[If one said:] “Konam, wine, with respect to my tasting [it] because wine is bad for the bowels,” [and] they said to him: “But isn't old wine good for the bowels?” —- he is permitted aged wine; and not only is he permitted aged wine but all wine. “Konam, onions, with respect to my tasting [them] because onions are bad for the heart,” [and] they said to him: “But isn't village onion good for the heart?” —- he is permitted the village onion; and not only is he permitted the village onion, but also all onions. It once happened, and R' Meir permitted him all onions.

They can find grounds to annul a person's neder by [reason of] his own honor or the honor of his children. They say to him: “If you would have known that tomorrow they would say about you: `Such is the habit of So-and-so —- he divorces his wives,' and about your daughters they will say: `They are daughters of a divorced woman; what did their mother see to bring about her divorce?' [would you have vowed?].” If he said: “Had I known that this would be so, I would not have vowed!” —- it is permitted.

[If one says:] “Konam, my marrying So-and-so the ugly,” and, in fact, she is good looking; “dark,” and she is fair; “short,” and she is tall —- he is permitted her. [This is] not because she was ugly and became good looking, or dark and became fair, or short and became tall, but because the neder was an error.  It happened once that someone made a neder prohibiting benefit from his sister's daughter, and they brought her to R' Yishmael's house, and made her beautiful. R' Yishmael said to him: “My son, regarding this woman did you vow?” He said to him: “No.” Thereupon, R' Yishmael permitted [her]. At that time R' Yishmael wept and said: “The daughters of Israel are beautiful, but poverty makes them ugly.”  When R' Yishmael died, the daughters of Israel raised a lament, saying: “Daughters of Israel, weep over R' Yishmael.” And so, too, it says about Saul (II Samuel 1:24): Daughters of Israel, weep over Saul.