Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Kamma 209:11

הדר פשטה שער אין כאן גילוח אין כאן אי שער אין כאן גילוח יש כאן הכי קאמר אע"פ ששער אין כאן מצות גילוח אין כאן

— He replied:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., Rabina to R. Aha. ');">²⁶</span> No; the query has application where, e.g., one of the two hairs fell out of itself<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Before he started to shave the two hairs. ');">²⁷</span> and the other was shaved by him: Shall we say that [since] now there is no minimum of hair left unshaved [the duty of shaving has been performed], or was there perhaps no performance of shaving since originally he had left two hairs [unshaved] and when he [made up his mind to] shave them now, there were not two hairs to be shaved? On second thoughts Raba himself solved it thus: There is neither any hair here, nor is there the performance of shaving here. But if there is no hair [left] here, was not the duty of shaving surely performed here? — What he meant was this: Though there remained no hair, yet the performance of the injunction of shaving was not performed here.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [I.e., he has not fulfilled the relevant precept (Tosaf.).] ');">²⁸</span>

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