Commentary for Chullin 178:30

ואמר רבי יוחנן

a corpse, an olive's bulk of [the flesh of] a corpse e Now the question was asked: If he must shave [his head] on account of an olive's bulk of [the flesh of] a corpse, then surely he must shave [his head] for the whole corpse! And R'Johanan answered that it was necessary [to mention the corpse itself] only for the case of an abortion whose limbs were not yet knit together by nerves.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In which case the abortion, even though in the whole of it there is not an olive's bulk of flesh, would render the Nazirite unclean.');">¹⁷</span>

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