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The Talmud analyzes this ruling of the Mishnah: A half-kav of bones, yes, a nazirite must shave if he contracts impurity from them; 1/4th-kav of bones, no, he does not. What are the circumstances? If we say that they contain bones that are a barley-grain-bulk, let the tanna of the Mishnah derive t
§ The Mishnah taught that a nazirite shaves for a limb severed from a corpse and for a limb severed from a living person, upon either of which there is a fitting quantity of flesh. The Talmud asks: If there is not a fitting quantity of flesh upon them, what is the halakha? R' Yoḥanan said: The nazi
The Talmud explains their respective opinions. R' Yoḥanan said: The nazirite does not shave for them, as the tanna teaches in the first clause of the Mishnah in the list of sources of ritual impurity for which a nazirite must shave: For a limb severed from a corpse and for a limb severed from a livi
And R' Shimon ben Lakish says that he shaves, employing the following reasoning: From the fact that the Mishnah does not teach the following in the latter clause, i.e., the subsequent Mishnah (54a), in the list of sources of impurity for which a nazirite need not shave: A limb that does not contai
And R' Yoḥanan could have said to you, in response to R' Shimon ben Lakish’s argument: The fact that the Mishnah omits this case from the list is not proof, as the tanna does not teach in the latter clause anything that can be understood by inference from the earlier Mishnah.