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REVIEW QUESTIONS ON GEMARA AND RASHI

prepared by Rabbi Eliezer Chrysler
Kollel Iyun Hadaf, Jerusalem

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Nazir 60

1)

(a) Our Mishnah (which prescribes a sixty-day period and a hundred and twenty-day period for a Nazir who is Tamei be'Safek and Muchlat be'Safek, is speaking about a short-term Nazir.
When does the Tana of the Beraisa permit someone who is a Nazir for a year (under the same circumstances) ...
  1. ... to eat Kodshim?
  2. ... to drink wine and become Tamei Meis?
(b) In any event, he will need to shave four times.
When will those shavings take place?

(c) When he shaves the first time, he brings the two birds (for his Safek Tzara'as and the Chatas ha'Of (for his Safek Nezirus de'Tum'ah) and the Olas Beheimah (for his Safek Nezirus de'Taharah).
Why does the Tana not mention the Olas ha'Of?

(d) Seeing as a Metzora Muchlat needs to shave after seven days, why does he not shave immediately (after thirty days)?

2)
(a) What does he bring with his second shaving?

(b) When he shaves the third time, he brings the Chatas ha'Of (for his Nezirus de'Tum'ah, in case he was a Muchlat) and the Olas Beheimah (for his Nezirus de'Taharah, in case he was a Muchlat but not Tamei ).
What does he bring with his fourth shaving?

3)
(a) We learned that when he shaves the first time, he brings the two birds (for his Safek Tzara'as), the Chatas ha'Of (for his Safek Nezirus de'Tum'ah) and the Olas Beheimah (for his Safek Nezirus de'Taharah). Which two birds are we referring to?

(b) What happens to the ...

  1. ... Chatas ha'Of (which is normally eaten by the Kohanim), considering that he may be a Nazir Tahor, who does not bring birds?
  2. ... Olas ha'Of?
(c) Considering that he may not be a Muchlat, why is there no problem with his bringing the two birds?

(d) On the assumption that he is a Metzora or a Nazir Tamei, the Olas ha'Of is a Nedavah.
Then why does why does he bring it?

4)
(a) A Metzora is also obligated to bring an Asham (without which he cannot eat Kodshim, which means that he must have brought his Asham, in order not to be a Mechusar Kipurim).
What is the problem with bringing it?

(b) So we establish our Mishnah (which permits the Safek to eat Kodshim) like Rebbi Shimon.
What does Rebbi Shimon say?

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5)

(a) 'Tamei Safek u'Muchlat Vaday, Ochel be'Kodshim le'Achar Shemonah Yamim'. What does 'le'Achar Shemonah Yamim' mean?

(b) After shaving already on the first day, what is the procedure during the following week, and on the eighth day?

(c) What is the basis for the radical difference between the case in our Mishnah and this case?

6)
(a) Seeing as he might be a Nazir Tahor however, it is not possible to shave immediately.
So when does he perform his third shaving?

(b) And when will he be permitted to drink wine and become Tamei Meis?

(c) What is the order of precedence with regard to shaving in the case of a Nazir who is Vaday Muchlat, Safek Tamei?

7)
(a) 'Muchlat Safek ve'Tamei Vaday ... Ochel be'Kodshim le'Achar Sheloshim ve'Shiv'ah Yamim'. He does not shave immediately in case he is not a Muchlat.
So when does his first shaving take place?

(b) And when will he be permitted ...

  1. ... to shave and eat Kodshim?
  2. ... to drink wine and become Tamei Meis?
(c) 'Tamei Vaday u'Muchlat Vaday Ochel be'Kodshim le'Achar Shemonah Yamim'.
Why is that?

(d) And when will he be permitted to drink wine and to become Tamei Meis?

8)
(a) When they asked Rebbi Shimon bar Yochai whether a Nazir Tahor and Metzora Muchlat (before he has counted seven days) can get away with one shaving, what was his reason for answering in the negative?

(b) And why did he also answer in the negative with regard to a Nazir Tahor and the second shaving of a Muchlat (li'Yemei Sifro), seeing as the purpose of the latter too, is in order to remove the growth?

(c) Why then should one shaving not suffice for a Nazir Tamei who is also a Metzora (bi'Yemei Sifro), seeing as both shavings are in order to remove the hair?

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