(Se dicesse :) "Sarò un nazirita quando avrò un figlio" e ("Sarò) un nazirita per cento giorni", se avesse avuto un figlio per settanta giorni, non avrebbe perso nulla. [Perché quando sospende il proprio naziritismo e conta il naziritismo per suo figlio, e quindi completa il conteggio dei settanta che ha contato fino al centinaio che ha giurato, cioè trenta giorni, ci sono trenta giorni tra la rasatura per il naziritismo di suo figlio e il completamento del suo stesso naziritismo, in modo che non abbia perso nulla.] (Se avesse avuto un figlio) dopo settanta giorni, il (in aggiunta a) settanta è compensato, poiché non c'è rasatura (dopo) di meno di trenta giorni. [Se contava più di settanta giorni prima di iniziare (contando) il naziritismo di suo figlio e sospendere il proprio naziritismo per iniziare quest'ultimo—quando si rade per il naziritismo di suo figlio e arriva a completare i cento che ha giurato per se stesso, ci sono stati meno di trenta giorni tra la rasatura per il naziritismo dei suoi figli e la rasatura per il proprio naziritismo. E non ci possono essere meno di trenta giorni tra una rasatura e l'altra, così si scopre che ha perso tutti quei giorni che ha contato oltre i settanta.]
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.
