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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 418
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<b>דין תענית בראש חודש. ובו ה סעיפים:</b><br>ראש חודש אסור בתענית:
The law of fasting on the beginning of the month. Containing five sections. On the beginning of the month it is forbidden to fast.
אין גוזרין תענית על הצבור בראשי חדשים חנוכה ופורים ואם התחילו שגזרו להתענות כך וכך ימי' והתחילו בהם קודם ר"ח אפי' יום א' אין מפסיקין ומתענין ומשלימין:
Fasts are not decreed for the congregation to occur on the beginning of the month, on Chanukah, or on Purim. If they began, i.e. they declared a fast of a specified number of days, beginning from before the beginning of the month, then even on the first of the month they shall not disrupt [the fast. Instead] they shall fast and remedy it.
יחיד שקבל עליו תענית כך וכך ימים ופגע בו ר"ח או שקיבל עליו להתענו' בר"ח אם קבלו בלשון קבל' תעני' בעלמא אינו צריך התרה ואם קבלו עליו בלשון הרי עלי שהוא לשון נדר צריך התרת חכם (ועיין בי"ד סי' רט"ו ס"ג):
An individual who commits himself to a fast of a specified number of days, and the beginning of the month interrupts, or if he commits himself to fast on the beginning of the month: If he committed himself using common language of accepting fast, he does not require formal release from his vow (and his pledge is automatically abrogated). But if he committed himself with the phrasing "I hereby accept upon myself," i.e. the language used for an oath, he needs to be released from his vow by a sage. See Yoreh De'ah, Chapter 216 section 3.
אם נשבע להתענו' כך וכך ימים ואירע בהם ר"ח השבועה חלה עליו מטעם איסור כולל ואם נשבע בפירוש להתענו' בר"ח נ"ל שחלה עליו שבועה כיון שאינו אלא מדרבנן אלא שמדברי הרמב"ם נראה לכאורה שהוא מדאורייתא [וע"ל סי' תק"ע]:
If he swore to fast a specified number of days and the beginning of the month happened to be included among them, the oath is binding upon him because of the general prohibition. However, if he explicitly swore to fast on the beginning of the month, it appears to me that the oath is binding on him because the [prohibition] has only a rabbinical source. Yet from the words of Rambam, it appears that the source is biblical. See earlier, chapter 570.
המתענה בר"ח או בחנוכה ופורים תעני' חלום צריך למיתב תעניתא לתעניתיה:
One who fasts for a dream on the beginning of the month, on Chanukah, or on Purim, must add a [second] fast onto his fast.
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