Musar for Shabbat 296:16
והא אנן תנן אין נמנין על הבהמה בתחילה ביו"ט שאני הכא כיון דרגיל אצלו כמאן דאימני ביה מעיקרא דמי
— This sanctification is a Rabbinical preferment.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' l.e. the Rabbis held it more fitting that the owner too should sanctify the animal, but actually that has already been done. ');"><sup>27</sup></span> But did R. Johanan say thus? Surely R. Johanan said: The <i>halachah</i> is [always] as an anonymous Mishnah, whereas we learnt: One may not sanctify, vow a 'valuation',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Heb. [H]. This is the technical term for a vow to give one's own or another person's 'valuation' to the Temple. V. Lev. XXVII, 1ff ');"><sup>28</sup></span>
Orchot Tzadikim
And they said: Just as it is a commandment to say a thing that will be heard, so is it a commandment not to say a thing that will not be heard (Yebamoth 65b). And our Sages said, "Better that they (the sinners) should commit a wrong not knowing that it is a wrong, than that they should commit that wrong intentionally" (Shabbath 148b).
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