Se sua esposa abortou [e ele não sabia se era um nascimento vivo ou não], ele não se tornaria um nazireu. [Nossa Mishnah está de acordo com R. Yehudah, que diz que "ninguém se coloca em uma posição de dúvida", de modo que quando ele disse: "quando eu tenho um valad", ele quis dizer um definitivo (isto é, viver) valad.] R. Shimon diz: Ele deve dizer: "Se fosse vivo, sou nazirita por obrigação; se não, sou nazirita por eleição. [R. Shimon sustenta isso em um caso de dúvida sobre se alguém é ou não é um nazirita, a opção mais rigorosa deve ser seguida e, portanto, ele deve ser "um nazirita pela dúvida" e estipular: "Se fosse vivo, sou nazirita por obrigação; caso contrário, sou nazirita por eleição "; e ele se barbeia e traz suas ofertas no final de trinta dias. Sem essa estipulação, ele não poderia colocar uma oferta em dúvida. A halachá não está de acordo com R. Shimon.] Se ela deu à luz posteriormente, ele se torna um nazireu, [não tendo observado o naziritismo pelo aborto. E agora que ela deu à luz um filho vivo, o naziritismo entra em vigor.] R. Shimon diz: Ele deve dizer: "Se o primeiro estava vivo , então o primeiro era obrigação, e esta, eleição; e se não, o primeiro foi eleição, e esta obrigação. "[Segundo R. Shimon, é necessário estipular novamente, pois o primeiro pode ter sido vivido.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Nazir
הפילה אשתו – and he did not know if he was a living being or aborted/non-viable birth.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Nazir
Introduction
This mishnah is a continuation of yesterday’s mishnah where a man vowed to be a nazirite if he had a child. Our mishnah deals with a case where his wife miscarries. The question is, do we consider the miscarriage to be a case where the child was viable while in the womb, and hence he had a child or not.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Nazir
אינו נזיר – our Mishnah is [according to] Rabbi Yehuda who said that a person does not place down his soul on a doubt and if he states “when I will have a child,” he is speaking about a definitive child.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Nazir
If his wife miscarries, he does not become a nazirite. Rabbi Shimon says: [in this case] he should say, “If it was a viable child, behold, I am a nazirite from obligation; otherwise behold, I am a voluntary nazirite.” According to the first opinion, if his wife miscarries he is not a nazirite. Although there is some doubt that the child might have reached viability before the miscarriage, in cases of doubtful naziriteships the ruling is lenient. Rabbi Shimon is more concerned with the possibility that the child reached viability. Therefore, the one who vowed is considered a doubtful nazirite. The way that one observes this doubtful naziriteship is by saying that if the child was viable, then he is now serving a mandatory naziriteship. If, however the child was not viable, then his naziriteship is just from doubt. In any case, he must observe a naziriteship.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Nazir
רבי שמעון אומר יאמר אם היה בן קיימא וכו' – Rabbi Shimon holds hat a doubtful Naziriteship is judged stringently; therefore, he must be a Nazirite from doubt and makes a condition and states that if he is a viable fetus, I am a Naziritie out of obligation, and if not, I am a Nazirite out of free-choice, and he shaves and brings his [hair] sacrifices at the end of the thirty day period. But without the condition, he would not be able to bring the sacrifice from doubt, but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Nazir
If [his wife] later bears a child, he then becomes a nazirite. Rabbi Shimon says: he should say, “If the first was a viable child, the first [naziriteship] was obligatory, and this one is voluntary; otherwise, the first one was voluntary, and the present one is obligatory.” If after the first miscarriage his wife becomes again pregnant and this time has a child, according to the first opinion, he must now observe a naziriteship because he did not previously observe one. For Rabbi Shimon he cannot just simply observe another naziriteship because he may have fulfilled his vow when he previously served a naziriteship. However, if the first one was only voluntary, then he is still liable to serve an obligatory naziriteship for his original vow. Therefore, he again stipulates, that if the first naziriteship was obligatory (the fetus was viable), then the current one is only voluntary, but if the first one was voluntary (the fetus was not viable), then the current one is the obligatory naziriteship.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Nazir
חזרה וילדה הרי זה נזיר – for he did not practice Naziriteship on account of the non-viable birth/abortion. But now that she gave birth to a living child, the Nazirite [vow] takes effect and according to Rabbi Shimon, he must retract and make the condition for perhaps the first child was a viable child.
