Mesorat%20hashas for Nazir 3:4

הֲרֵינִי נָזִיר מֵאָה יוֹם, נִטְמָא יוֹם מֵאָה, סוֹתֵר אֶת הַכֹּל. רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, אֵינוֹ סוֹתֵר אֶלָּא שְׁלשִׁים. נִטְמָא יוֹם מֵאָה וְאֶחָד, סוֹתֵר שְׁלשִׁים יוֹם. רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, אֵינוֹ סוֹתֵר אֶלָּא שִׁבְעָה:

(If one said:) "I shall be a Nazirite for a hundred days," if he became unclean on the hundredth day, he offsets the whole. [The rabbis are consistent with their view that if one becomes unclean on the day of fulfillment, it is as if he became unclean in the middle of his time, and he offsets the whole.] R. Eliezer says: He offsets only thirty, [holding that one who became unclean on the day of fulfillment offsets only thirty.] If he became unclean on the hundred and first day, he offsets thirty days. [The rabbis rule that he offsets thirty days, decreeing the hundred and first day, the day of shaving, by reason of the hundredth day. In any event, they were not so stringent with him as to make it like the hundredth day, the day of fulfillment, which offsets the whole. They decreed only that it offset general Naziritism, which is thirty days.] R. Eliezer sys: It offsets only seven. [He is consistent with his view that even on the thirtieth day they did not decree (offsetting), when he had said: "I shall be a Nazirite," unqualified.]

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