Reply To: Hataras Nedarim Author

Here are my questions:

1)Poskim advise to say it in a language you understand, bdieved if you say it in Hebrew and don’t understand it, is it a valid hatarah?

2)Since you are being matir many nedarim at once, with the pesach being the same for many of them, do you counter in every single neder how it affects the other one?

To give an example, someone has 2 minhag tovas, one to wear a tie by every davening, and one to come early to every davening to learn early in the morning. He wants to do a hatarah for both. Let’s say the minhag tova of coming early came first. Let’s say he never knew the halacha that a minhag tova becomes a neder. Now, if by the minhag of coming early to learn, the pesach would be had he knew the halacha, and that had he known he would not be able to keep it forever, he would have said “bli neder”.

Fine, but now since he had said “bli neder” by this minhag tov (of coming early) he would not have said “bli neder” by wearing a tie. (for whatever reason).

But if we look at every neder individually, then the pesach of “he never knew the halacha and had he known he couldn’t keep it forever”, would work by the tie neder also.

Basically, if we consider the pesach as like it really happened retoracively , then later on it would affect his other nederim and he may not have said “bli neder” But if we factor every neder individually, he would have said “bli neder”.

So how do we look at it, anybody know?