Responsa for Gittin 69:7
אלמנה שאני דבההיא הנאה דקא טרחה קמי דיתמי אתיא לאורויי היתרא
Is this so? Is it not a fact that Rab would not enforce payment of a <i>kethubah</i> [by orphans] to a widow?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely he could have had an oath imposed on her outside the Beth din. ');"><sup>6</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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