Nazir 13B

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should be understood in light of the fact that the matter is embarrassing for him, the second person is likely to mean that he will become a nazirite upon the birth of a child to the first person, as he will be embarrassed to seem indifferent about the birth of the child to the person standing befo

Mishnah: In a case where one said: I am hereby a nazirite now, and I will be a nazirite when I will have a son, and he began counting his own term of naziriteship, i.e., his first vow, and afterward in the middle of this naziriteship period a son was born to him, he first completes his own initia

Talmud: In light of the ruling of the Mishnah, Rava asks: If one said: I am hereby a nazirite for a standard term of 30 days and will begin observing it after 20 days, and I am also a nazirite from now for 100 days, what is the halakha? Should one say that since these 100 days of naziriteship are

The Talmud asks: And let him raise this dilemma with regard to a short term of naziriteship, when fewer than 30 days would remain if he suspended the first term of naziriteship in order to observe the other. The Talmud answers: He raises one dilemma as a result of the other. In other words, Rava’s