daf bit: Nedarim 6

[cellio]

This week the daf yomi moves on to tractate Nedarim (vows -- you know this word from "kol nidrei", "all vows", part of the Yom Kippur liturgy).

The wording of vows is very important; the gemara has a long discussion of whether a person can be held to a vow (such as "this is a sin-offering for me") if he does not explicitly say "for me". Without those words he could be making a statement about someone else's sin-offering, after all; with them he is making a pledge, according to the rabbis. The gemara gives divorce as an exception to this rule, since "no man divorces his neighbor's wife" -- the get (divorce document) is obviously "from me" even if that is not stated. (6a)

Comments

[magid.livejournal.com]

Is that part of the reason for the minhag of many people not to eat lamb for the seder?