[Avodah] and if it was a nedder?

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 05:14:25PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>> 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?
>
> *Is* it against the Torah?

IF I knew, I wouldn't have asked!

>                             You've quoted several times a psak din that
> the widow of a kadosh may not remarry.

Just once, than with iteratively more mar'eh meqomos as I was challenged
on it. I think it was RMPoppers who posted the idea here first, which is
where I learned of it.

>                                         And of course the widow of a king
> may not remarry.  So we see that the Torah does accept such a concept.

But showing that it's allowed in certain circumstances doesn't show that
it is allowed when those circumstances aren't met.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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