Shulchan Arukh Yoreh De'ah · Siman 210

Shulchan Arukh Yoreh De'ah 210 — English translation

Section numbers match the Hebrew text above.

1. 1A vow is invalid unless one's heart and lips (intention and speech) are aligned. Therefore if one intended to say 'wheat bread' and actually said 'barley bread', both kinds are permitted. If one, however, intended to say 'wheat bread' (RAMA: or barley bread) and just said "bread", they are only forbidden to eat wheat bread. (RAMA: or only barley bread.) And if one vows according to the intention of others, the definitions follow those of the other, and the vow applies to these.
2. 2One who vows in their dream, it is meaningless and they don't need it to be annulled. However, there are those who say that it has to be annulled by ten literate judges (RAMA: And they find a point of regret, as if they had vowed awake.) And this [second] opinion should be heeded. RAMA: However, if it is difficult to find ten literate judges, one can then do it with three, as usual.
3. 3Quand une personne, après avoir fait un vœu, le retire immédiatement, parce qu’elle le regrette ou pour suivre le conseil de personnes présentes, son vœu est annulé, si elle a dit clairement qu’elle le retirait. Mais si cette personne dit, quelque temps après le prononcé du vœu, qu’elle avait, en son for intérieur, aussitôt retiré son vœu, ce vœu reste réel.