Chapter 67 – Vows and Oaths
67.1) Avoid making vows.
67.2) Avoid taking an oath.
67.3) Do not make a vow to give to charity.
67.4) Do not make a vow or take an oath to study Torah.
67.5) Making a vow to improve your conduct is praiseworthy.
67.6) A vow is only valid if uttered aloud with the intention to fulfill it.
67.7) To cancel a vow you must be legally absolved from it.
67.8) Being absolved from a vow or oath requires you to appear before learned men of the Torah.
67.9) A boy must be thirteen years old to make a vow or take an oath; a girl twelve years old.
67.10) Fathers of girls less than twelve years and six months old may absolve their daughters of a vow. Husbands may absolve their wife of a vow.
67.11) Fathers can absolve only vows that involve physical privations.