Quoting%20commentary for Shevuot 57:4

אמר לעדים בואו והעידוני שבועה שלא נעידך נשבע לבטל את המצוה שלא לעשות סוכה ושלא ליטול לולב ושלא להניח תפילין זו היא שבועת שוא שחייבין על זדונה מכות ועל שגגתה פטור

GEMARA. Ulla said: Provided that it was already known to three men. IF HE SWORE CONCERNING A THING WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE, [AS E.G., ] 'IF I HAVE NOT SEEN A CAMEL FLYING IN THE AIR.' T swear that I have seen,' he does not say! What [then] is meant by, 'If I have not seen ? Abaye said: Learn, I SWEAR I have seen.' Raba said: [The Mishnah means:] he said, '[I swear that] all the fruits of the world shall be prohibited to me, if I have not seen a camel flying in the air.' Said Rabina to R. Ashi: Perhaps this man saw a large bird, and gave it the name of camel, and when he swore, he swore according to his own mind; and if you say, we go according to his mouth, and we do not go according to his mind, [that cannot be,] for it has been taught: When they adjure him, they say to him, 'Know that we do not adjure you according to your own mind, but according to the mind of the Omnipresent and the mind of the Beth din.' What is the reason? Is it not because we say, perhaps he gave him counters, and called them zuzim, in which case when he swears, he swears according to his own mind? - No! There [the reason is] because of the cane of Raba. <br>

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