Related%20passage for Nazir 9:1

הַגּוֹיִם אֵין לָהֶם נְזִירוּת. נָשִׁים וַעֲבָדִים יֵשׁ לָהֶם נְזִירוּת. חֹמֶר בַּנָּשִׁים מִבָּעֲבָדִים, שֶׁהוּא כוֹפֶה אֶת עַבְדּוֹ וְאֵינוֹ כוֹפֶה אֶת אִשְׁתּוֹ. חֹמֶר בָּעֲבָדִים מִבַּנָּשִׁים, שֶׁהוּא מֵפֵר נִדְרֵי אִשְׁתּוֹ וְאֵינוֹ מֵפֵר נִדְרֵי עַבְדּוֹ. הֵפֵר לְאִשְׁתּוֹ, הֵפֵר עוֹלָמִית. הֵפֵר לְעַבְדּוֹ, יָצָא לְחֵרוּת מַשְׁלִים נְזִירוּתוֹ. עָבַר מִכְּנֶגֶד פָּנָיו, רַבִּי מֵאִיר אוֹמֵר, לֹא יִשְׁתֶּה, וְרַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר, יִשְׁתֶּה:

Naziritism does not obtain with gentiles. [Even though gentiles bring vow and gift offerings as Israelites do, if a gentile vowed Naziritism, it does not apply to him, and he is permitted to drink wine and to make himself unclean for the dead, it being written in the beginning of the section on Naziritism (Numbers 6:2): "Speak to the children of Israel" — Naziritism obtains with the children of Israel, and not with gentiles.] Naziritism obtains with women and with bondsmen. A stringency of women over bondsmen: One can force his bondsman [to drink wine and to make himself unclean for the dead], but he cannot force his wife. [And in other vows of affliction and of abstention from work, the master need not force his bondsmen, but they are voided of themselves, it being written (Numbers 30:3): "to bind a bond upon his soul" — one whose soul is like his own, to exclude a bondsman, whose "soul" is not his own. Likewise, with all oaths sworn by a bondsman, whether or not they are vows of affliction, his master need not force him, for they are voided of themselves, the bondsman having no jurisdiction over himself. But a bondsman is obligated to fulfill vows which do not entail affliction or abstention from his master's work, and his master cannot force their voidance.] A stringency of bondsmen over women: He can annul the vows of his wife, but he cannot annul the vows of his bondsman. [If he desired that his wife fulfill her vow after he had annulled it, she is not obligated to fulfill it once it has been annulled. But if he forced his bondsman to transgress his vow and then desired him to fulfill it, he must fulfill it. ] If he annulled his wife's (Naziritism), it is "eternally" annulled. If he annulled his bondsman's (Naziritism), when he goes out free, he completes his Naziritism. [Not literally, "annulled"; but if he forced his bondsman to drink wine or to make himself unclean for the dead, and then the bondsman went out free, he must complete his Naziritism. Rambam explains: If one says to his bondsman: "It (your Naziritism) is annulled," the master's rights in him dissolve, the bondsman gains his freedom thereby, and he must complete his Naziritism. (I am uneasy with this interpretation.)] If he (the bondsman) fled from him [after he had vowed Naziritism], R. Meir says: He should not drink (wine) [so that he be aggrieved and return to his master, who will force him to transgress his vow, and thus permit him to drink wine.] R. Yossi says: He should drink [so that he not take ill and die. For he is destined to return to his master. For his master will seek him out and take him back, so that it is as if he is in his master's domain].

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