(Wenn er sagte :) "Ich werde ein Nazirit sein, wenn ich einen Sohn habe" und ("Ich werde) ein Nazirit hundert Tage", wenn er bis siebzig Tage einen Sohn hatte, hat er nichts verloren. [Denn wenn er seinen eigenen Naziritismus aufhebt und den Naziritismus für seinen Sohn zählt und dann die Zählung der siebzig vervollständigt, die er gezählt hat, bis zu den hundert, die er gelobt hat, dh dreißig Tage, gibt es dreißig Tage zwischen der Rasur für der Naziritismus seines Sohnes und die Vollendung seines eigenen Naziritismus, so dass er nichts verloren hat.] (Wenn er einen Sohn hatte) nach siebzig Tagen wird der (zusätzlich zu) siebzig ausgeglichen, denn es gibt keine Rasur (nach) weniger als dreißig Tage. [Wenn er mehr als siebzig Tage gezählt hat, bevor er den Naziritismus seines Sohnes begonnen (gezählt) hat, und seinen eigenen Naziritismus ausgesetzt hat, um diesen zu beginnen—Wenn er sich für den Naziritismus seines Sohnes rasiert und die hundert, die er sich geschworen hat, vollendet, liegen weniger als dreißig Tage zwischen der Rasur für den Naziritismus seiner Söhne und der Rasur für seinen eigenen Naziritismus. Und es kann nicht weniger als dreißig Tage zwischen einer Rasur und einer anderen liegen, so dass festgestellt wird, dass er all die Tage verloren hat, die er über siebzig hinaus gezählt hat.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Nazir
עד שבעים לא הפסיד כלום – when he interrupts his Naziriteship and counts the Naziriteship for his son, and he shaves and returns and completes his own [for the completion] of his Naziriteship from the seventy that he had already counted until the one-hundred that he had vowed, they are thirty days that are found between shaving [his hair] of the Naziriteship of his son to the shaving of the completion of his Naziriteship which are thirty days, he does not lose anything. But if he counted more than seventy days before he began the Naziriteship for his son and he came to interrupt his own Naziriteship in order to begin the Naziriteship of his son, when he shaves on the Naziriteship of his son and he comes to complete his own Naziriteship until the one hundred days that he had vowed. If it was found that there were less than thirty days between shaving on his son’s Naziriteship and the shaving for his own Naziriteship, and it is impossible that there would be between each shaving less than thirty days, it is found that he loses all of those days that he counted above the seventy.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Nazir
Introduction
The final mishnah of chapter two continues to deal with nazirite vows made on the condition that the one vowing will have a son.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Nazir
[If one says] “Behold, I am a nazirite when I shall have a son, and I will be a nazirite for one hundred days [on my own account],”: if a son was born to him before the expiration of seventy days, he loses none of this period; but if after seventy days, it voids [anything over the] seventy days, since there can be no shaving for a period of less than thirty days. A person vows to serve a regular naziriteship of thirty days if he has a son, and he also vows to be a nazirite for 100 days. This situation is similar to that described at the end of yesterday’s mishnah. He begins to serve his own naziriteship immediately, as we learned yesterday. If his son is born before he serves seventy days of his own naziriteship, then he will lose nothing of the days that he has already served. What he will do in this case is serve a thirty day naziriteship for his son, and then go back and serve the remaining days of his own naziriteship. However, if his son is born after he has served seventy days, he will lose credit for some of the days which he has served towards his own 100 day naziriteship. In this case he will serve the thirty days for his son’s naziriteship and then complete his naziriteship with another thirty days. If he had previously served eighty days, he will serve a term of 110 days for his own naziriteship, thereby serving an extra ten days. This is because a term of naziriteship can never be less than thirty days. According to the Rambam, this mishnah clarifies the end of yesterday’s mishnah. There, when we learned that he goes back and counts his own naziriteship, the intention was that he must in all cases count at least thirty days.
