Regarding a vow to study Mishnayot by heart and its impact on other studies

Date: 5 Tevet 5594

From: Rabbi Moshe Sofer, Frankfurt am Main

To: Rabbi Meir

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The responsum advises a person who vowed to study Mishnayot by heart, but found it interfered with his regular studies, that he should seek annulment of the vow to allow him to return to his usual learning, as the annulment would not negate his past efforts.

Source: Shu"t Chasam Sofer Collected §45

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