[Avodah] honey [was: Hakafot on Shmini Atzeret]

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Mon Oct 30 07:31:21 PST 2006


Jonathan Baker wrote:

>> Shimshon and Yonasan both ate bee honey.  Not a mistake,  obviously.

> Yes, but interestingly, both were assur.  One for being eaten from
> the innards of a dead non-kosher animal

Why is this assur?


> the other for being eaten in contravention of an oath.

He didn't take the neder, so why was he bound by it (even had he found
out about it before eating)?  Can a person be bound by a neder that
other people took in his absence, without his consent?

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