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Please be sure to attend THIS SUNDAY NGHT our Zoom shiur with Rabbi Shlomo Weissman of the Beth Din of America. Details at the bottom of this email.
Perek 7 continues with the discussion about what people actually mean when they say certain words, and how this determination impacts the scope of nedarim that are made.
Mishna 1 employs an interesting language test. Let's say I sent you to the market to purchase item "x" for me, and you discovered when you got to the market (without a cell phone!) that while item "x" is not available, item "y" is. If item "y" is so similar to item "x" that you'd just go ahead and buy it for me than we can also assume that if a person were to make a neder foreswearing item "x", that item "y" is certianly included in the neder as well. On the other end, if "y" were something that you for sure would not buy for me were item "x" not in the marketplace, then we can similarly assume that item "y" is not included in a neder made about item "x". If, on the third hand, you'd run back to me tyo ask whether "y" is a good enough substitute for "x", well in this case you'd wind up with the debate in Mishna 1 :).
Mishnayot 2-5 continue with the exploration of - and debates about! - what particular words do and do not mean, and what nedarim made using these words do and do not include.
Mishna 6 introduces an interesting nuance. It distinguishes between a case in which in which as person takes a neder declaring "these fruits" as forbidden objects, and a case in which a person simply takes a neder not to eat certain fruits. The former language implies a scope that goes beyond the literal fruits on the table, and includes thins such as anything that might be purchased with the market proceeds of the fruit.
We could call Mishnayot 8 and 9 the "dangling modifier Mishnayot", as they explore the intention of someone who attaches a time limit to his neder. We need to figure out whether the time limit modifies the length of time that the neder is in force, or whether it modifies the time within which the the action being referenced in the neder is performed.
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SAVE THE DATE!!!!!!
How a Bet Din Can Work to Pre-empt Agunah Situations
A Zoom shiur with Rabbi Shlomo Weissman, Director of the Beth Din of America
March 17th, 5:45 – 6:30 PM
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88446978315?pwd=V2hMamxSR3JHZCsvQXZtNnQvVVU1UT09
Meeting ID: 884 4697 8315 | Passcode: 342646
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