Wenn einer sagte: "Ich werde ein Nazirit sein", und sein Nachbar hörte und sagte: "Und ich" und (sein Nachbar :) "Und ich", wurden sie alle Naziriten. [Dies unter der Bedingung, dass jeder von ihnen die Worte seines Nachbarn "festhält" (nach nicht länger als einer Zeitspanne), braucht ein Schüler, um seinen Meister zu begrüßen, nämlich zu ihm zu sagen: "Friede sei mit dir, mein Meister. "] Wenn die ersten (von seinem Gelübde) freigesprochen wurden, sind alle freigesprochen. Wenn die letzten freigesprochen wurden, ist die letzte erlaubt und alle anderen verboten. Wenn einer sagte: "Ich werde ein Nazirit sein", und sein Nachbar hörte und sagte: "Mein Mund als sein Mund" oder "Mein Haar als sein Haar" [Er muss sagen: "Mein Mund ist wie sein Mund aus Wein, "und" Mein Haar ist wie sein Haar vom Rasieren. "], er wird ein Nazirit. Wenn einer sagte: "Ich werde ein Nazirit", und seine Frau hörte und sagte: "Und ich", kann er ihre und seine sterblichen Überreste annullieren. Wenn sie sagte: "Ich werde ein Nazirit sein", und ihr Mann hörte und sagte: "Und ich", kann er es nicht annullieren. [Denn er ließ ihr Gelübde bereits stehen, indem er sagte: "Und ich." Und wenn eine Frau schwor, ein Nazirit zu sein, und eine andere hörte und sagte: "Und ich", und danach ihr Ehemann ihr Gelübde annullierte, wird es nicht für den anderen annulliert, der sagte: "Und ich", für einen Ehemann nicht entwurzle ein Gelübde von Anfang an wie ein Weiser.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Nazir
מי שאמר הריני נזיר. כולם נזירים – and he who caused each one of them to be seized within the time that is needed for an utterance by his fellow incidentally while the student greets his teacher, which is in order that he can say, “peace be upon you, my teacher [and rabbi].”
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English Explanation of Mishnah Nazir
Introduction This mishnah teaches that a person can become a nazirite by seeing his friend take a nazirite vow and saying “I too.” The Talmud teaches that in order for this to be effective he must state “I too” as soon as he hears his friend vow, for only in such a way is it clear that he has vowed.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Nazir
פי כפיו כו' – and he that would say, “my mouth is like his mouth [concerning abstention] from wine and my hair is like his hair from being sheared.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Nazir
One who said, “Behold, I am a nazirite”, and his friend overheard and said “I too,” [and another one said] “I too”, all are nazirites. If the first one is released [from his vow], all are released. If the last one is released, he alone is released, and the others remain bound [by their vows]. The mishnah teaches that it is effective to state “I too” when one hears another take a nazirite vow. In this case, each person who took a later vow is dependent upon the earlier vows. If the first person asks a sage to release him from his vow, a process which we learned about in chapter nine of Nedarim, the latter are also released from their vows. In contrast, if the latter nazirites are released, those who vowed earlier are not released.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Nazir
ושמע בעלה ואמר ואני אינו יכול להפר – for he already fulfilled her vow when he said: “and I [too],” but if his wife made a vow to be a Nazirite and another person heard it and said, “and I [also],” and afterwards her husband annulled it, it is not annulled for this one who said, “an I [also],” for the husband cannot abrogate a vow from its essence like a Sage.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Nazir
If he said, “Behold, I am a nazirite”, and his companion overheard and said, “My mouth shall be as his mouth and my hair as his hair”, he becomes a nazirite. Besides saying “I too” he may also employ other hints that he wishes his status to be like that of the one who vowed. He may say that just as the other’s mouth cannot taste wine, so too my mouth cannot taste wine, or just as the other does not cut his hair, so too I won’t cut my hair. These are all clear enough statements in order to make him a nazirite.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Nazir
[If he said,] “Behold, I am a nazirite,” and his wife overheard and said, “I too,” he can annul her vow, but his own remains binding. [If a woman says,] “Behold, I am a nazirite”, and her husband overhears and adds, “I too,” he cannot annul her vow. A wife can make her nazirite vow depend on her husband's by saying “I too.” He can annul her vow, since this is a vow that has in it the element of self-denial. If he annuls her vow, his is still valid because his does not depend on hers. However, if he makes his vow dependent on hers, he cannot annul her vow. This is because saying “I too” is a means of affirming her vow, and once a husband affirms his wife’s vow he can no longer annul it.
