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7:2:1

משנה: הַמַּדִּיר אֶת אִשְׁתּוֹ שֶׁלֹּא תִטְעוֹם בְּאֶחָד מִכָּל מִינֵי פֵירוֹת יוֹצִיא וְיִתֵּן כְּתוּבָּה. רִבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל חֹדֶשׁ אֶחָד יְקַיֵים שְׁנַיִם יוֹצִיא וְיִתֵּן כְּתוּבָּה. וּבְכוֹהֶנֶת שְׁנַיִם יְקַיֵים שְׁלֹשָׁה יוֹצִיא וְיִתֵּן כְּתוּבָּה.

MISHNAH: If somebody causes28The Halakhah will explain how a husband can cause a wife’s vow. a vow of his wife that she should not taste any kind of fruits has to divorce her and pay the ketubah. Rebbi Jehudah says, if he is an Israel, for one month29Most mss. of the Babli and the Mishnah read “day” instead of “month”. The reading “month” is found in a number of early medieval authors discussing the Babli. he should keep her, for two he has to divorce her and pay the ketubah; in the case of the wife of a Cohen for two [months] he should keep her, for three he has to divorce her and pay the ketubah.

MISHNAH: If somebody causes28The Halakhah will explain how a husband can cause a wife’s vow. a vow of his wife that she should not taste any kind of fruits has to divorce her and pay the ketubah. Rebbi Jehudah says, if he is an Israel, for one month29Most mss. of the Babli and the Mishnah read “day” instead of “month”. The reading “month” is found in a number of early medieval authors discussing the Babli. he should keep her, for two he has to divorce her and pay the ketubah; in the case of the wife of a Cohen for two [months] he should keep her, for three he has to divorce her and pay the ketubah.

7:2:2

הלכה: הַמַּדִּיר אֶת אִשְׁתּוֹ כול׳. וְיֵשׁ אָדָם שֶׁמַּדִּיר אֶת חֲבֵירוֹ מֵחַיִים. אֶלָּא בְּשֶׁנָּדְרָה אִשָּׁה וְשָׁמַע בַּעֲלָהּ וְאָמַר לָהּ. אִם תֹּאכְלִי מֵחֶפֶץ פְּלוֹנִי תְּהֵא אֲסוּרָה מִנְּכָסָיו. אָכְלָה מֵאוֹתוֹ הַחֶפֶץ וּתְהֵא אֲסוּרָה מִנְּכָסָיו. וָהֲנֵי רֹאשָׁהּ דְּפִירְקָא. אֲבָל בְּשֶׁנָּדְרָה אִשְׁתּוֹ וְשָׁמַע בַּעֲלָהּ וְלֹא הֵיפֵר לָהּ וּכְמָאן דָּמַר. הוּא נָתַן אֶצְבָּעוֹ בֵּין שִׁינֶּיהָ יוֹצִיא וְיִתֵּן כְּתוּבָּה. אָמַר רִבִּי חוּנָה. אֲפִילוּ כְמָאן דָּמַר. הִיא נָתְנָה אֶצְבָּעוֹ בֵּין שִׁינֶּיהָ תֵּצֵא שֶׁלֹּא בִכְתוּבָּה. מוֹדֵי בְמַקְנִיטָהּ וְנָדְרָה.

HALAKHAH: “If somebody causes a vow of his wife,” etc. Can anybody cause somebody else’s vow during his lifetime? It must be that the wife made a vow, the husband heard it, and said to her: If you will eat from such and such, my property will be forbidden to you. If she ate from such and such, why should his property not be forbidden to her30Since she is the cause.? Is that not the case from the beginning of the chapter31He forbade his property to her. Why does the anonymous Tanna require a stay of 30 days in the first Mishnah but none in the second?? But if his wife made a vow, her husband was informed, and did not dissolve it, following him who says that he put his finger between her teeth32The question whether the husband is responsible for the consequences if he does not dissolve his wife’s vows is in the last paragraph of Nedarim, 11:13, Notes 98–103. The image is that if he puts his finger between her teeth, he has only himself to blame if she bites. R. Meïr and R. Jehudah hold that he put his finger between her teeth; cf. also Babli 71a., he has to divorce her and pay the ketubah. Rebbi Ḥuna said, even he who said that she put his finger between her teeth, and should be divorced without ketubah, will agree33That he has to pay. in case he provoked her to make the vow.

HALAKHAH: “If somebody causes a vow of his wife,” etc. Can anybody cause somebody else’s vow during his lifetime? It must be that the wife made a vow, the husband heard it, and said to her: If you will eat from such and such, my property will be forbidden to you. If she ate from such and such, why should his property not be forbidden to her30Since she is the cause.? Is that not the case from the beginning of the chapter31He forbade his property to her. Why does the anonymous Tanna require a stay of 30 days in the first Mishnah but none in the second?? But if his wife made a vow, her husband was informed, and did not dissolve it, following him who says that he put his finger between her teeth32The question whether the husband is responsible for the consequences if he does not dissolve his wife’s vows is in the last paragraph of Nedarim, 11:13, Notes 98–103. The image is that if he puts his finger between her teeth, he has only himself to blame if she bites. R. Meïr and R. Jehudah hold that he put his finger between her teeth; cf. also Babli 71a., he has to divorce her and pay the ketubah. Rebbi Ḥuna said, even he who said that she put his finger between her teeth, and should be divorced without ketubah, will agree33That he has to pay. in case he provoked her to make the vow.

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  • Hebrew: The Jerusalem Talmud, edition by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer. Berlin, De Gruyter, 1999-2015 · License: CC-BY
  • English: The Jerusalem Talmud, translation and commentary by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer. Berlin, De Gruyter, 1999-2015 · License: CC-BY

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