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Releasing vows about wearing pants

שו”תCategory: HalachaReleasing vows about wearing pants
asked 2 months ago

Someone I know wants to start wearing pants after always wearing a skirt (except in pajamas).
Does she need to make a vow to change her habits?
Does it matter whether her motivation is because she wants to make it easier for herself or because she thinks there’s no point in being a skirt mom?


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מיכי Staff answered 2 months ago
If someone makes a mistake in the law and his mistake becomes clear to him, he does not need to dissolve his vows. In addition, this is not a vow, but a custom that was practiced three times, and this is why dissolving vows on the eve of the Lord’s Supper is beneficial.

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מישהו replied 2 months ago

She did not make a vows revocation on the eve of the R”H. So that does not apply.
Besides the fact that this is not a clarification of a mistake but a desire to make things easier for herself, will she have to make a vows revocation before the Lay Court? Or can she do something else?

מיכי Staff replied 2 months ago

Yes, it is desirable that they have some knowledge of the laws of vows.

מישהו replied 2 months ago

Her motivation is a combination of the fact that she thinks pants are modest and that she wants to make it easier for herself. Does this fall under the definition of being wrong in the law and then she won't need to have her vows revoked?

In the same vein, can a woman appoint a messenger to have her vows revoked?

מיכי Staff replied 2 months ago

So maybe it's worth doing. And I'm still not sure it's necessary since she didn't really take a vow/swear and in fact she wore a skirt and not pants, which is a passive rarity. It's hard to say that she didn't wear pants three times, because every woman sometimes doesn't wear pants. On the other hand, according to your description, there are indications that she did it intentionally, meaning that she had the intention of accepting it upon herself, and perhaps even said it in practice.
A messenger for the divorce is a Rishonim dispute. The Shulchan Ar-Ra'd rules that it is not done, but the husband can be a messenger.

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