Positive Mitzvah Seven Taking Oaths In The Name of G-d
By this injunction we are commanded to swear only by His Name, Baruch Hu, whenever we are required to confirm or deny something on oath, because by so doing we exalt, honor and magnify Him.
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In a Beit Din, a Jew may be required to take an oath confirming that he is telling the truth. When taking an oath, he is commanded to swear by the name of Hashem. He will be using Hashem's holy
Name to convince the court of his honesty. One who fears and serves G-d has a right to swear, for his piety will assure that he will do so
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It is for this reason that it is not permissible to swear by any created object, such as the
angels or the stars, save only where the oath is elliptical: as, for instance, where one swears by the truth of the sun, meaning 'by the truth of the G-d of the sun'. It is in this manner that our nation swears by the name of Moshe our Teacher - honored be his name - as though he who swears were to say 'by the G-d of Moshe', or 'by Him who sent Moshe'. But whenever the one who swears does not mean it so, but swears by a created object, in the belief that that object has in itself such truth that one can swear by it, he transgresses by placing some other object on an equal footing with the Name of Heaven: and on this Tradition says:
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