Nazir

[A nazirite] who was in doubt whether he had been defiled but certainly been a confirmed leper, may eat sacred meats after eight days,  and may drink wine and touch the dead after sixty-seven days,  One who was in doubt whether he had been a confirmed leper but had certainly been defiled, may eat sacred meats after thirty-seven days,  and may drink wine and touch the dead after seventy-four days.' One who was certainly defiled and certainly a confirmed leper may eat sacred meats after eight days, and may drink wine and touch the dead after forty-four days. R. Simeon b. Yohai was asked by his disciples: May a ritually clean nazirite who was a leper poll once only  and have it reckoned for both purposes?  — He replied: He cannot poll in this way.  They then asked him: Why? — He replied: If both [the nazirite and the leper polled] in order that it should grow again,  or both [polled] In order to remove [the hair],  your suggestion would be sound, but as it is the nazirite [polls] to remove [the hair] and the leper [polls] to let it grow again. [They then said:] Granted that it should not count [for both pollings] after the period of confirmed leprosy, let it still count [for both] after his tale of days?  — He replied: If both were required to poll before the sprinkling of the blood [of the sacrifice], your suggestion would be sound, but here the leper polls before the sprinkling of the blood  and the nazirite after the sprinkling of the blood.  [They next suggested that though the one polling] should not count both for the days of his leprosy and his naziriteship, yet it ought to count for the days [both] of his leprosy and of his defilements.  [R. Simeon, however,] said to them: If both [polled] before bathing, your proposal would be sound, but the defiled [nazirite polls] after bathing  and the leper  before bathing. [Another version of the discussion is as follows.]  They said to him: You have given a good reason why ii should not count [both] for his tale of days and for his naziriteship, but why should not [one polling] count for his period of confirmed leprosy as well as for his defilement, since in both cases [the polling] is to allow [the hair] to grow? — He replied: In the case of a ritually clean nazirite who is a leper, [the purpose of] the one [polling]  is for [the hair] to grow again and the other  is to remove [the hair], whilst in the case of a defiled nazirite who is a leper, the latter [polling takes place] before bathing and the former after bathing.