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in the manner that it specified with regard to a nazirite: “From pits to grape skin” (Numbers 6:4). The Talmud asks: And according to the opinion of R' Elazar ben Azarya, who establishes this verse: “From pits to grape skin” (Numbers 6:4), as serving to say that a nazirite is liable only if he eats
And if you wish, say instead that R' Elazar ben Azarya holds in accordance with the opinion of the Rabbis that this is a case of a detail, a generalization, and a detail. As, if it should enter your mind that the verse is merely teaching that which was stated by R' Elazar ben Azarya, let God write t
The Talmud asks: But if so, you can say that the entire phrase comes only for this purpose, for a generalization and a detail, and R' Elazar ben Azarya should not derive his halakha, that a nazirite is liable only if he eats two grape seeds and a grape skin, from this verse at all. The Talmud answer
The Talmud asks: And R' Elazar, who interprets by the method of restriction and amplification that even tendrils and the leaves of a grapevine are included in the prohibition, from where does he derive the method of a detail, a generalization, and a detail?
R' Abbahu says: He derives it from this verse, which deals with a bailee: “And if a man deliver to his neighbor a donkey, or an ox, or a sheep, or any animal to guard, and it dies…the oath of YHWH shall be between them both” (Exodus 22:9). The phrase “a donkey, or an ox, or a sheep” is a detail; “