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1) WHAT IS NEEDED TO START NEZIRUS TAHARAH?

1. "He will be a Nazir and will bring" - even before he brings, he is a Nazir.
2. R. Yishma'el, son of R. Yochanan ben Berokah expounds, "He will be a Nazir and will bring" - When is he a Nazir? When he brings!

(b) Question: Who is the Tana of the following Beraisa?

1. (Beraisa): A woman accepted Nezirus and became Teme'ah; her husband annulled her Nezirus. She brings a bird as a sin-offering, but not a bird burnt-offering.

(c) Answer (Rav Chisda): R. Yishmael.
(d) Question: How does R. Yishmael hold regarding a husband's annulment?

1. If the vow is uprooted retroactively - even a bird sin-offering should not be needed!
2. If the vow is uprooted from the time of annulment and henceforth - she should also have to bring a bird as a burnt-offering!

(e) Answer: He holds, the vow is uprooted retroactively; a sin-offering is needed, because he holds as R. Eliezer ha'Kapar.

1. Rhetorical question: (Beraisa - R. Eliezer ha'Kapar b'Rebbi): "... that he sinned on the soul" - on which soul did he sin?
2. Answer: On his own soul, by denying himself wine.

i. If one is called a sinner for denying himself wine - all the more so, one who (fasts and) denies himself all food!

(f) Question: The verse is written by a Tamei Nazir - but R. Eliezer ha'Kapar says that even a Tahor Nazir sins!
(g) Answer: Yes, a Tahor Nazir also sins - the verse was written by a Tamei Nazir, since he sinned twice.

(a) (Mishnah): If he left and entered (the cemetery), the days count.
(b) Question: Just because he left, the days count?!
(c) Answer: (Shmuel): He left, was sprinkled with the special water on days 3 and 7, and immersed.
(d) Question: Because he re-entered the cemetery, the days count - if he did not re-enter, the days would not count?!
(e) Answer: The Mishnah teaches an even bigger Chidush.

1. Not only if he left the cemetery - but even if he re-enters, the days count.

(f) Rav Kahana and Rav Asi (to Rav): Why didn't you explain the Mishnah to us?
(g) Rav: I thought you did not need me to explain it.
(h) (Mishnah): R. Eliezer says, if he re-entered on the same day, the day is not nullified - " The first days will fall" - there must be (at least 2) first days.
(i) (Ula): R. Eliezer only said this by a Tamei person that accepted Nezirus - but a Tahor Nazir that became Tamei, even on the 1st day, the day is nullified.

(j) (Rava): R. Eliezer learns from "For he made Tamei his Nezirus" - because he accepted Nezirus in Tum'ah.
(k) Question (Abaye - Beraisa): Reuven said 'I am a Nazir for 100 days', and he became Tamei at the beginning.

1. Suggestion: Perhaps the 1st day should be wiped out.

(l) Answer: No - "The first days will fall", and this man has only 1 first day.
(m) Question (Beraisa): If he became Tamei at the end of 100, one might have thought he nullifies the days he counted - "The first days will fall", implying that there are last days, and this man has only 1 last day;
(n) If he became Tamei on day 99, one might have thought he does not nullify the days he counted - "The first days will fall", implying that there are last days, and this man has 1st and last days.

1. You cannot say that he was Tamei when he accepted Nezirus, since in the previous case he became Tamei at the beginning of the 100 days.
2. The Beraisa says, he must have first days.

i. This refutes Ula.

(o) Question (Rav Papa): The first days - does this mean, 2 days have passed, and the 3rd day has begun?

1. Or, 1 day has passed, the 2nd day has begun?
2. Abaye was unable to answer.

(p) Answer (Rava): It says, "They will fall" (even partial days; the 1st explanation in Rashi - 2 full days fall).

1. The Torah had to write both "Days" and "They will fall".

i. If it only said "Days" - one might have thought, 2 days have passed, the 3rd has begun.
ii. If it only said "They will fall" - one might have thought, even 1 day.

(a) (Mishnah): One who accepted a long Nezirus in Chutz La'aretz, completed it and came to Eretz Yisrael - Beis Shamai say, he must conduct 30 more days of Nezirus; Beis Hillel say, he starts the entire Nezirus from the beginning;

1. There was a case with Queen Hilni. She accepted to be a Nazirah for 7 years if her son will return safe from war; he did. At the end of the 7 years, she came up to Eretz Yisrael. Beis Hillel ruled that she must be a Nazirah for 7 more years.

i. At the end of those 7 years, she became Teme'ah, and had to fulfill 7 more years, a total of 21 years of Nezirus;
ii. R. Yehudah says, she was a Nazirah for only 14 years.

(b) (Gemara - Mishnah): Beis Shamai say, he must conduct 30 more days of Nezirus; Beis Hillel say, he starts the entire Nezirus from the beginning.
(c) Suggestion: Beis Shamai hold that Tum'ah was decreed on the soil of Chutz La'aretz, and Beis Hillel hold that anything in the airspace of Chutz La'aretz is Tamei (since Beis Hillel are more stringent by Tum'ah, they are more stringent by Nezirus also). (Tosfos' text: Beis Shamai hold that Tum'ah was decreed on the air of Chutz La'aretz, and Beis Hillel hold that the soil of Chutz La'aretz is Tamei; since Beis Hillel's decree resembles Tum'ah mid'Oraisa, they require the Nazir to act as if he became Tamei mid'Oraisa).