ORIGINAL TITLE: כתב יד תימן התרת נדרים
MATERIAL: Hand-Written/Painted
COMPONENTS: Cloth covers, nine leaves (18 pages). Scribe signed and dated. שלום בן משה בן עודד זכריה
שנת קס"ב
CONDITION: Complete, holes throughout.
LANGUAGE
Hebrew
ITEM ID: 5466
Yemenite Manuscript of Hatarat Nedarim
DATE
Century: 19th (1801-1900)
Notes: 1802 of 1851 dependent upon which calendar was used.
The service of annulment of vows, Hatarat Nedarim.
Hatarat Nedarim, the Annulling of Personal Vows:
On erev (the day, or evening, before) Rosh Hashanah, some people choose to perform a ritual of introspection and spiritual mediation called hatarat nedarim, the annulling of vows. The ritual covers only vows made to themselves or to God — not vows made to another person. In hatarat nedarim an individual asks to be released from vows that may have been said in a heated moment, but were not truly of the heart, and from casual statements that may have been worded as vows, but were not intended as such. This ritual is part of Judaism’s system for giving people second chances; but of course not every vow can or will be annulled.
Religious
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