Mishnayos Nedarim Perek 9 Mishnah 7
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How so? In the case of one who said to a group of people: I will not benefit from all of you as it is konam for me, if benefit from one of them was permitted for whatever reason, benefit from all of them is permitted. However, if one said: I will not benefit from this one and from that one as it is konam for me, then if benefit from the first one was permitted for whatever reason, benefit from all of them is permitted. But if benefit from the last one was permitted, benefit from the last one alone is permitted, but benefit from all the others is forbidden, as the benefit from each is considered to have been prohibited by a separate vow. If benefit from the middle one was permitted, then from him and below, i.e., all those enumerated after him, benefit is permitted; from him and above, i.e., those listed before him, benefit is forbidden. The mishna gives another example of interconnected vows: If one stated: I will not benefit from this one, as if he were an offering, and from that one, as if he were an offering, then an extenuation enabling the dissolution of a vow is required for each and every one, as they have the status of separate vows.
כֵּיצַד. אָמַר, קוֹנָם שֶׁאֵינִי נֶהֱנֶה לְכֻלְּכֶם, הֻתַּר אֶחָד מֵהֶן, הֻתְּרוּ כֻלָּן. שֶׁאֵינִי נֶהֱנֶה לָזֶה וְלָזֶה, הֻתַּר הָרִאשׁוֹן, הֻתְּרוּ כֻלָּן. הֻתַּר הָאַחֲרוֹן, הָאַחֲרוֹן מֻתָּר, וְכֻלָּן אֲסוּרִין. הֻתַּר הָאֶמְצָעִי, הֵימֶנּוּ וּלְמַטָּה מֻתָּר, הֵימֶנּוּ וּלְמַעְלָה אָסוּר. שֶׁאֵינִי נֶהֱנֶה לָזֶה קָרְבָּן וְלָזֶה קָרְבָּן, צְרִיכִין פֶּתַח לְכָל אֶחָד וְאֶחָד:
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לזה ולזה. כגון שאסר הראשון עליו בקונם, ואמר על השני הרי זה כראשון ועל השלישי הרי זה כשני, וכן כולם. הותר הראשון הותרו כולם, שכולם תלויין בו:
לזה קרבן ולזה קרבן. הא מתניתין רבי שמעון היא דאמר גבי שבועת הפקדון אם היו חמשה תובעים אותו וכפר ונשבע והודה שאינו חייב קרבן על כל אחד עד שיאמר שבועה לכל אחד ואחד, והכא נמי צריך שיאמר לזה קרבן ולזה קרבן. אבל חכמים אומרים אם אמר שבועה שאיני חייב לך ולא לך ולא לך, חייב על כל אחד ואחד, והכא נמי אם אמר לא לזה ולא לזה ולא לזה, אע״פ שלא הזכיר קרבן על כל אחד, הוי כל אחד נדר בפני עצמו. וכן הלכה:
לזה ולזה – as, for example, he prohibited the first upon himself by KONAM, and said regarding the second [person], “behold this is like the first,” and on the third [person], “behold this is like the second,” and similarly all of them. If the first was released, all of them are released, for all of them are dependent upon this one.
לזה קרבן ולזה קרבן – surely our Mishnah is [according to] Rabbi Shimon who stated concerning the oath of a deposit (i.e., with the intention of falsely denying a deposit or a debt; he must add one-fifth to it and bring a ram as a guilt-offering); if there were five people make claims against him and he denied it and took an oath and admitted that he is not liable for a sacrifice on each one until he takes an oath for each and every one, and here too, he must state, to this one a sacrifice/KORBAN and to that one a sacrifice/KORBAN. But the Sages state that if he made an oath that I am not liable to youm nor to you nor to you, he is liable for each and every one, and here too if he said to this one, but not to that one nor to that one, even though he did not mention KORBAN on each one, for each one is a vow on its own. And such is the Halakha.