Q&A: Non-Jewish Milk Powder and Annulment of Vows (related to the weekly Torah portion :))
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Non-Jewish Milk Powder and Annulment of Vows (related to the weekly Torah portion :))
Question
In our home we were careful for years not to eat non-Jewish milk powder.
My children run into situations where, at friends' homes and elsewhere, there is only non-Jewish milk powder.
We learned the topic together and saw that there are many reasons to be lenient about it, and they want to be lenient.
Do they need to perform annulment of vows? (One is under bar mitzvah age and one is over.)
Answer
I think one may be lenient without annulment for two reasons: you arrived at a different halakhic conclusion. That is not a vow. You did not vow verbally, only by actual practice. In addition, one can combine this with the annulment of vows done on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.