Numbers 30:1 So Moshe declared to the Children of Israel according to all that YHVH had commanded
Moshe.
Numbers 30:2 Now Moshe spoke to the heads of the tribes of the Children of Israel, saying: This is the word that YHVH has commanded:
Numbers 30:3 (Any) man who vows a vow to YHVH or swears a sworn-oath, to bind himself by a binding- obligation: he is not to desecrate his word, according to all that goes out of his mouth, he is to do.
Numbers 30:4 And a woman, when she vows a vow to YHVH or binds (herself) by a binding-obligation in her father's house, in her youth,
Numbers 30:5 and her father hears her vow, or her binding-obligation by which she has bound herself, and her father is silent to her: all her vows, they shall be upheld, and all her binding-obligations by which she has bound herself shall be upheld.
Numbers 30:6 Now if her father constrains her at the time that he hears it, all her vows and her binding- obligations by which she binds herself shall not be upheld, and YHVH will grant-her-pardon, for her father has constrained her.
Numbers 30:7 But if she becomes-married, becomes-married to a man while her vows are upon her, or the rash-statement of her lips by which she has bound herself,
Numbers 30:8 and her husband hears, (and) at the time that he hears he is silent to her, her vows shall be upheld. All her binding-obligations by which she has bound herself shall be upheld.
Numbers 30:9 Now if at the time that her husband hears, he constrains her, he annulls her vow that is upon her as well as the rash-statement of her lips by which she has bound herself, and YHVH will grant-her- pardon.
Numbers 30:10 Now the vow of a widow or a divorcée, anything by which she has bound herself, shall be upheld regarding her.
Numbers 30:11 If in the house of her husband she made-a-vow or bound, bound herself by a sworn-oath, Numbers 30:12 and her husband heard, and was silent to her, not constraining her, all her vows, they shall be upheld, and all the binding-obligations by which she bound herself shall be upheld.
Numbers 30:13 But if her husband annulled, yes, annulled them at the time of his hearing it, all that went out
of her lips as her vows, as her binding of herself- it shall not be upheld, her husband has annulled them, and YHVH will grant-her-pardon.
Numbers 30:14 Every vow and every sworn binding, for afflicting her self: her husband may uphold, her husband may annul it.
Numbers 30:15 But if her husband is silent, yes, silent to her, from (one) day to the (next) day, (then) he has upheld all her vows and all her binding-obligations that are upon her, he has them upheld, since he was silent to her at the time of his hearing it.
Numbers 30:16 Now if he annuls, yes, annuls it after his hearing it, he shall bear her iniquity.
Numbers 6:1 YHVH spoke to Moshe, saying:
Numbers 6:2 Speak to the Children of Israel and say to them: A man or a woman-when one sets oneself apart, by vowing the vow of a Nazirite/Consecrated-one, to consecrate-oneself for YHVH:
Numbers 6:3 from wine and from intoxicant one is to consecrate-oneself; fermentation of wine and fermentation of intoxicant one is not to drink, any liquid of grapes one is not to drink, and grapes, moist or dried, one is not to eat.
Numbers 6:4 All the days of one's being-consecrated, anything that is made from the vine of wine, from seeds to skin, one is not to eat.
Numbers 6:5 All the days of one's vow of being-consecrated a razor is not to go-across one's head; until the fulfilling of days that one is consecrated for YHVH, holy shall one remain; one is to grow loose the hair on one's head.
Numbers 6:6 All the days that one consecrates-oneself for YHVH, near a dead person one is not to come- Numbers 6:7 (even) for one's father or one's mother, one's brother or one's sister; one is not to make-oneself-tamei by them when they die, for (hair) consecrated for one's God is upon one's head.
מאי שנא נודר דלא דלמא אתי בה לידי תקלה
When Rabbi Meir said that one should abstain from making vows, he was referring only to a vow; he did not say it with regard to a gift offering.
ר׳׳ן
ונראה בעיני דלהכי מדמינן לה לבונה במה משום דסליק אדעתיה דנודר דמצוה קא עביד דרחמנא אסריה במילי דאיסורא ואיהו נמי אסר אנפשיה וקאמר דטעי דאדרבה לבונה במה דמי דנהי דרחמנא אזהריה לאקרובי קרבנות בפנים
Ran:
Building such an alter was forbidden at the time such a vow would be made. Even though it would appear in the eyes of the vower that he was following the halacha, and he would believe that it was proper to build an alter for the sacrificial service. In truth, however, he commits a sin, as the Torah commands that one not build additional alters and make sacrifices outside the Temple.
(ב) קָרְבָּן לֹא אֹכַל לָךְ, קָרְבָּן שֶׁאֹכַל לָךְ, לֹא קָרְבָּן לֹא אֹכַל לָךְ, מֻתָּר. שְׁבוּעָה לֹא אֹכַל לָךְ, שְׁבוּעָה שֶׁאֹכַל לָךְ, לֹא שְׁבוּעָה לֹא אֹכַל לָךְ, אָסוּר. זֶה חֹמֶר בַּשְּׁבוּעוֹת מִבַּנְּדָרִים. וְחֹמֶר בַּנְּדָרִים מִבַּשְּׁבוּעוֹת, כֵּיצַד, אָמַר, קוֹנָם סֻכָּה שֶׁאֲנִי עוֹשֶׂה, לוּלָב שֶׁאֲנִי נוֹטֵל, תְּפִלִּין שֶׁאֲנִי מֵנִיחַ, בַּנְּדָרִים אָסוּר, בַּשְּׁבוּעוֹת מֻתָּר, שֶׁאֵין נִשְׁבָּעִין לַעֲבֹר עַל הַמִּצְוֹת:
(2) [If someone says:] "korban that I will not eat of yours," [or] "korban that I eat of yours," [or] "what I do not eat of yours will not be korban [to me]," - [he is] permitted [to eat the food]. [If someone says] "shevuah that I will not eat of yours," [or] "shevuah that I eat of yours," [or] "what I do not eat of yours will not be shevuah [to me]," - [he is] forbidden [from eating the food]. Those are [situations where] oaths are more stringent than vows. [However,] there are [also situations where] vows are more stringent than oaths. How so? [If someone] says "konam is the sukkah that I build," [or] "the lulav that I take," [or] "the tefillin that I wrap," - [in the case of] vows [the action is] forbidden, [but in the case of] oaths, [the action is] permitted, because one cannot [swear an] oath to transgress a mitzvah of the Torah.
Then he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition! For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’ But you say that if anyone tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is Corban’ (that is, an offering to God)—then you no longer permit doing anything for a father or mother, thus making void the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this (Mark 7:9-13).”
He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’ But you say that whoever tells their father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is given to God,’ then that person need not honor their father and mother. So, for the sake of your tradition, you make void the word of God. You hypocrites (Matthew 15:3-7)!
Each individual is master of his possessions unless he has solemnly named the name of God over them or declared that he has given them to God. And if he has merely made a chance verbal promise of them he must not touch or handle them, but hold himself at once debarred from them all . . . . The same holds of any other persons over whom he has authority. If a man has devoted his wife's sustenance to a sacred purpose [lit.: "named a sacred name over his wife's sustenance"] he must refrain from giving her that sustenance; so with a father's gifts to his son or a master to his servants (Philo, Hypothetica, 7:3-7:5).