Daf Yomi Nazir

Nazir 2a and Nazir 2b, getting started with an analysis of the order of the mishnah, why Nazir is in Seder Nashim, and then how yadot work with a nazir.

Nazir 3a and Nazir 3b, languages people use to create a nezirut.

Nazir 4a and Nazir 4b, whether nazir can stop one from drinking mitzvah wine, and the differene between a Nezir Shimshon and a Nezir Olam

Nazir 5a and Nazir 5b, how long a lifelong nazir must wait before cutting his/her hair, the minimum length of a nezirut, and how we know.

Nazir 6a and Nazir 6b, continuing to weigh R. Matna and Bar Peda against Tannaitic sources, to see whether nezirut is a minimum of 29 or 30 days.

Nazir 7a and Nazir 7b, ways of delineating the length of time of a nezirut and what they mean.

Nazir 8a and Nazir 8b, figuring out the length of commitments to nezirut, depending on the wording.

Nazir 9a and Nazir 9b, muddled language of a vow to be a nazir, and how to understand it.

Nazir 10a and Nazir 10b, two ways to explain why today’s Mishnah– a commitment to be a nazir from meat and/or from a door– doesn’t just replicate yesterday’s Mishnah about dried figs.

Nazir 11a and Nazir 11b, three Mishnayot with situations where we are unclear as to the commitment a person made.

Nazir 12a and Nazir 12b, the limits of agency, what we can and cannot make agents for .

Nazir 13a and Nazir 13b, unclear conditions to start a nezirut and intersecting periods of nezirut.

Nazir 14a and Nazir 14b, intersecting periods of nezirut and how they interact.

Nazir 15a and Nazir 15b, how the last day of a nezirut can or cannot count twice.

Nazir 16a and Nazir 16b, becoming ritually impure at the end of a period of nezirut or even after, and how it affects the nazir.

Nazir 17a and Nazir 17b, how taking a vow while already tamei differs from being a nazir and then becoming tamei.

Nazir 18a and Nazir 18b, still nailing down when the 7th day of becoming tahor and when the 8th day are the crucial ones.

Nazir 19a and Nazir 19b, a nazir who has contact with the deceased either during or at the beginning of his/her nezirut, including thoughts on the sin in becoming a nazir.

Nazir 20a and Nazir 20b, nezirut made outside of Israel and brought to Israel, varying testimonies about how many periods of nezirut were undertaken, and the workings of nezirut based on someone else’s acceptance.

Nazir 21a and Nazir 21b, in whom in a chain of people am I attaching my nezirut if I say, and me? Does the husband retroactively uproot a wife’s nezirut, or cut it off?

Nazir 22a and Nazir 22b, figuring out whether a husband uproots a wife’s vow retroactively, whether there is leftover sin even from a retroactively uprooted sin, and how people connect to other people’s vows, with what effect.

Nazir 23a and Nazir 23b, the interplay of intention and action in determining culpability or credit for sins and mitzvot.

Nazir 24a and Nazir 24b, what happens with money or animals set aside for sacrifices that don’t come to fruition.

Nazir 25a and Nazir 25b, rules for a hatat and an asham, when they can be converted to something else and when not, as well as some discussion of the difference between halachah le-Moshe mi-Sinai and halachot in the Torah.

Nazir 26a and Nazir 26b, a really quick Daf, taking up issues of when we think an owner has set aside animals, monies, or other items with a greater or lesser specificity, affecting what we can do with them.

Nazir 27a and Nazir 27b, trying to figure out what counts as well-defined for donations of sacrifices for a nazir.

Nazir 28a and Nazir 28b, until when in the course of a nezirut can a husband break (be mefer) a wife’s commitment to nezirut, then starting the idea of a father committing his son to a nezirut.

Nazir 29a and Nazir 29b, the debate between R. Yochanan and Resh Lakish as to whether the father can declare his son a nazir as an halachah le Moshe mi Sinai, or as a matter of education, and then also the debate between Rebbe and R. Yose b. R. Yehudah on whether this right extends all the way to adulthood.

Nazir 30a and Nazir 30b, how a man might be able to use his father’s money for his own nezirut.

Nazir 31a and Nazir 31b, the question of hekdesh be-ta’ut, erroneous dedication to the Beit HaMikdash.

Nazir 32a and Nazir 32b, errors we can make in dedicating items or ourselves to hekdesh, and their impact on the neder.

Nazir 33a and Nazir 33b, a very short Daf, the text of the Gemara is about the kinds of conditions people can or cannot put on being a nazir, and then I reviewed some Tosafot on points from the previous 2 dapim (but printed here).

Nazir 34a and Nazir 34b, finishing the topic of errors and doubts within a commitment to nezirut, starting on defining the prohibitions of being a nazir.

Nazir 35a and Nazir 35b, sorting out the ways of deriving ideas from groupings of specific and general language, either a kelal u-perat u-kelal, or a ribui miut ve-ribui, or a perat u-kelal u-perat.

Nazir 36a and Nazir 36b, ways in which mixtures of various sorts do or do not create full violations of the Torah.

Nazir 37a and Nazir 37b, figuring out the sources for concepts regarding prohibitions, whether that permissible material combines with the prohibited, or the taste counts as if the original is there.

Nazir 38a and Nazir 38b, the ways revi’it plays a role, in both red and clear liquids, and then back to the nazir prohibitions and how they work.

Nazir 39a and Nazir 39b, the prohibition on removing hair, and how it is or is not violated.

Nazir 40a and Nazir 40b, finding sources for the requirement to use a razor in closing nezirut, tzara’at, and the Levi’im at their dedication.

Nazir 41a and Nazir 41b, figuring out how Rabbanan and R. Eliezer learned that a metzora is supposed to use a razor, and how we know that an obligation can push aside a prohibition.

Nazir 42a and Nazir 42b, rules of hair removal, intentional or accidental, and then of becoming tamei by contact with the deceased.

Nazir 43a and Nazir 43b, ways to have the tumah of entry happen at the exact moment as the tumah of contact; when a kohen cannot be in the presence of someone who is dying; and how whole a body must be for a relative kohen to be allowed to have contact with it.

Nazir 44a and Nazir 44b, the stringencies and leniencies of wine drinking, becoming tamei, and/or haircutting for a nazir, and then the difference between nazir and metzora in counting days to end their status.

Nazir 45a and Nazir 45b, how the nazir shaves and brings sacrifices upon successful completion of the nezirut.

Nazir 46a and Nazir 46b,what’s needed to end a nezirut.

Nazir 47a and Nazir 47b, finishing the chapter with what to do if the nazir becomes tamei in the midst of the sacrificial closing process, and then priorities of who should become tamei for a met mitzvah.

Nazir 48a and Nazir 48b, deriving the right/responsibility of a nazir to be involved with the burial of someone who has no one else to bury him/her, the permissibility of forms of tum’ah other than those created by deceased humans, and the need to be involved with a met mitzvah despite being on the way to a very important observance.

Nazir 49a and Nazir 49b, finishing R. Akiva’s derivations of the right to bury a met mitzvah, and then on to what body parts create the status of tum’ah for which a nazir has to restart his/her nezirut.

Nazir 50a and Nazir 50b, what kinds and amounts of impurity cause a nazir to have to start over.

Nazir 51a and Nazir 51b, rekev, decomposed dust, and how it can and cannot be made for conveying tum’ah.

Nazir 52a and Nazir 52b, mostly trying to prove whether the spine and skull can each convey full tum’ah causing a nazir to have to stop, shave, become tahor  and bring korbanot before returning to nezirut, or we need both.

Nazir 53a and Nazir 53b, whether just the skull or spine can create tum’ah for a nazir to shave, and whether a small bone creates any tum’ah at all.

Nazir 54a and Nazir 54b, working on whether R. Yohanan or Resh Lakish is right about the minimum size of bones conveying tum’ah, and then types of tum’ah that do not require a nazir to shave.

Nazir 55a and Nazir 55b, finishing up with the debate about large containers passing over areas outside of Israel, and then with how tzara’at affects the count of

Nazir 56a and Nazir 56b, when the nazir can or cannot shave, and how that relates to other issues of tum’ah.

Nazir 57a and Nazir 57b, when two nezirim are told that one of them has become tamei.

Nazir 58a and Nazir 58b, the sources for allowing a nazir to shave for tzara’at, and how an aseh pushes aside a lo ta’aseh.

Nazir 59a and Nazir 59b, men shaving their body hair as part  of a discussion of the prohibition to cross dress, then back to when there are doubts about a nazir‘s tum’ah status and how to resolve it.

Nazir 60a and Nazir 60b, when multiple issues collide, and why one shaving can’t count for two needs.

Nazir 61a and Nazir 61b, how we know a non-Jew cannot become a nazir.

Nazir 62a and Nazir 62b, working out what applies to a non-Jew in nazir, in vows, in arakhin.

Nazir 63a and Nazir 63b, the idea of tum’at ha-tehom, hidden tum’ah, and how it affects a nazir and others.

Nazir 64a and Nazir 64b, floating tum’ah and other doubts about when we have to assume we are tamei.

Nazir 65a and Nazir 65b, what requires us to assume we have discovered a hidden cemetery, and where prior context affects how we interpret possible tzara’at and/or zivah events.

Nazir 66a and Nazir 66b. Finishing, but not quite, in case you want a siyyum for Erev Pesach. And if you need a summary to decide to listen, we’ve already lost.