73 Nazir 7/4 & 8/1

(4) Rabbi Eliezer said in the name of Rabbi Yehoshua: "Any impurity from a corpse for which a nazir shaves, one is liable for it [if] one enters the Temple. And any impurity from a corpse for which a nazir does not shave, one is not liable for it [if] one enters the Temple." Rabbi Meir said: "This should not be less stringent than [the impurity caused by] a sheretz [creeping animal]." Rabbi Akiva said: "I have disputed before Rabbi Eliezer, 'Just as a bone [the size] of a barley corn does not defile a person under a tent and a nazir shaves for touching it or carrying it, for a revi'it of blood which does defile a man under a tent - should it not also be the rule that a nazir shaves for touching it or carrying it?' He replied to me, 'What is this, Akiva? We are not ruling here through kal vachomer [a fortiori reasoning].' When I came and lectured about these matters before Rabbi Yehoshua, he said to me, 'You have spoken well, but thus have they [the Sages] said is the law.'"

(1) There are two nezirim (a person who swears abstention from all grape products like wine, from cutting his hair, and avoidance of corpse impurity), where another said to them, "I saw one of you become impure and I do not know which of you," They [both] shave and bring an offering for impurity and an offering for purity and [one] says, "If I am the impure one, the offering for impurity is mine and the offering for purity is yours. But if I am the pure one, the offering for purity is mine, and the offering of impurity is yours"' Then they count thirty days, and bring an offering for purity, and [one] says, "If I am the impure one, the offering of impurity is mine, and the offering for purity is yours, and this is the offering of my purity. And if I am the pure one, the offering of purity is mine, and the offering of impurity is yours, and this is the offering of your purity." If one of them died, Rabbi Yehoshua said: "[The other one] seeks one from the market who will vow as a nazir in place of him [the dead one], and he [the living one] says, 'If I was impure, behold you are immediately a nazir. But if I was pure, behold you are a nazir after thirty days.' Then they count thirty days, and then bring an offering for purity and an offering for impurity, and [one] says: 'If I am the impure one, the offering for impurity is mine, and the offering for purity is yours. And if I am the pure one, the offering for purity is mine, and the offering for impurity is [offered] with uncertainty.' Then they count thirty days and bring an offering for purity and [one] says, 'If I am the impure one, the offering for impurity is mine and the offering for purity is yours, and this is my offering for purity. But if I am the pure one, the offering for purity is mine, and the offering for impurity is [offered] in uncertainty, and this is the offering of your impurity.'" Ben Zoma said to him: "And who will listen to him in that he will vow to become a nazir in place of him [the dead one]? Rather, he brings a sin-offering of a bird and a burnt-offering of an animal, and says, 'If I was impure, the sin-offering is for my obligation and the burnt-offering is a donation. If I was pure, the burnt-offering is for my obligation and the sin offering is [offered] with uncertainty.' Then he counts thirty days and brings an offering of purity, and says, 'If I was impure, the initial burnt-offering was a donation and this is an obligation. If I was pure, the initial burnt-offering was an obligation, this is a donation, and this is the rest of my offering." Said Rabbi Yehoshua: "It would turn out that this one brings his offerings in parts." But the Sages agreed with Ben Zoma.