Reference for Arakhin 35:42

<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> יום שלשים כלמטה הימנה שנת חמש ושנת עשרים כלמטה מהם

WHEREBY IT WOULD BE MORE LENIENT?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The valuation from twenty to sixty is fifty shekels. From sixty up it is fifteen. From five to twenty, twenty shekels. Now the Torah in considering one of sixty years to be under age, imposes upon the vower the highest payment - a stringency. Would one stretch the analogy so far as to do just the opposite: to lower the payment by considering one of twenty to be nineteen, which would mean reducing the sum due from fifty shekels to twenty?');">¹²</span>

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