Guiding Questions: Numbers 30

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. Is a vow to be regarded lightly?
  2. Do women vow as well?
  3. However, where women are concerned, can their vows be “cancelled” by father or husband, as the case may be?
  4. What must be done by either father (for daughter) or husband (for wife) to cancel her vow?
  5. On the other hand, for a widow or a divorcee, is there any mode of canceling their vows (Numbers 30:10)?
  6. In essence, then, who controls the vowing “capacity” of the woman?
  7. Does this particular legislation adhere to the overall approach that there is no complete “equality” in many matters between the man and the woman? verse of Numbers 30 appear to belong with that chapter or to serve as a conclusion to Numbers 29?

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