Related for Bekhorot 61:1

תנו רבנן

Our Rabbis taught: And all of these<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The reference is to the second clause of the Baraitha in Tosef. Dem'ai. II, concerning one accepting the obligations of a haber except one religious law, a priest who accepts all priestly obligation except one, and similarly a Levite. Tosaf explains that it refers to an earlier clause in the Tosef. with reference to an 'am ha-arez accepting the obligations of a haber, a heathen who accepts the teachings of the Torah and a priest who accepts the full obligations of the priesthood. Now, if any of these retracted, i.e., returned to their former habits, they are never received again, since they have shown their weakness, whereas R. Judah maintains that if this relapse was in secrecy, they must not be received because they are merely deceiving people and doing it for show, but if their relapse was both privately and publicly, then if they retracted, we accept them again as genuine penitents.');"><sup>1</sup></span>

Tosefta Demai

[With respect to one who] comes to take upon himself [the obligations of a chaver, see Minchat Yitzchak here], if he had always [lit. "from the beginning"] acted modestly, we accept him, and afterwards we teach him [the strictures applicable to the chaverim], and if not (i.e., if he had not always been modest), we teach him first, and afterwards we accept him. [Rabbi Shimon says, either way we accept him first and then we teach him (per the GR"A)], and we lead him (i.e., impart the halachot on him) like so: [First] we accept him regarding "wings" (the ritual washing of hands before eating, see Y. Dem. II.3.7), and after than we accept him regarding "purities" (eating ritually clean food, ibid.). And if [at that point] he said, "I don't take this (i.e., "purities") upon myself, but only "wings," we still accept him. If he takes upon himself "purities" but does not take upon himself "wings," then he is not [considered] trustworthy. How long until we accept him [as a chaver]? Beit Shammai say, 30 days as to [matters of impurity involving] liquids, 12 months as to [the impurity of] clothing. And Beit Hillel say, 30 days for both.

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