Se um dos sangue fosse aspergido por ele e ele se tornasse impuro, R. Eliezer diz: Ele compensa tudo. [Nem todos os dias (do naziritismo), mas todas as ofertas. R. Eliezer é consistente com sua opinião de que o nazireu não tem permissão para beber vinho até todos os (atos mencionados acima), após a apresentação de todas as ofertas. Assim, quando ele se tornou impuro antes de oferecer a todos eles, é como se ele se tornasse impuro pela manhã, antes de oferecer qualquer um deles. E a oferta que ele trouxe é considerada como tendo sido trazida antes do "cumprimento" (de seu naziritismo).] E os sábios dizem: Ele pode trazer as outras ofertas e ficar limpo. [(Ou seja, quando ele se torna limpo.) E ele não precisa trazer novamente a oferta que ele trouxe quando estava limpo. Os rabinos são consistentes com sua visão (6: 9) de que, após um único ato, é permitido beber vinho e fazer a barba. Portanto, antes de se tornar impuro, ele estava apto a fazer a barba, e essa oferta não é compensada. Mas as outras ofertas, que ele sacrificou após se tornar impuro, certamente são compensadas, as Escrituras exigindo que todas as ofertas naziritas sejam trazidas em limpeza.] Eles disseram a ele. Aconteceu com Miriam the Tarmodith [(de Tarmod)] que um dos sangue foi aspergido por ela e eles vieram e disseram a ela que sua filha estava gravemente doente—então ela foi e descobriu que tinha morrido. E os sábios disseram: "Que ela traga as outras ofertas e se torne limpo".
Bartenura on Mishnah Nazir
ר"א אומר סותר את הכל – he doesn’t lose all of the days as is stated, but loses all of the sacrifices, and Rabbi Eliezer, according to his reasoning, who stated that the Nazirite is not permitted to drink wine [at this point], but rather, after all of the deeds [together], after the bringing of all of the sacrifices. And when he became defiled prior to bringing all of them, it is as if he became defiled in the morning prior to offering in the name of any of them, and it is that this sacrifice that he offered is as if he had brought them while being filled.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Nazir
Introduction
This mishnah deals with a situation where a nazirite began to have his sacrifices offered and then during the process, he became impure through contact with a dead body. The question is, when he becomes clean, does he have to bring again the sacrifice(s) which was already offered.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Nazir
וחכמים אומרים יביא שאר קרבנותיו ויטהר – an explanation: that when he will become [ritually] pure, and that sacrifice which he brought in purity, he should not go back and bring it. Our Rabbis, according to their reasoning who stated that after the single action, it is permitted to drink wine and it is permitted to shave/cut his hair. Therefore, prior to his becoming defiled, it was appropriate to shave/cut his hair and not lose that sacrifice, but the other sacrifices that he offered, from when he became defiled certainly he loses, for the Biblical verse is strict that all of the Nazirite sacrifices should be offered in [ritual] purity.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Nazir
If [a nazirite] on whose behalf one kind of blood has been sprinkled becomes unclean, Rabbi Eliezer says: everything is annulled. But the Sages say: he should bring his remaining sacrifices after purification. They said to him: it happened that Miriam the Tadmorite had one kind of blood sprinkled on her behalf, and they came and told her that her daughter was dangerously ill. She went and found her dead and the sages told her to offer her remaining sacrifices after purification. The topic of this mishnah is a nazirite who became impure after one of her sacrifices had been slaughtered and its blood sprinkled on the altar, but before the other sacrifices had undergone this process. According to Rabbi Eliezer, her becoming impure annuls all of her sacrifices, even the one whose blood had already been spilled. Therefore, she must wait seven days to become pure and then bring a new set of sacrifices. In contrast, the sages hold that the sacrifice whose blood had already been sprinkled counts and that after becoming pure, she need bring only the sacrifices that had not yet been offered. The sages prove their point by bringing a story of where this actually happened. As a side note, it is interesting that the two stories of nazirites which we have encountered, the story regarding Queen Helena and this one, involve women. While it may be imprudent to make any conclusions from such scanty evidence, perhaps taking nazirite vows was a form of religious expression common, at least relatively speaking, among women.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Nazir
מרים התרמודית – She was from Tarmod, and the Halakha is according to the Sages.
