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at the roots of their hair. You can learn from it that hair grows from the bottom, as the new hair is not dyed. The Talmud concludes: Indeed, learn from it that it is so.
The Talmud asks: But what about this halakha that is taught in a baraita: With regard to a nazirite who was shaved by bandits, and they left him with enough hair to bend its end to its root, this does not negate the days of his naziriteship. And if it should enter your mind that hair grows from the
The Talmud asks: What is the reason of R' Eliezer? The Talmud answers: He derives the halakha of the shaving of ritual purity at the end of his term of naziriteship (see Numbers 6:18) from the shaving of impurity (see Numbers 6:9): Just as with the shaving of impurity, if he became impure on the d
And the rabbis, including R' Eliezer, have an accepted tradition that every 7 days hair grows enough to bend its end to its root. Consequently, if this amount of hair remained after he was shaved on the day of the completion of his naziriteship, he does not forfeit any days and need not wait any l
§ The Mishnah taught: With regard to a nazirite who shaved his hair, whether he did so with scissors or with a razor, or if he pulled out any amount, he is liable. A baraita states: The Torah states with regard to a nazirite: “A razor shall not come upon his head” (Numbers 6:5). I have derived onl