Quoting%20commentary for Nazir 6:5

שְׁלשָׁה מִינִין אֲסוּרִין בַּנָּזִיר, הַטֻּמְאָה וְהַתִּגְלַחַת וְהַיּוֹצֵא מִן הַגָּפֶן. חֹמֶר בַּטֻּמְאָה וּבַתִּגְלַחַת מִבַּיּוֹצֵא מִן הַגֶּפֶן, שֶׁהַטֻּמְאָה וְהַתִּגְלַחַת סוֹתְרִין, וְהַיּוֹצֵא מִן הַגֶּפֶן אֵינוֹ סוֹתֵר. חֹמֶר בַּיּוֹצֵא מִן הַגֶּפֶן מִבַּטֻּמְאָה וּבַתִּגְלַחַת, שֶׁהַיּוֹצֵא מִן הַגֶּפֶן לֹא הֻתַּר מִכְּלָלוֹ, וְטֻמְאָה וְתִגְלַחַת הֻתְּרוּ מִכְּלָלָן בְּתִגְלַחַת מִצְוָה וּבְמֵת מִצְוָה. וְחֹמֶר בַּטֻּמְאָה מִבַּתִּגְלַחַת, שֶׁהַטֻּמְאָה סוֹתֶרֶת אֶת הַכֹּל וְחַיָּבִין עָלֶיהָ קָרְבָּן, וְתִגְלַחַת אֵינָהּ סוֹתֶרֶת אֶלָּא שְׁלשִׁים יוֹם וְאֵין חַיָּבִין עָלֶיהָ קָרְבָּן:

Three things are forbidden to a Nazirite: Uncleanliness, shaving, and what comes from the vine. A stringency of uncleanliness over shaving and what comes from the vine: Uncleanliness and shaving offset, [it being written in respect to uncleanliness (Numbers 6:12): "And the first days shall fall off"; and shaving offsets thirty, it being written (Ibid. 5): "He shall let grow the locks of his hair," which does not obtain in less than thirty days.] A stringency of what comes from the vine over uncleanliness and shaving: What comes from the vine — nothing in its class was permitted, [such as drinking wine of mitzvah, for we say (Ibid. 3): "From wine and strong drink shall he separate himself" — to forbid wine of mitzvah just as ordinary wine.] But uncleanliness and shaving — something in their class was permitted, with shaving of mitzvah and with a meth-mitzvah (a dead man who has no one to bury him) [(the permitting of uncleanliness for a meth-mitzvah (Ibid. 7): "For his father and his mother … he shall not become unclean" — For his father he may not become unclean, but he does become unclean for a meth-mitzvah. And shaving for a Nazirite who became leprous — the positive commandment of (Leviticus 14:9): "And he shall shave all his hair" coming and pushing aside the negative commandment of (Numbers 5): "A blade shall not pass over his head."] And a stringency of uncleanliness over shaving. For uncleanliness offsets the whole (Naziritism) and obliges one to bring an offering, whereas shaving offsets only thirty days and does not oblige one to bring an offering.

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