Mesorat%20hashas for Sotah 32:1

כדלעת מני ר"ע היא דדריש ריבויי ומיעוטי דתניא (ויקרא יד, ט) והיה ביום השביעי יגלח את כל שערו ריבה את ראשו ואת זקנו ואת גבות עיניו מיעט ואת כל שערו יגלח חזר וריבה ריבה ומיעט וריבה ריבה הכל

According to whom [is the teaching that he must be shaved the second time] as smooth as a gourd? It is R. Akiba who expounds [the Torah] by the rule of amplification and limitation; for it has been taught: 'And it shall be on the seventh day that he shall shave all his hair' — that is an amplification; 'off his head and his beard and his eyebrows' — that is a limitation; 'even all his hair he shall shave off — that is again an amplification. Now [the rule of exegesis is]: Where there is an amplification, followed by a limitation, and this is followed by an amplification, the amplification applies to the whole. In which respect is there an amplification? It includes all the body [to be shaved]. In which respect is there a limitation? It excludes the hair which grows inside the nostril. How is it, then, with our original question [whether ashes may be used when there is no dust]? — Come and hear: For R. Huna b. Ashi said in the name of Rab: If there is no dust there, he brings decayed herbage and hallows it! — But this is no proof. Decayed herbage may indeed be [called] dust but not ashes.

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