Responsa for Gittin 69:12
ההיא דאתאי לקמיה דרבה בר רב הונא אמר לה מאי אעביד ליך דרב לא מגבי כתובה לארמלתא ואבא מרי לא מגבי כתובה לארמלתא
She said to him: Turn his seat upside down!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [May he be humiliated (Rashi) — a curse the allusion of which is not quite clear. Goldschmidt connects it with the action of overturning the seat of one who died.] ');"><sup>10</sup></span>
Teshuvot Maharam
Q. A swore by the Ten Commandments that he would never live with his wife again and that he would divorce her, if she would not take a ritual bath on that particular night. Can such an oath be dissolved by a scholar?
A. During the period of the Geonim the strict law was adopted that no oath could be dissolved by a scholar if such oath was taken by the pronouncing of the name of God, by the Torah, or by the Ten Commandments.
SOURCES: Cr. 18; Pr. 120, 121, 122; Mord. Sheb. 758; Rashba I, 854. Cf. R. Haim b. Isaac Or Zarua, Responsa, 12; Maharil, Responsa 129; Moses Minz, Responsa 47.
A. During the period of the Geonim the strict law was adopted that no oath could be dissolved by a scholar if such oath was taken by the pronouncing of the name of God, by the Torah, or by the Ten Commandments.
SOURCES: Cr. 18; Pr. 120, 121, 122; Mord. Sheb. 758; Rashba I, 854. Cf. R. Haim b. Isaac Or Zarua, Responsa, 12; Maharil, Responsa 129; Moses Minz, Responsa 47.
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