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1) ONE WHO ACCEPTS PARTIAL NEZIRUS

(a) Objection: The Torah does not require one to drink wine for Kidush and Havdalah!
(b) Answer #2 (Rava): He swore that he would drink wine, then accepted Nezirus.

1. The Nezirus takes effect and he is forbidden to drink wine.

(c) Question: Chachamim should also learn that "Wine and strong drink" comes to forbid wine of a Mitzvah!
(d) Answer: We can learn that from "Wine" alone; "And strong drink" comes to teach that it suffices to accept 1 prohibition of Nezirus.
(e) Question: What does R. Shimon learn from "And strong drink"?
(f) Answer #1: He learns a Gezeirah Shaveh to "Wine and strong drink" written regarding the prohibition to serve in the Temple when drunk.

1. Just as a Nazir is prohibited to drink wine and permitted other intoxicating drinks, also a Kohen may not serve after drinking wine, but is permitted after other intoxicating drinks - unlike R. Yehudah.

i. (Beraisa - R. Yehudah): If one ate figs of Ke'ilis and drank honey and milk and entered the Temple, he is liable (to death at the hands of Heaven).

(g) Answer #2: R. Shimon does not hold that a 2nd prohibition takes effect on something which is already forbidden (Tosfos - and he uses "And strong drink" to teach that Nezirus adds a prohibition to wine which is already forbidden; Rosh - "And strong drink" is his source for this).

1. (Beraisa - R. Shimon): One who eats from an unslaughtered animal on Yom Kipur is exempt (from Kares for eating on Yom Kipur).

(h) Question: What do Chachamim learn from "All that is made from the grapevine"?
(i) Answer: This teaches that all foods forbidden to a Nazir are combined to obligate him lashes for eating an olive's worth.

1. This is not applicable according to R. Shimon.

i. (Beraisa - R. Shimon): One is lashed for eating any amount of a food forbidden by Chaivei Lavin - the quantity of an olive is only relevant to the obligation to bring a sacrifice.

(a) (Mishnah): I am as Shimshon, as Mano'ach's son, as Delilah's husband; or, the one that uprooted the doors of Azah; or, the one whose eyes were gouged out by the Philistines - he is a Nazir Shimshon.
(b) (Gemara) Question: Why must all these be taught?
(c) Answer: Had it only said, I am as Shimshon - we would have thought, as another Shimshon - therefore, he needs to say as Mano'ach's son;

1. Had it only said, I am as Shimshon, Mano'ach's son - we would have thought, another man has that name - therefore, he needs to say as Delilaah's husband or the one whose eyes were gouged out by the Philistines.

(d) (Mishnah): What is the difference between a Nazir Olam and a Nazir Shimshon? A Nazir Olam may lighten his hair with a razor when it is too long, and he brings the 3 sacrifices of a Nazir; if he became Tamei, he brings the sacrifices of a Nazir Tamei;
(e) A Nazir Shimshon cannot cut his hair, even if it is long; if he becomes Tamei, he does not bring sacrifices.
(f) (Gemara) Question: Nazir Olam was not mentioned before (that we should ask how it is different from a Nazir Shimshon)!
(g) Answer: The Mishnah is abbreviated; it should read thusly: One who says, 'I am a Nazir Olam' - he is a Nazir Olam;

1. What is the difference between a Nazir Olam and a Nazir Shimshon? A Nazir Olam may lighten his hair with a razor when it is too long, and he brings the 3 sacrifices of a Nazir; if he became Tamei, he brings the sacrifices of a Nazir Tamei;
2. A Nazir Shimshon cannot cut his hair, even if it is long; if he becomes Tamei, he does not bring sacrifices.

(h) We infer - he does not bring sacrifices, but it is forbidden to become Tamei.
(i) Question: The Mishnah is not as R. Yehudah, nor as R. Shimon!

1. (Beraisa - R. Yehudah): A Nazir Shimshon may become Tamei to a corpse, as we find by Shimshon;
2. R. Shimon says, acceptance to be a Nazir Shimshon has no effect - we do not find that Shimshon verbally accepted Nezirus.

i. The Mishnah is not as R. Yehudah - he says, a Nazir Shimshon may become Tamei!
ii. It is not as R. Shimon - he says, a person does not become a Nazir Shimshon!

(j) Answer: The Mishnah is as R. Yehudah; he may become Tamei l'Chatchilah.

1. Since it says by a Nazir Olam, if he became Tamei (b'Di'eved), the same language was used by a Nazir Shimshon.

(k) Suggestion: R. Yehudah and R. Shimon argue as the following Tana'im.

1. (Beraisa): 'This is forbidden to me as a firstborn (male) animal' - R. Yakov says, the vow takes effect; R. Yosi says, it does not.
2. Suggestion: R. Yehudah holds as R. Yakov, that a vow can forbid an object without equating it to an object forbidden by a vow; R. Shimon holds as R. Yosi, a vow must equate the object to an object forbidden by a vow.

(l) Rejection: No, all hold that a vow must equate the object to an object forbidden by a vow; R. Yakov expounds "To Hash-m" (in the verse of vowing) to teach that one may equate the object to a firstborn animal.

1. R. Yosi expounds "To Hash-m" to teach that one may equate the object to a sin-offering or guilt-offering.

(m) Question: Why does R. Yosi learn that one may equate the object to a sin-offering or guilt-offering, and not to a firstborn animal?
(n) Answer: Sin and guilt offerings are sanctified by man, but a firstborn animal is sanctified automatically when it is born.

1. R. Yakov holds that a firstborn animal is also sanctified by man.

i. (Beraisa - Rabeinu's house): "The male you will sanctify" - this is a Mitzvah to sanctify a firstborn animal.

2. R. Yosi admits that there is a Mitzvah to proclaim its sanctity - but its sanctity does not depend on this.

(o) Question: Regarding Nazir, it also says, "To Hash-m" (R. Shimon should admit, this comes to include Nazir Shimshon)!
(p) Answer: He learns from "To Hash-m" as Shimon ha'Tzadik.

1. (Beraisa - Shimon ha'Tzadik): In all my days, I only ate from one guilt-offering of a Nazir Tamei. The man was beautiful, especially his hair.

i. Shimon ha'Tzadik: Why did you become a Nazir, which requires you to cut off your beautiful hair?
ii. The Nazir: I saw my reflection, and my evil inclination was obsessed with my beauty - this would ruin my life! I countered - do not pride yourself with a world which is not yours - the body stands to become worms! I will shave off this hair to Hash-m (by becoming a Nazir)!
iii. Shimon ha'Tzadik kissed him. 'There should be more Nezirim as you - this is the fulfillment of "One that will vow to be a Nazir to Hash-m"!'

(a) Question: Was Shimshon really not a Nazir?

1. "The youth will be a Nazir to Hash-m from the womb"!

(b) Answer: The angel said that - neither Shimshon nor his father vowed that he would be a Nazir.
(c) Question: How do we know that Shimshon became Tamei?

1. Suggestion: If from "I killed 1000 men with the jawbone of a donkey" - perhaps he threw it at them without touching them, and never became Tamei!

(d) Answer #1: Rather, from "He hit 30 men and took their garments".

1. Question: Perhaps he took the garments before killing them!
2. Answer: It says he hit them before taking their garments.
3. Question: Perhaps they did not die from the blow, just became on the verge of death!

(e) Answer #2: Rather, we know this from tradition.

(a) Question: What is the source for a Nazir Olam?
(b) Answer (Beraisa - Rebbi): Avshalom was a Nazir Olam - "At the end of 40 years, Avshalom said to the king, 'I will go to fulfill what I vowed to Hash-m, in Chevron.'";
(c) He cuts his hair once a year - "It was at the end of days".