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גמ׳ ״כל כינויי נדרים כנדרים״, מאי שנא גבי נזיר דלא קתני להו לכולהו, ומאי שנא גבי נדרים דקתני לכולהו?
Talmud: It was taught in the Mishnah that all substitutes for the language of vows are like vows, substitutes for the language of dedications are like dedications, substitutes for the language of oaths are like oaths, and substitutes for the language of nazirite vows are like nazirite vows. The Talmud asks: What is different with regard to the first Mishnah of tractate Nazir that it does not teach all of them, i.e., all of the cases listed above besides nazirite vows, and what is different with regard to the first Mishnah of tractate Nedarim that it teaches all of them and not merely the case of vows, which is the subject directly relevant to this tractate?
משום דנדר ושבועה כתיבי גבי הדדי תני תרתין, וכיון דתני תרתין — תני לכולהו.
The Talmud answers that due to the fact that vows and oaths are written next to each other in the Torah in the verse: “When a man takes a vow to YHWH, or swears an oath” (Numbers 30:3), the Mishnah teaches these two cases, i.e., substitutes for the language of vows and oaths. And since it taught two of the cases, it taught all of them.
The Talmud asks: If so, let the Mishnah teach the halakha with regard to substitutes for the language of oaths immediately after the case of substitutes for the language of vows. The Talmud answers: Since it taught the case of vows, by which an object becomes forbidden to one, it taught also the case of dedications, by which an object becomes forbidden to one. This is to the exclusion of an oath, by which one prohibits himself from making use of an object. In the case of an oath, unlike a vow or a dedication, one prohibits himself from performing a particular action rather than declaring an object to be forbidden.