Mesorat%20hashas for Nedarim 40:14

מתני׳ <big><strong>ארבעה</strong></big> נדרים התירו חכמים נדרי זרוזין ונדרי הבאי ונדרי שגגות ונדרי אונסין נדרי זרוזין כיצד היה מוכר חפץ ואמר קונם שאיני פוחת לך מן הסלע והלה אומר קונם שאיני מוסיף לך על השקל

of a woman mistaken for another,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Having intended to cohabit with one of his wives, he cohabited with another. ');">¹²</span> of strife,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Not a hated wife, but one with whom he had just then quarrelled. ');">¹³</span> of intoxication [during intercourse], of a mentally divorced wife,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., when her husband has decided to divorce her. ');">¹⁴</span> of promiscuity, and of a brazen woman.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One who openly demands her conjugal rights. ');">¹⁵</span> But that is not so: for did not R. Samuel b. Nahmani say in the name of R. Jonathan: One who is summoned to his marital duty by his wife will beget children such as were not to be found even in the generation of Moses? For it is said, Take you wise men, and understanding [and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you];<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. I. 13. ');">¹⁶</span> and it is written, So I took the chiefs of your tribes, wise men and known<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. I, 15. ');">¹⁷</span> but 'understanding' is not mentioned.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Heb. [H] is here taken to denote the highest degree of wisdom — but such could not be found. ');">¹⁸</span> But it is also written, Issachar is a large-boned ass;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. XLIX, 14; cf. Gen. XXX. 16-18. The allusion is to the legend that Leah heard the braying of Jacob's ass, and so came out of the tent and said to Jacob, thou must come in unto me. She had thus demanded her conjugal rights. ');">¹⁹</span> whilst elsewhere it is written, And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the titles?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Chron. XII. 33; though such men were not to be found in the days of Moses. This was Leah's reward, thus proving that it is meritorious for a woman to demand her rights. ');">²⁰</span> — [It is virtuous] only when the wife ingratiates herself [with her husband].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' She may shew her desires, as did Leah, who merely invited Jacob into her tent, but not explicitly demand their gratification. ');">²¹</span> <b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. FOUR TYPES OF VOWS HAVE THE SAGES INVALIDATED;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'permitted'. ');">²²</span> VIZ., VOWS INCENTIVE, VOWS OF EXAGGERATION, VOWS IN ERROR, AND VOWS [BROKEN] UNDER PRESSURE.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is explained infra 27a. ');">²³</span> VOWS INCENTIVE: E.G., IF ONE WAS SELLING AN ARTICLE AND SAID, KONAM THAT I DO NOT LET YOU HAVE IT FOR LESS THAN A SELA''; AND THE OTHER REPLIED, KONAM THAT I DO NOT GIVE YOU MORE THAN A <i>SHEKEL</i> —

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