Reference for Chullin 3:11

אלא הכל מעריכין ונערכין נודרין ונידרין הכי נמי דלכתחלה

for there the Mishnah goes on to explain: 'Not that a person is allowed to change, but only that, if he has changed, the change is effective and he receives forty stripes'.

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