ עַד שֶׁיְּהֵא בָּעֲצָמוֹת חֲצִי קַב:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

על המת – even though it is not [a] complete [body] but rather that it has most of the human frame/skeleton which are two legs and one thigh, or the majority of number of limbs which are one-hundred and twenty-five limbs (out of two-hundred and forty-eight), even if there isn’t among them one quarter of a Kab (a measure of capacity, one-sixth of a Se’ah) which defiles in a tent, and a Nazirite shaves his hair upon [this contact]. But if the dead body lacks [both] the majority of number [of limbs] and the majority of the skeletal frame, the Naziite doesn’t shave on his being overshadowed [by the dead person] until it would have among the bones one-half of a Kab.

וְעַל כַּזַּיִת נֶצֶל. מֹהַל הַיּוֹצֵא מִן הַמֵּת כְּמִין לֵחָה הַיּוֹצֵאת מֵעִפּוּשׁ הַבָּשָׂר:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

ועל כזית נצל – a thin secretion that comes out from the dead body like something moist that comes from the moldering of the flesh.

מְלֹא תַרְוָד רָקָב. מְלֹא כָף מֵעֲפַר רִקָּבוֹן שֶׁל מֵת. וְאֵין הָרִקָּבוֹן מְטַמֵּא אֶלָּא כְשֶׁנִּקְבָּר הַמֵּת עָרוֹם בַּאֲרוֹן שֶׁל שַׁיִשׁ וְכַיּוֹצֵא בוֹ שֶׁאֵין שָׁם רִקָּבוֹן אַחֵר אֶלָּא מִגּוּפוֹ שֶׁל מֵת, וְנִקְבַּר הַמֵּת כֻּלּוֹ שָׁלֵם שֶׁלֹּא נֶחְסַר מִמֶּנּוּ אֵבֶר:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

מלא תרוד רקב – a spoonful from the dust of the rottenness (i.e., a mass of earth from a grave containing parts of a decayed human body) of a dead body. But the rottenness does not defile other than when the dead person was buried naked in an ark of marble or something like this, for there is no other rottenness there other than from the body of the dead person. And the dead person was buried completely whole where there was no limb from it missing.

תַּרְוָד. כַּף גְּדוֹלָה שֶׁמַּחְזֶקֶת מְלֹא חָפְנַיִם:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

תרוד – a large spoon that holds a handful [of dust from the decaying body].

עַל הַשִּׁדְרָה. אֲפִלּוּ אֵין בָּהּ בָּשָׂר כְּלָל:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

על השדרה – even if there isn’t any flesh at all.

וְכֵן עַל עֶצֶם הַגֻּלְגֹּלֶת. שֶׁל הָרֹאשׁ, אֲפִלּוּ אֵין בָּהּ בָּשָׂר:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

וכן על עצם הגולגולת – of the head, even if there is no flesh in it.

וְעַל אֵבֶר מִן הַחַי וְעַל אֵבֶר מִן הַמֵּת שֶׁיֵּשׁ עֲלֵיהֶם בָּשָׂר כָּרָאוּי. כָּל שֶׁאִלּוּ הָיָה הָאֵבָר מְחֻבָּר בְּאָדָם חַי הָיָה יָכוֹל לְהַעֲלוֹת אֲרוּכָה עַל יְדֵי אוֹתוֹ בָשָׂר הוּא נִקְרָא כָרָאוּי. וְהוּא פָּחוֹת מִכַּזַּיִת:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

ועל אבר מן החי ועל אבר מן המת שיש עליהם בשר כראוי – everything for the limb ad been attached to a living person, he would be able to raise up the web of new flesh or skin on a healing wound as appropriate through the same flesh which it is called, as appropriate, and it is less than an olive’s bulk.

וְעַל חֲצִי קַב עֲצָמוֹת. וְאַף עַל גַּב דְּרֹבַע קַב עֲצָמוֹת מְטַמֵּא בָאֹהֶל, הֲלָכָה לְמֹשֶׁה מִסִּינַי שֶׁאֵין הַנָּזִיר מְגַלֵּחַ אֶלָּא עַל חֲצִי קַב, וְכֵן עַל חֲצִי לֹג דָּם. וְאַף עַל גַּב דְּרֹבַע דָּם מְטַמֵּא בָאֹהֶל, אֵין הַנָּזִיר מְגַלֵּחַ אֶלָּא עַל חֲצִי לֹג:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

ועל חצי קב עצמות – and even though a quarter of a Kab of bones defiles in a tent, there is a usage dating from Moses as delivered from Sinai (a traditional interpretation of a written law) that a Nazirite does not shave/cut off his hair other than on one-half of a Kab, and similarly on one-half of a LOG of blood (a LOG equals the volume of six eggs), and even though one-quarter of a Kab defiles, in a tent, the Nazirite does not shave other than one-half of a LOG.

וְעַל עֶצֶם כַּשְּׂעֹרָה עַל מַגָּעוֹ וְעַל מַשָּׂאוֹ. אֲבָל עַל אָהֳלוֹ לֹא, שֶׁאֵין עֶצֶם כַּשְּׂעֹרָה מְטַמֵּא בָאֹהֶל:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

ועל עצם כשעורה על מגעו ועל משאו – but not regarding his tent, for the bone that is a barley-bulk does not defile in a tent.

וְסוֹתֵר אֶת הַקּוֹדְמִים. כְּדִכְתִיב (במדבר ו) וְהַיָּמִים הָרִאשׁוֹנִים יִפְּלוּ:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

סותר את הקודמים – as it is written (Numbers 6:12): “The previous period shall be void,[since his consecrated hair was defiled].”

עַד שֶׁיִּטְהַר. שֶׁיִּטְבֹּל וְיַעֲרִיב שִׁמְשׁוֹ אַחַר שֶׁיַּזֶּה שְׁלִישִׁי וּשְׁבִיעִי:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

עד שיטהר – that he would immerse and sunset would pass after he would be sprinkled on the third and seventh days.

אֲבָל הַסְּכָכוֹת. אִילָן שֶׁיֵּשׁ לוֹ עֲנָפִים מֻבְדָּלִים זֶה מִזֶּה, וְיֵשׁ כַּזַּיִת מִן הַמֵּת תַּחַת אֶחָד מֵהֶן, וְעָבַר הַנָּזִיר וְאֵין יָדוּעַ אִם עָבַר תַּחַת הֶעָנָף הַמַּאֲהִיל עַל הַמֵּת:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

אבל הסככות – a tree that has branches separated one from the other, and here is an olive’s bulk from the dead underneath one of hem and the Nazirite passed by and it is not known whether he passed under the branch/foliage that formed a tent/spread itself over a corpse (see also Tractate Ohalot, Chapter 3, Mishnah 1).

וְהַפְּרָעוֹת. אֲבָנִים אוֹ עֵצִים בּוֹלְטִים מִן הַכֹּתֶל וְטֻמְאָה תַּחַת אֶחָד מֵהֶם:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

והפרעות – stones or trees that protrude/project from the wall and defilement is underneath one of them.

וּבֵית הַפְּרָס. שָׂדֶה שֶׁנֶּחֱרַשׁ בָּהּ קֶבֶר עוֹשָׂה בֵּית הַפְּרָס מֵאָה אַמָּה, שֶׁכָּךְ שִׁעֲרוּ שֶׁהַמַּחֲרֵשָׁה מוֹלִיכָה אֶת הָעֶצֶם:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

ובית הפרס – a field in which a grave was ploughed up and makes an area of a square P’ras, declared unclean on account of crushed bones carried over it from a ploughed grave which is one hundred cubits which is its measurement, as the plough carries the bones.

וְאֶרֶץ הָעַמִּים. שֶׁגָּזְרוּ חֲכָמִים טֻמְאָה עַל אֶרֶץ הָעַמִּים:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

וארץ העמים – that the Sages decreed [ritual] defilement on the land of the [foreign] nations.

גּוֹלֵל. כִּסּוּי הָאָרוֹן:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

גולל – the cover of the coffin.

דּוֹפֵק. הָאָרוֹן עַצְמוֹ שֶׁהַכִּסּוּי דּוֹפֵק עָלָיו:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

דופק – the coffin itself that the covering buttresses it.

וּרְבִיעִית דָּם. אֲפִלּוּ עַל מַשָּׂאוֹ וּמַגָּעוֹ אֵין הַנָּזִיר מְגַלֵּחַ:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

ורביעית דם – even on carrying it or coming in contact with it, the Nazirite does not shave/cut his hair.

וְאֹהֶל וְרֹבַע עֲצָמוֹת. אִם הֶאֱהִיל עַל רֹבַע קַב שֶׁל עַצְמוֹת הַמֵּת, אֵינוֹ מְגַלֵּחַ, עַד שֶׁיַּאֲהִיל עַל חֲצִי קַב. אֲבָל עַל מַגָּע וּמַשָּׂא שֶׁל רֹבַע עֲצָמוֹת, מְגַלֵּחַ, וַאֲפִלּוּ הֵם נִמּוֹקִים וְלֹא נִשְׁאַר בָּהֶם עֶצֶם כַּשְּׂעֹרָה שָׁלֵם:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

ואהל ורובע עצמות – if he overshadowed on a quarter-of-a-Kab of bones of a dead person, he does not shave/cut his hair until he overshadows over one-half-a-Kab, but on contact with it and/or carrying of a quarter-Kab [of bones] he shaves/cuts his hair, and even if they are decaying and there doesn’t remain of them bone of a full barley’s bulk.

וְכֵלִים הַנּוֹגְעִים בְּמֵת. שֶׁהֵם מְטַמְּאִים כַּמֵּת עַצְמוֹ. וְהַנּוֹגֵעַ בָּהֶם טָמֵא טֻמְאַת שִׁבְעָה:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

וכלים הנוגעים במת – which defile like the dead person himself, and he who touches them is defiled for a period of seven days.

וִימֵי גָמְרוֹ. יְמֵי חִלּוּטוֹ שֶׁל מְצֹרָע:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

וימי נזרו – the days of the passing of final judgement on a leper (after probationary enclosure – see Leviticus, chapter 13).

וִימֵי סָפְרוֹ. לְאַחַר שֶׁנִּטְהַר מִצָּרַעְתּוֹ, דִּכְתִיב (ויקרא יד) וְיָשַׁב מִחוּץ לְאָהֳלוֹ שִׁבְעַת יָמִים:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

וימי ספירו – after he has become purified from his leprosy, as it is written (Leviticus 14:8): “but he must remain outside his tent seven days.”

עַל אֵלּוּ אֵין הַנָּזִיר מְגַלֵּחַ. עַל כָּל הָנָךְ דְּמַתְנִיתִין:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

על אלו אין הנזיר מגלח – on all of these of our Mishnah.

וּמַזֶּה בַּשְּׁלִישִׁי וּבַשְּׁבִיעִי. הָא לֹא קָאֵי אַיְּמֵי סָפְרוֹ וְאַיְּמֵי גָמְרוֹ, דְּלֹא שַׁיָּךְ בְּהוּ הַזָּאָה שְׁלִישִׁי וּשְׁבִיעִי:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

ומזה בשלישי ושביעי – But it does not refer to the days of his counting or to the days his completion, for the sprinkling on the third day and on the seventh day do not belong to them.

וְאֵינוֹ סוֹתֵר אֶת הַקּוֹדְמִין וּמַתְחִיל וּמוֹנֶה מִיָּד. כָּל אֵלֶּה שֶׁאָמַרְנוּ, אֵינָן עוֹלִין לִימֵי הַנְּזִירוּת וְאֵין סוֹתְרִין, אֶלָּא אַחַר שֶׁיַּזֶּה שְׁלִישִׁי וּשְׁבִיעִי וְיִטְהַר אִם נִטְמָא בְּטֻמְאַת מֵת, וְאַחַר שֶׁיַּשְׁלִים יְמֵי גָמְרוֹ וִימֵי סָפְרוֹ אִם נִצְטָרֵעַ מַשְׁלִים נְזִירָתוֹ עַל מִנְיַן הַיָּמִים שֶׁמָּנָה קֹדֶם שֶׁנִּטְמָא, וְאֵינוֹ מֵבִיא קָרְבַּן טֻמְאָה:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

ואינו סותר את הקודמין ומתחיל ומונה מיד – all of these that we stated do not count to the days of Naziriteship and he would become [ritually] pure after he sprinkles on the third and seventh days. If he was defiled through defilement with the dead, and after he completes the days of his completion [of his being shut out and purified from his being a leper] if he was leprous, he completes his Naziriteship on the number of days that he counted that he counted prior to becoming defiled, and does not bring a sacrifice for defilement.

בֶּאֱמֶת אָמְרוּ יְמֵי הַזָּב וְהַזָּבָה. כָּל יְמֵי טֻמְאָתָם וִימֵי סְפִירָתָם שִׁבְעָה נְקִיִּים:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

באמת אמרו ימי זהב וזבה – all the days of their defilement and the days of their counting of seven clean days

וִימֵי הֶסְגֵּרוֹ שֶׁל מְצֹרָע. שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בּוֹ (שם טז) וְהִסְגִּיר אֶת הַנֶּגַע שִׁבְעַת יָמִים, עוֹלִין לְמִנְיַן יְמֵי הַנְּזִירוּת, וְאֵין צָרִיךְ לוֹמַר שֶׁאֵין סוֹתְרִין אֶת הַקּוֹדְמִים:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

and the days of the leper’s being locked up for trial, and it is stated regarding it (Leviticus 13:50 – the wrong chapter is listed in the Hebrew edition of the Bartenura commentary): “[and the priest after examining the affection,] shall isolate the affected article for seven days,” they count towards the number of days of his Naziriteship, and it is not necessary to state that they don’t lose the prior days.

חַיָּבִין עָלֶיהָ עַל בִּיאַת מִקְדָּשׁ. אִם נִטְמָא בְאוֹתָהּ טֻמְאָה וְנִכְנַס לַמִּקְדָּשׁ, אוֹ אוֹכֵל קָדָשִׁים קֹדֶם שֶׁטָּהַר מִטֻּמְאָתוֹ, חַיָּבִין עָלֶיהָ כָּרֵת אִם הָיָה מֵזִיד, אוֹ קָרְבַּן עוֹלֶה וְיוֹרֵד אִם הָיָה שׁוֹגֵג:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

חייבין עליה על ביאת מקדש – if he was defiled by the same defilement and entered into the Temple, or he at Holy Things prior to his purifying from his defilement, he is liable for extirpation for it if it was done willfully, or if it was done inadvertently, a sliding-scale offering (where the financial situation of the sinner is taken into account in determining the nature of the sin-offering that he brings).

לֹא תְהֵא זוֹ קַלָּה מִן הַשֶּׁרֶץ. דְּחַיָּבִין עָלֶיהָ עַל בִּיאַת מִקְדָּשׁ, כְּדִכְתִיב בְּוַיִּקְרָא אוֹ בְנִבְלַת שֶׁרֶץ טָמֵא. וּמִלְּתָא דְרַבִּי מֵאִיר לֵיתָא, שֶׁהֲרֵי מַגָּע וּמַשָּׂא שֶׁל עֶצֶם כַּשְּׂעֹרָה שֶׁהוּא קַל שֶׁאֵינוֹ מְטַמֵּא בָאֹהֶל, הַנָּזִיר מְגַלֵּחַ עָלֶיהָ כְּדִתְנַן בְּמַתְנִיתִין, וּרְבִיעִית דָּם שֶׁהִיא חֲמוּרָה שֶׁמְּטַמֵּא בָאֹהֶל אֵין הַנָּזִיר מְגַלֵּחַ עָלֶיהָ:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

לא תהא זו קלה מן השרץ – that they are liable for it for entering into the Temple , as it is written in Leviticus (Chapter 5, Verse 2 – the chapter is not the one indicated by the Bartenura commentary: “or the carcass of an unclean creeping thing – [and the fact has escaped him, and then, being unclean, he realizes his guilt].” But the matter of Rabbi Meir does not apply, for contact with and/or carrying of a barley-corn’s bulk of a bone which is the more lenient, which does not defile in a tent [through overshadowing], the Nazirite shaves/cuts his hair for it, as it is taught in our Mishnah (Tractate Nazir, Chapter 7, Mishnah 3), and a quarter-Kab of blood which is more stringent which does defile in a tent [through overshadowing), the Nazirite does not shave for it.

אֵין דָּנִין כָּאן קַל וָחֹמֶר. שֶׁאֵין דָּנִין קַל וָחֹמֶר עַל דָּבָר שֶׁהוּא הֲלָכָה לְמֹשֶׁה מִסִּינַי, שֶׁעֶצֶם כַּשְּׂעֹרָה אֵינוֹ כָּתוּב בַּתּוֹרָה אֶלָּא הֲלָכָה הִיא, וְאֵין דָּנִין קַל וָחֹמֶר מֵהֲלָכָה. וְהֵן הֵן דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר הֵן הֵן דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ שֶׁאָמַר אֶלָּא כָּךְ אָמְרוּ הֲלָכָה:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

אין דנין כאן ק"ו – for we do not deduce an argument from minor to major (i.e., from the lesser to the greater) on a matter which is a Halakha transmitted to Moses from Sinai since the a barley-corn’s bulk of a bone is not written in the Torah, but it is a Halakha, and we don’t deduce an argument from minor to major from Halakha, whether they are the words of Rabbi Eliezer or whether they are the words of Rabbi Yehoshua who stated it, but rather, this what they stated is the Halakha.

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