Today’s daf TB Nedarim reminds us once again that we should refrain from making vows. We already have enough “nos” in Judaism. Why should a person forbid something to him that is permitted?! In fact, we’re going to give an accounting why we did enjoy life on earth. “Rebbi Ḥizqiah, Rebbi Cohen in the name of Rav: Every person will have to justify himself for everything his eye saw and which he did not eat” TY Kidushin 4:3 No wonder our tradition teaches one who takes a vow is a sinner.
“Rava
said to Rav
Naḥman: Master, see that Sage who came from the West, Eretz Yisrael, and who said:
The Sages attended to the dissolution of a vow taken by the son of Rav Huna bar Avin,
and they dissolved his vow and said to him: Go and request mercy for yourself,
for you have sinned by taking a vow. As Rav Dimi, the brother of Rav Safra
teaches: With regard to anyone who takes a vow, even if he fulfills it,
he is called a sinner. Rav Zevid said: What verse teaches
this? It is: “But if you refrain to vow, it will be no sin in you” (Deuteronomy 23:23).
It may be inferred that if you did not refrain from taking vows, there
is sin.” (Sefaria.org translation)
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