I'm near the end of watching an old black-and-white Yiddish film entitled Le Dibbouk, about a rabbi who breaks a vow to marry his child to his rabbi friend's child when their wives are pregnant. The other man died before his child was born, and his son dies in the process of trying to overturn the first man's daughter's impending marriage to a man who doesn't even want to marry her.
A rabbinical counsel is convened in which the spirit of the dead friend is brought to the counsel, and reactions to the light and wind behind a screen are interpreted by the counsel as being the deceased friend's reactions. People speak on both behalf's, but the head Rebbe ultimately comes forth with a declaration that the living man wasn't bound by the promised because the Torah asserts that no man can be bound by a contract made involving anything that hasn't yet been created. Of course, my immediate reaction was that both the boy and the girl had actually already been created, even if they hadn't yet emerged from the womb, so I was thinking this was going to be a statement about abortion, but the movie is 84 years old, so that isn't where it goes. Instead, it appears to be a statement about elevating the traditions of man over the Word of Yah.
After the Rebbe announces his final decision, he asks the deceased man if he accepts, then declares that the reaction that occurs connotes acceptance (also a requirement for legiitimacy), but the living man who would benefit from the decision doesn't even look like he agrees, and every other rabbi present declares that it's obvious that Nisn does not agree.
The head Rebbe then says this: "Even if, in the worlds above, it had been decided otherwise, I would reverse their decision!"
Tradition!!!