Halakhah for Nedarim 4:2

הַמֻּדָּר הֲנָאָה מֵחֲבֵרוֹ, שׁוֹקֵל אֶת שִׁקְלוֹ, וּפוֹרֵעַ אֶת חוֹבוֹ, וּמַחֲזִיר לוֹ אֶת אֲבֵדָתוֹ. מְקוֹם שֶׁנּוֹטְלִין עָלֶיהָ שָׂכָר, תִּפֹּל הֲנָאָה לַהֶקְדֵּשׁ:

If one bevows benefit from one's neighbor, he may give his shekel [the half-shekel that every man in Israel gives every year for the congregational offerings. The vower may give it for him because he thereby simply performs a mitzvah.], and he may pay his debt [Some understand this as applying only to an instance where the borrower stipulated with the lender that he could repay the loan whenever he wished and not be "pressured" for it, so that now, by repaying his loan, he is not (directly) benefitting him at all. Others understand it as applying to all debts. For (by paying the debt) he merely prevents his creditor from claiming it, and preventing a claim is not considered "benefitting"], and he may return his lost object [whether the property of the returner were forbidden to the owner of the lost object, or the property of the owner of the lost object were forbidden to the returner, for he is (simply) performing a mitzvah.] In a place where one is paid for this, the benefit falls to hekdesh (the Temple). [When both bevow benefit from each other, if he (one of them) takes pay, he is found to benefit; and if he does not take it, he is found to benefit the other. Therefore, the money falls to hekdesh. And we do not say: "Let him take the benefit to the Dead Sea," for he forbade benefit to himself as hekdesh, for which reason any benefit accruing to him thereby reverts to hekdesh.]

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