[Avodah] and if it was a nedder?

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:12:16AM -0700, Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote:
: http://lifeinisrael.blogspot.com/2011/05/interesting-psak-from-rav-elyashiv_24.html 
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: could her  promise of celibacy be annulled?   is it a bad omen to try?

Could it ever take hold? For a man, given that it's a neder that is
keneged halakhah, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't. But if the neder were
made by a single woman (such as this widow), is it sufficiently against
the Torah to be inherently non-binding?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha