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The Talmud answers: Here, with regard to impurity, it is different, as God states in the Torah: “And he defile his consecrated head” (Numbers 6:9), which indicates that even one whose naziriteship is dependent only upon his head, i.e., one who has completed his naziriteship other than shaving, is
Mishnah: In the case of one who said: I am hereby a nazirite when I will have a son, and he added: I am hereby a nazirite from now for 100 days, and he then began observing the 100 days of his naziriteship, if a son is born to him up to 70 days from the start of his naziriteship he has not lost an
Talmud: Rav said: The 70th day itself counts for here and for there, as the last of the 70 days of his term of naziriteship as well as the 1st day of the naziriteship for his son. The Talmud questions Rav’s statement. We learned in the Mishnah: If a son is born to him up to 70, he has not lost any
The Talmud asks further: Come and hear a statement that contradicts Rav’s opinion from the last clause of the Mishnah: If the son is born after 70 days, it negates the first 70 days. If, as Rav stated, one day can count for both terms, then the final day of the 30-day term for his son also counts to
The Talmud asks: But according to this explanation, what would be the halakha if a son is born on the day that actually comes after the 70th, the 70-first day; so too, would Rav say that it does not negate the previous days, because he has 30 days remaining to grow his hair? If so, why does the tan