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ג מִיַּיִן וְשֵׁכָר יַזִּיר, חֹמֶץ יַיִן וְחֹמֶץ שֵׁכָר לֹא יִשְׁתֶּה; וְכָל-מִשְׁרַת עֲנָבִים לֹא יִשְׁתֶּה, וַעֲנָבִים לַחִים וִיבֵשִׁים לֹא יֹאכֵל.
3 He shall abstain from wine and strong drink: he shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.
Num 6:3
Abaye asked: How do you know that the word “mishras” comes to teach that even permitted items can combine with wine products to form an amount for which a nazir is considered to transgress his vow? Perhaps it is telling us that the taste of an item is akin to it being physically present (known as “ta’am k’ikar”)?
[This means that wine-soaked bread would be prohibited to a nazir even though the wine was very absorbed in the bread, and it merely made the bread have a taste of wine.]
Going back to Nazir 33b is unique in the Babylonian Talmud for having no actual Talmud on it. The page is instead completely filled by the commentary of the medieval group of commentators known as Tosafot.
How did we get a page of Talmud with no Talmud in it? In 1519, a Christian named Daniel Bomberg and his publishing house began to publish what would become the first printed edition of the complete Babylonian Talmud.
The printers made an unusual decision to dedicate an entire page of the printed edition to catching up with Tosafot. Nazir 33b presents Tosafot’s commentary not only on Nazir 33a, but going back as far as Nazir 31b — for a total of four pages of Tosafot’s commentary.