Hello chevre and welcome back to our pre-Pesach Mishnayos learning series where we are learning Mishnayos related to the period of time between Purim and Pesach. So as we mentioned in yesterday's Mishnah as well in Maaser Sheni that because Pesach was such a focal point of the Jewish calendar, many other halachos are kind of tied to the Pesach time because people kind of pointed to Pesach as a period of time of transition. So they would reference Pesach as a moment in like we said before it might have to do with plowing their fields, it's about biur of their maaser and today we're going to learn about Nedarim when people make promises. Now when we say promises here what we'll see in our Mishnah is something the formulation of the promise of the neder is something along the lines of such and such a thing should be prohibited to me should be assur to me if I do XYZ. So for instance it should be assur to me this wine forever if I drink between now and such and such a date. So therefore if you drink before that date any wine the wine will be forever assur to you. Or this pizza should be assur to me forever if I eat any pizza between now and such and such a date so you will never be allowed to eat pizza if you eat during that period of time unless you go and ask the chacham and he's matir your neder. So given that formulation tonight we will be covering two Mishnayos companion Mishnayos both found in Perek Ches of Nedarim one is Mishnah Beis and one is Mishnah Hei in which people reference make these promises related to a time period. They will not do something between now and a period of time and we will see that some of them relate to Pesach and therefore and they and it ends on Erev Pesach but again the point is that people all seem to reference Pesach all the time. Pesach will not be the only time we reference in our Mishnah we'll see but Pesach seems to be a period of time when people were focused on like I will not do that until Pesach and then and then the Mishnah will discuss how we talk about that. One other thing we need to keep in mind is that we will see in our Mishnayos that language makes a very big difference and part of that is because when it comes to Nedarim we look at lashon bnei adam. We look at how people use speech. And sometimes the machlokes we have in our Mishnayos related to Nedarim is how people understood other people's language. Right? We only can understand language in certain ways and how do people use these words and what do people mean by these words? And so often times that's where this the halachos of Nedarim come from is trying to understand how did people use these words and what did they mean when they said certain words. So we will begin our discussion with Mishnah Beis like this the Mishnah again פרק ח משנה ב in Nedarim. Someone says and the Mishnah doesn't really tell us what he's promising or swearing off what he's saying is I this thing should be assur to me forever if I let's say eat this ad hapesach. The Mishnah says until Pesach. So then assur ad sheyagiya. The Mishnah is very clear. So then it's assur for you to eat that thing up until Pesach. So the idea being is that when people say until Pesach although sometimes we have a rule that when you say until it means including the thing that you're talking about but when normally when people speak ad hapesach would mean up until the Erev Pesach because starting from Pesach this particular item will now be muttar to me. What about ad sheyehei until it is Pesach? Then assur ad sheyeitzei. According to our Mishnah when people say ad sheyehei until it is Pesach it means until it is Pesach in the behind us. So meaning up until up and through Pesach including Pesach. Now we will see in Mishnah Hei that there may be a machlokes as it relates to this language but we'll see that in Mishnah Hei. Finally the last case of our Mishnah is ad lifnei hapesach until before Pesach. Now here we're going to see an interesting question because when someone says until the until before Pesach does it mean until Pesach begins or does it mean until the end of Pesach meaning until before the end of Pesach? And that is a machlokes. Rabbi Meir omer Rabbi Meir says assur ad sheyagiya you're assur in that item up until Pesach begins but then on the end of Erev Pesach on starting on Pesach you'd be muttar and it permitted. רבי יוסי אומר אסור עד שיצא that in fact when you say these words of ad lifnei hapesach it means until Pesach is over it is behind us and therefore it would be assur in that item until the end. And with that I wish you continuing hatzlacha.