If a man vows to be a Nazirite and then seeks release from a Sage but is forbidden [to annul his vow], he can reckon [the Naziriteship] from the time that the vow was made. If he seeks release from a Sage and is absolved and has an animal set aside [for a sacrifice], it goes forth to pasture with [the rest of] the herd. Beth Hillel said to Beth Shammai: do you not admit that here where the consecration is in error, [the animal] goes forth to pasture with the herd? Beth Shammai replied: do you not admit that if a man in error calls the ninth [animal], the tenth, or the tenth the ninth, or the eleventh the tenth, each becomes sacred? Beth Hillel retorted: it is not the rod that makes these sacred, for suppose that in error he placed the rod upon the eighth or upon the twelfth, would this have any effect? [the fact is] that Scripture which has declared the tenth to be sacred, has also declared sacred the ninth and the eleventh |
נזיר 5.3 |
If a man vows to be a Nazirite and on going to bring his animal [for the sacrifice] finds that it has been stolen, then if he had declared himself a Nazirite before the theft of his animal, he is [still] a Nazirite, , but if he had declared himself a Nazirite after the theft of his animal, he is not a Nazirite. It was on this point that Nahum the Mede fell into error when Nazirites arrived [in Jerusalem] from the Diaspora and found the Temple in ruins. Nahum the Mede said to them, `had you known that the Temple would be destroyed, would you have become Nazirites?` they answered, no, and so Nahum the Mede absolved them. When, however, the matter came to the notice of the Sages they said: whoever declared himself a Nazirite before the destruction of the Temple is a Nazirite, but if after the destruction of the Temple, he is not a Nazirite |
נזיר 5.4 |
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