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The Torah takes vows very seriously. The prohibition against taking God's name in vain is one of the Ten Commandments. Vows for sacrifices, property, and even oneself were discussed in Leviticus. Earlier in Numbers, the Torah discussed the laws of the vow of the nazirite. Offering various scenarios in which a man has the ability to nullify the vows of his wife and daughter, this chapter can be a difficult read from a modern standpoint.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As in all of these previous chapters, this one is filled with arcane halachot. For example: How long does a father have to annul a vow? There is a disagreement in the Talmud, Nedarim 76b. Verse 6 states: \u201cBut if her father restrains her on the day he finds out, none of her vows or self-imposed obligations shall stand.\u201d\u00a0 One opinion is that the father has until the end of the day that he hears the vow to annul it. Another opinion is that the father has one day from when he hears the vow to annul it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The second opinion seems to contradict the Mishnah that only referenced the \u201cday of\u201d opinion. The Mishnah also provided two examples to demonstrate the extremes of the \u201cday of\u201d opinion. If the daughter makes a vow on Friday evening right after nightfall, then the vow can be annulled until the next nightfall giving a full 24 hour period. However, if she made the vow just before nightfall, then the father only has a few moments to annul the vow before nightfall comes and with it the next day. The first opinion is from verse 6. However, the second opinion comes from verse 15: \u201cIf her husband offers no objection from that day to the next, he has upheld all the vows or obligations she has assumed.\u201d The phrase \u201cday to the next\u201d implies that the father has a 24 hour period that could last from one day to the next. In the end, the halacha is that the father can only nullify the vow the day that he hears it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What kind of vows can a husband nullify? At first the Torah states that if a woman makes a vow her husband can nullify it but if\u00a0 \u201cher husband learns of it, yet offers no objection\u2014thus failing to restrain her\u2014all her vows shall stand and all her self-imposed obligations shall stand\u201d (verse 12). This seems to imply that he can nullify all of her vows, like a father to daughter. But later the Torah states: \u201cEvery vow and every sworn obligation of self-denial may be upheld by her husband or annulled by her husband\u201d (verse 14). The Talmud in Nedarim 79b points out that the second verse limits the first verse. The halacha is that the husband can only nullify vows that a wife makes that involve self-denial that will cause friction in their interpersonal relationship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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A man comes to his rabbi with a difficult halachic quandary. There is a prohibition that he's struggling with upholding, and it's not a minor one. It's mentioned numerous times in the Torah, and the rabbis have the harshest words for he who violates it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Pop quiz: is the rabbi's role:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. a) to chastise him for daring to put his own struggle up against the word of God<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. b) to strengthen and encourage him to overcome his temptations, overcome himself, to see this as a test from God of his commitment,<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. c) to emphathically, sensitively, lovingly tell the man that he hears his struggle...but there's nothing to do,<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. d) to creatively find him a way out?<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    In the world of vows introduced in Bamidbar 30, the answer is D.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In Jewish thought, repeated several times throughout Tanach, and emphasized by the rabbis, a promise is a promise. \u00a0Vows are serious business; on the Day of Atonement, it's the very first sin we try to deal with. Our words and commitments are holy, and a prohibition we create for ourselves is binding; breaking your word is considered <\/span>hillul<\/span><\/em>- a profaning of the sacred.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    And so, the mishna in Hagiga seems to relate harshly to the idea of permitting vows, saying that it is an endeavor which \"flits in the air, and has nothing to rely on.\" But Shmuel, one of the most important rabbis of the Gemara, disagrees. The idea that 'he shall not profane his word' he reads with creative minimalism- <\/span>he<\/span><\/em> cannot profane it, but others can for him. This process is known as '<\/em><\/span>hatarat nedarim<\/span><\/em>'<\/span><\/i>, and it is entrusted, first and foremost, to the experts. A person who ignored all the rabbinic warnings about careful speech, and foolishly made a vow that he now finds he cannot keep is not chastised for his carelessness, he isn't encouraged to valiantly try to live up to his vows, or empathized with. The role of the expert is to help him, by creatively finding an 'out'.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Once, it was lay people who added prohibitions, who demanded of themselves greater stringencies, and it was the role of the expert rabbis to make their lives livable when they got out of control. Somewhere along the way, rabbis and lay people seem to have gotten their roles reversed, and it is the rabbis who are always demanding stringencies that put people to the test and push them past the breaking point, and the people who desperately search for ways out. This reversal causes great anguish for all parties. \u00a0Instead of helping to keep people from profaning their word, and preventing <\/span>hillul<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> this type of rabbinate is the cause of great <\/span>hillul<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But there is hope. 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    Our chapter provides details of how hasty or impulsive vows can be annulled. Single women must approach their fathers and married women\u2014their husbands. Unspoken, albeit implicit, is that men may annul their own vows, although later, Talmudic, elaboration imposed the qualification that annulment must be undertaken in the presence of either a single expert judge or three laymen (to which anyone who has witnessed or participated in the annulment ceremony traditionally observed on the eve of Rosh Hashanah can attest).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Two fundamental questions have been posed about the chapter, one each by Rashi and his grandson Rashbam.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Rashi asked: Why are the laws of vows addressed to the tribal chieftains? Rashbam asked: Where was Moses instructed to make this presentation?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    Rashbam\u2019s answer is that the matter of vows and their annulment is an extension of the laws of festival offerings that are contained in the previous chapter. Indeed, the final verse of that chapter reads: \u201cThese shall be offered to God at the appointed times\u2014in addition to the offerings made by vows or in free-will\u2026\u201d (29:39). In order to insure prompt fulfillment of promised offerings, they were to be brought on one of the pilgrimage festivals, lest the lapse of time until their fulfillment lead to their abrogation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    Judaism is a religion that stresses the sanctity of language, especially when used to accept or impose obligations on oneself. Deep significance attaches to vows and the other verbal undertakings: \u201cIf a man makes a vow to God, or makes an oath to obligate himself, he must not break his word. He must do everything he said\u201d (Num. 30:3). In general, it is preferable not to invest voluntary commitments with the sacred status of a vow. \u201cIf you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty\u201d (Deut. 23:23). \u201cIt is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it\u201d (Eccl. 5:4).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    It is a common human foible to want to please the person in front of us. We laugh at jokes we don\u2019t find funny, we make sympathetic comments even to opinions we may not share, and we attempt to be liked by the people we are with at the moment. That desire to please is a heritage of our mammalian nature: neural pathways make sure to connect us to those nearby, linking our emotions, our responses, and even shading our opinions to keep us connected. We even yawn when those around us do.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    One of the main casualties of this human propensity to \u00a0be similar to those we are near is that we often say things that we might mean at the time, but which upon reflection we want to walk back. We make promises we cannot (or should not) keep; we commit to goals we don\u2019t really desire. Social exchanges are often so scripted that we provide clues for when our answer is socially driven rather than accurate. \u201cHow are you?\u201d \u201cOh, I\u2019m fine, thank you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    What is lost in that social pleasantries, the little lies that lubricate our public lives, the small deceptions and duplicities we all indulge is the certainty of being able to rely on what others tell us. Not only can\u2019t we assume that they are telling us the truth, but we often knowingly assume that they are not.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The Torah invites us to a higher transparency. \u201cIf a person makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath imposing an obligation on themselves, don\u2019t break the pledge; carry out all that has crossed your lips (30:3).\u201d Knowing that we have a propensity to say what people want to hear, the Torah commands us to do the work of committing ourselves, and of speaking only what we are willing to implement. That means a willingness to live with integrity even at the expense of always getting along. It requires us to weigh our promises and make them only if we are willing to follow through.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    At the price of momentary discomfort or disappointment, we create a world of integrity in which we can rely on each other. The gain is well worth the cost.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    \u201cV\u2019heherish lah<\/em>\u201d: if a woman makes an oath in her father or her husband\u2019s house (under his authority) and he is silent in relation to her, the oath stands. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Silence is tacit compliance. It is the absence of opposition. It may not be enthusiastic, but it \u00a0accepts because it does not need to deny. Silence gives the woman authority to make a binding obligation between herself and God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In ancient times, a woman usually lived under the authority of her husband or father. Today, \u00a0when I look for an analogue, I think of the way our children live under parental authority. There is an important difference in these two scenarios of authority: children are always on a path to adulthood, whereas in ancient times, women might find themselves in situations of autonomy, but only under certain circumstances, not as a matter of course.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Nevertheless, the analogy allows us to consider when silence is called for as we take care of those entrusted to us, in a God-given universe. When adults care for and protect children, it is with the presumption that as children grow, increasingly more decisions will be theirs to make. The obligations they take upon themselves will bind them, not us. Their messes will be their own to clean up; their achievements, their own as well. When a child reaches the age of mitzvot, the \u201c'ol mitzvot,\u201d<\/em> the yoke of commandments, is now theirs alone.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Each human being has a voice. A child has a voice.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Each human being has a will. And ideas. A religious person will have that voice, will, and ideas, in relation to God, as well as to other human beings.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Sometimes, when I hear my child\u2019s voice, then my voice \u2013 as a parent -- is called for in order to oppose, to limit, to deny my child\u2019s desires and impulses, to countermand their speech. When I must intervene to prevent, then I speak.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But at other moments, holy moments, when a child asserts his or her deepest self in a form that bears no harm, then maybe we need to be silent \u2013 \u201cv\u2019heherish lah<\/em>.\u201d Let their words stand. Recognize their autonomy, their intention, their selfhood, a selfhood that comes into being through speech, but also through adult silence.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Not every act nor every speech act that a child practices needs parental commentary, not even approval or confirmation. The world is vast and its silences need to be a comfort, too.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    If I can find the right silence, my child can begin to hear and speak.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    \"\u2026 between a husband and his wife\u2026\" (Numbers 30:17)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Not like Amram's son<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Who spoke to God face to face \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>But abandoned the tent of Jethro's daughter;<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Nor like Jesse's son<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Who danced and leaped in front of the Lord's ark with all his strength<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>But left Saul's daughter behind a closed, opaque window;<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Nor like Abraham's son<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Who meditated before his Maker each evening \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>But exchanged no words with Bethuel's daughter concerning his sons and hers \u2014 <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Rather<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Like a simple son of Adam,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>An ordinary man,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Let me love you<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    As winter loves the snow,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>As spring loves the rain,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>As summer loves the dew,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>As autumn loves the hail;<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Let me drink from your well,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Immerse in your lake<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span> Swim in your sea.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Let me discover islands in you,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Islands I have not yet explored,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>As Columbus discovered a continent,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Balboa \u2014 an ocean,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span> Galileo \u2014 unimagined moons.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    And if I should dream of a ladder<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Whose top reaches the heavens,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>May we dream together;<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Should I ever draw a picture<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Dot by dot, line to line, here a little, there a little,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>May we paint together;<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Should I lay my hand on a key<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>That unlocks a garden's gate,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>May we open it together;<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>And should I merit another dawn and another dusk,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Another <\/span>Shabbat<\/span><\/i> and a whole stretch of weekdays,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>May we grow old together. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    May we sit, you and I,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>In the courtyards of Jerusalem<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Opposite the house of our grandchildren,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Each of us leaning on a cane;<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>May we see<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>The city filled with boys and girls<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Playing in her streets.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    And pray with me<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Together, without a <\/span>mechitzah<\/span><\/em>,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>That we may love<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Like wheat in a field before the reaping,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Like citrus trees in an orchard before the harvest,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Like grapes in a vineyard before the vintage,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Like a <\/span>Hasidic niggun<\/em> <\/span>creating yet another song.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":93326,"alt":"","title":"pro30-man woman couple love","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love.jpg","width":1280,"height":853,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love-1024x682.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":682,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love.jpg","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":853,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":853,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"929 Poetry Corner","tile_main_caption":"36th Anniversary","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"May we grow old together","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":93326,"alt":"","title":"pro30-man woman couple love","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love.jpg","width":1280,"height":853,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love-1024x682.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":682,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love.jpg","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":853,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":853,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Numbers","chapter":"30","chapter_main_number":"147","date":"20260323","wall_id":"147"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"362","name":"Poetry","old_id":"762"},{"term_id":"381","name":"love","old_id":"781"}]},{"order":10,"id":"48583","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"2","name":"Bible in the Backyard: Moses Legislates, God Ratifies? 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    1. Surprising recipient.<\/em> The law in the chapter is addressed by Moses to the \u201cthe heads of the Israelite tribes\u201d (verse 2). Is this an indication of the rise of a new leadership as the narrative turns towards entering the land? Or is it because of the subject of the laws?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    2. Permission to rescind?<\/em> Permission - not obligation. A man has the power to rescind or retract a vow of his wife or daughter. He, of course, can honor it, and her. Something about the phrasing of \u201cand the LORD will forgive her\u201d sounds like God making peace with those situations when a man chooses not to honor her vow.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    3. Time out.<\/em> According to the way the rabbis read these passages, a woman is fully responsible for her vows for the period beyond her \u201cyouth\u201d (<\/span>ne'ureha<\/span><\/em>), which ends at age 12, and her marriage.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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