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and set it down in a cemetery, where nobody is found, and sound 1,000, i.e., many, shofar blasts over the course of 40 days. That man went and did this. The jug burst and the violent man died. The Talmud asks: What is the reason that shofarot are sounded when a decree of ostracism is pronounced?
The Talmud asks further: What is the reason that broken blasts are sounded on the shofar when the excommunication is pronounced? Rav Yitzḥak, son of Rav Yehuda, said: It breaks tall buildings, i.e., a decree of ostracism can harm and break even the high and mighty, as it is taught in a baraita: Rab
§ It is taught in the Mishnah: And the nazirite whose term of naziriteship ended on the intermediate days of a Festival, and the metzora who needs to purify himself on the intermediate days and must shave his entire body in order to leave his state of ritual impurity and regain his ritual purity, t
He said to him: We already learned this in a baraita: With regard to all those about whom the rabbis said that they are permitted to cut their hair on the intermediate days of a Festival, they may do so only if they did not have time to cut their hair before the Festival. But if they had time befor
However, a nazirite and a metzora, even if they had the time to do so before the Festival, they are permitted to cut their hair. Why are they granted this special allowance? So that they will not delay bringing their offerings. Both a nazirite and a metzora must cut their hair before sacrificing th