Many times the Gemara assumes we know something before officially introducing the topic. The time limit for hafarat nedarim (הפרת נדרים) has always been assumed you knew that the father or the husband once he learned of the vow only had one day to dissolve the vow. If the husband or the father didn’t annul the vow, the woman’s vow remains in force. The Gemara on daf TB Nedarim 76 brings the debate whether time limit of the day means 24 hours or until nightfall of that very day. At the very end of the sugiya we learn that the father/husband has only until the end of that day he learns of the vow to annul it.
“It is taught in a baraita: The
nullification of vows can be performed all day on the day on
which the vow was heard. Rabbi Yosei, son of Rabbi Yehuda, and Rabbi Elazar,
son of Rabbi Shimon, said: A vow can be nullified for a
twenty-four-hour period from the time it was heard. The Gemara asks: What
is the reason for the opinion of the first tanna? The Gemara
answers: Since the verse states: “But if her husband make them null and
void on the day that he hears them” (Numbers 30:13), he derives that the
husband can nullify his wife’s vow only until the end of the day on which he
hears the vow.
“…Rabbi Shimon ben Pazi said that Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said:
The halakha is not in accordance with that pair [zug], Rabbi
Yosei, son of Rabbi Yehuda, and Rabbi Eliezer, son of Rabbi Shimon, who hold
that one has an entire twenty-four-hour period to nullify vows. Rather, one can
nullify only on that day, as stated in the mishna. The Gemara relates: Levi
thought to act in accordance with the opinion of those two tanna’im.
Rav said to him: So said my uncle [ḥavivi], Rabbi Ḥiyya: The halakha
is not in accordance with that pair.”
(Sefaria.org translation)
If you want to know why they both don’t accept each other’s reasoning, read the discussion on daf TB Nedarim 76b.
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