Payment for Commitment
Question
One young man committed to another young man that if he does not go to a certain yeshiva, he will give him a sum of money, and they made a document and kinyan for this. Indeed, the young man is not going to that yeshiva. Is the first one obligated to pay the money?
Answer
He is obligated.
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Smicha "Yoreh-Yoreh" (2012), Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah
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Source
Ketubot 81:
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