Quoting%20commentary for Sotah 31:13

רב אשי אמר הא מתניתא מני רבי ישמעאל היא דדריש כללי ופרטי

is so, it should also have been enumerated! — He taught [some instances] and omitted others. What else, then, did he omit?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [He would not in enumeration just stop short at one point.] ');">¹³</span> — He omitted [the shaving] of a leper;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This refers to the second act of shaving. The leper was shaved twice; see Lev. XIV, 8 and 9. ');">¹⁴</span> for it has been taught: And it shall be on the seventh day that he shall shave all his hair — that is a generalization; off his head and his beard and his eyebrows — that is a particularization; even all his hair he shall shave off<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XIV, 9. ');">¹⁵</span> — that is again a generalization. Now [the rule of exegesis is]: when there is a general proposition, followed by the enumeration of particulars, and this is followed by a general proposition, include only that which resembles the particulars.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Shebu (Sonc. ed.) p. 13, n. 3. ');">¹⁶</span> As the particulars refer to a part [of the body] where the hair grows and is visible, so every place where the hair grows and is visible [comes within the scope of the law]. What does it include? It includes the hair on the private part. What does it exclude? It excludes that of the arm-pit and the whole body [which is normally covered]. The <i>halachah</i>, however, is: he shaves himself as smooth as a gourd.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., all over his body. ');">¹⁷</span> For we have learnt: When [the priest] comes to shave the leper, he passes a razor over all his flesh;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Neg. XIV. 2. ');">¹⁸</span> and it continues,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid 3. ');">¹⁹</span> On the seventh day he shaves<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [This is a reading of Rashi which is preferable to that of the cur. edd: 'on the seventh day he shall shave', as this is a quotation of Neg. XIV. 3.] ');">²⁰</span> the second shaving after the manner of the first.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Over all the body. ');">²¹</span> R. Nahman b. Isaac said: [R. Johanan] enumerated instances where the <i>halachah</i> crushes the Scriptural text under heel; but here it crushes a Rabbinical teaching<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [A teaching derived from Rabbinic exegesis. MS.M. reads 'Midrash'; v. Chajes, Z.H. ntes.] ');">²²</span> under heel.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And therefore R. Johanan's list of three cases is complete. ');">²³</span> R. Papa said: [R. Johanan] enumerated instances where the <i>halachah</i> crushes the Scriptural text under heel and overthrows it; but here it crushes the text under heel and extends it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [By shaving the whole body the demands of the text are not set aside but extended.] ');">²⁴</span> R. Ashi said: According to whom is this teaching [that only the visible parts of the body are to be shaved]? It is R. Ishmael who expounds [the Torah] by the rule of generalization and particularization.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He elaborated thirteen rules of interpretation, and that quoted above is one of them. [And so according to R. Ishmael in whose name the above enumeration was reported by R. Johanan the list is complete]. ');">²⁵</span>

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