2,936. The Offerings of a Nazir Metzora with Tumah

Hilchos Nezirus 10:4

Continuing the case of a nazir who is a doubtful metzora and doubtfully unclean, the question arises as to how he should bring his requisite offerings. If the person in question was wealthy, he should assign all of his possessions to someone else. This is because a wealthy metzora who brought the offerings of a needy person doesn’t fulfill his obligation. After doing this, he brings a bird for a sin offering and an animal for a burnt offering for his first, second and third shavings. No one may eat any of the birds brought as sin offerings because they were brought out of doubt. For his fourth shaving, he brings the purity offerings of a nazir, as has already been discussed.

Hilchos Nezirus 10:5

The person in question brings three birds for sin offerings as follows: the first is for the doubt regarding ritually impurity, the second is for the doubt regarding tzaraas – since a metzora only brings an offering after his second shaving – and the third is for the possibility that he actually was ritually unclean. This is because a person can’t shave once for both nezirus and tzaraas, and maybe he was definitely both a metzora and ritually unclean from corpse impurity. In such a case, the first and second shavings are to purify him from tzaraas, as has already been discussed. The third shaving is for his ritual impurity. He must therefore bring his impurity offerings at that time.