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The Talmud explains: The Mishnah states two different principles with regard to one who vows to provide the offering of a metzora on behalf of another. One principle applies to a destitute metzora for whom another destitute person takes a vow to provide his offering. In that case, he provides the of
The Talmud explains why this last ruling is necessary. It might enter your mind to say: Since the destitute were included in the verse: “And his means do not suffice,” with regard to the leniency which allows them to bring the offering of the destitute when taking vows to provide for destitute leper
Similarly, it is taught in a baraita: Since we find with regard to valuations that a destitute person who valuated a wealthy person gives the valuation in accordance with the means of a destitute person, one might have thought that in this case, where one takes a vow to provide the offering of a we
The Talmud objects: But according to the opinion of R' Yehuda HaNasi, this is difficult. As he says in the Mishnah: I say even with regard to valuations it is so, i.e., that if a wealthy person said: It is incumbent upon me to donate my valuation, and a destitute person heard him and said: It is in
The Talmud explains: The verse serves to exclude the case of a destitute metzora for whom a wealthy person takes a vow. In that case, it might enter your mind to say that since R' Yehuda HaNasi says: We follow the obligation of the original person specified as the subject of the vow, therefore the