Until the Indignation Passes

Three hundred nazirites ascended [to Jerusalem] in the days of Simeon ben Shetaḥ. He found an opening for one hundred and fifty of them [i.e., a way to release them from their nazirite vow], but for [the other] one hundred and fifty, he did not find an opening. He went up to King Yannai and said to him, “Three hundred nazirites came up and needed…