“The priest shall take the cooked foreleg of the ram, and one loaf of unleavened bread from the basket, and one wafer of unleavened bread, and he shall place them on the palms of the nazirite, after he has shaved his consecrated head” (Numbers 6:19). “The priest shall take the cooked foreleg” – “cooked” is nothing other than complete.141From the fact that it does not say flesh, but rather the foreleg, it means that the foreleg must be complete.
Another matter, “the priest shall take the cooked foreleg,” is it, perhaps, raw? The verse states: “Cooked.” If cooked, is it perhaps, [cooked separately,] in and of itself? The verse states: “Of the ram.”
It teaches that it was cooked with the ram. How would he perform it? He would cut it until he would leave a hairbreadth; neither would the sacred absorb from the non-sacred, nor would the non-sacred absorb from the sacred. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said in the name of bar Kappara: All prohibited items that impart flavor are nullified in a mixture of one to one hundred.
Rabbi Ḥiyya and Rabbi Yehoshua said in the name of bar Kappara: All prohibited items that impart flavor are nullified in a mixture of one to sixty. Both of them derive it from the nazirite’s lamb. The one who says one to one hundred, you estimate the foreleg is one one-hundreth of the ram. The one who says one to sixty, you estimate the foreleg is one-sixtieth.
The one who says one one-hundredth, you remove the bones from the foreleg. The one who says one-sixtieth, you do not remove the bones from the foreleg. Perhaps, just as you remove the bones from the foreleg, so, remove the bones from the ram. You cannot, as it is taught: The waste of the teruma does not join the teruma to neutralize the non-sacred produce, but the waste of the non-sacred produce joins the non-sacred produce to neutralize the teruma.
“And one loaf of unleavened bread from the basket” – if it broke, or if part of it is missing, it is disqualified. “He shall place them on the palms of the nazirite, after he shaved his naziriteship.” These are after he has shaved his consecrated head, but the bringing of his offering is not after he has shaved his consecrated head.