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The Gemora (Nedarim 87a) issues a halachic ruling: The halachah is that a statement which follows another statement within the period of an utterance is regarded as if it were made together with the first one except in the case of blasphemy, idolatry, betrothal and divorce. (If one commits blasphemy or practices idolatry, and immediately, within the period of utterance, retracts, his retraction is unavailing, and he will still incur the death penalty. If a man betroths a woman or divorces her, and immediately thereafter changes his mind, such withdrawal is invalid.)
The Ran comments that he doesn’t know why these cases are different and from where did the Rabbis derive this. It would seem, he says, that in regard to other things that are not as serious, when a person does them, he doesn’t do them with absolute intent.
We explore the Halachic and linguistic aspects of “toch kedei dibbur”