Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Nedarim 19b - Safek Nazir Shaving

The Ran and Rosh both learn that the reason that a safeik nazir would not be able to shave his head to fulfill the mitzvah of giluach is that ideally the shaving can only be done after bringing the 3 korbanos: olah, shelamim and chatas (even though bidieved he is yotzei if he shaves after he brought just one korban), and since a safeik nazir can't bring a chatas because if he is not a nazir it would be chulin b'azara, he cannot even be megaleiach. Tosafos seems to say something much simpler that is not at all dependent on the korbanos. For a nazir to shave his head would be a violation of hakafas harosh (cutting his paiyos), and therefore m'safek he cannot fulfill the mitzvah of giluach.
I don't understand why the Ran and Rosh would not explain simply like Tosafos. The language of the gemara may lead them to understand that the problem with giluach is dependent on the korban, or it may be that they want to explain the gemara even according to those who hold hakafas kol harosh is NOT called hakafa. v'tzarich iyun.

1 comment:

Avromi said...

Perhaps it is because of the next Gemora of a nazir olam trimming his hair it it is heavy and there should be no issur in that! (Mishna l'melech nezirus 3:18)