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In this case, one may assume that both want to complete the deal at 3 dinars, and they did not intend to vow but only exaggerated for purposes of bargaining.
Talmud: The Mishnah states: The rabbis dissolved 4 types of vows. R' Abba bar Memel said to R' Ami: You said to us in the name of R' Yehuda Nesia: Who is the tanna who taught this Mishnah of 4 vows? It is the opinion of R' Yehuda, who said in the name of R' Tarfon: With regard to two people who en
Rava said: You can even say that the Mishnah is in accordance with the Rabbis, who disagree with R' Yehuda. Does the Mishnah teach: Both wanted the price to be 3 dinars? It teaches: Both want, in the present tense, demonstrating that they would have been satisfied with that price from the outset a
Ravina said to Rav Ashi: If the seller said to the buyer in the form of a vow that the price must remain more than a sela, and the other declared in the form of a vow that the price must remain less than a shekel, what is the halakha? Is this a vow, where each stands firmly in his position? Or pe
Rav Ashi said to him: We already learned about a similar case: If one was importuning another that he should eat with him and the other refused and said to him: Entering your house is konam for me, or: A drop of cold water is konam for me, and for that reason I will not taste it with you, it is per