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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 6:4/אבן עזרא על במדבר ו׳:ד׳
אמחרצנים. אין לו ריע וכן זג והמפרשים אמרו חרצנים חצונים וזג פנימי' ואחרים הפכו הפירוש ויהיה פירוש מחרצנים דבק עם מכל אשר יעשה כל מה שיעשה מאלה שניהם:
1PRESSED GRAPES. The word chartzannim (pressed grapes) is not found anywhere else in Scripture. The same applies to the word zag (grape-stone). The commentaries tells us that chartzannim refers to the outer skin of the grape and zag to the pits. Others say the reverse.12 34b. According to these interpretations, me-chartzannim (from the pressed grapes)13 (from the pressed grapes even to the grape-stone). is connected to nothing that is made of the grape-vine. The meaning of our verse is that the Nazirite shall eat nothing made from the grapevine, that is, from these two things.14