Related%20passage for Nedarim 11:4

קוֹנָם שֶׁאֵינִי עוֹשָׂה עַל פִּי אַבָּא, וְעַל פִּי אָבִיךָ, וְעַל פִּי אָחִי, וְעַל פִּי אָחִיךָ, אֵינוֹ יָכוֹל לְהָפֵר. שֶׁאֵינִי עוֹשָׂה עַל פִּיךָ, אֵינוֹ צָרִיךְ לְהָפֵר. רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא אוֹמֵר, יָפֵר, שֶׁמָּא תַעְדִּיף עָלָיו יוֹתֵר מִן הָרָאוּי לוֹ. רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן בֶּן נוּרִי אוֹמֵר, יָפֵר, שֶׁמָּא יְגָרְשֶׁנָּה וּתְהִי אֲסוּרָה עָלָיו:

(If she said:) "Konam that I not work for the mouth of my father," or "for the mouth of your father," or "for the mouth of my brother," or "for the mouth of your brother," he cannot annul it. [i.e., If she said: "Hekdesh ("dedicated") shall be all of my work from coming to the mouth of my father"; that is, that my father not be able to benefit from my handiwork, he cannot annul it; for these are not "things between him and her." And in this all agree, that if she forbids others from benefitting from her, her husband cannot annul it.] (If she said: "Konam,) that I not work for your mouth," he need not annul it. [For she is obligated to him. And even though hekdesh dissolves obligations, the sages strengthened her obligation to her husband, the vower not being enabled to dissolve that obligation.] R. Akiva says: He should annul it, for she might earn in addition to what reverts to him [and "hekdesh" takes effect upon that addition, it not reverting to him. He must, therefore, annul it; and the annulment is of avail, the vow entailing "things between him and her," it being impossible that the addition not become intermixed with what reverts to her husband.] R. Yochanan b. Nuri says: He should annul it, lest he divorce her and she be forbidden to return to him. [And her basic handiwork requires annulment, lest he divorce her and her obligation to her husband be dissolved, at which point the vow will take effect, and she will be forbidden to return to him. The halachah is in accordance with R. Yochanan b. Nuri. (And we are speaking of an instance where she says: "Let my hands be hekdesh to their Maker," the hands being "in the world" (so that she is not vowing in respect to "something which is not in the world"), and hekdesh "takes" upon them.]

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