We continue to learn about which vows are considered to create affliction and which vows might disrupt the marital relationship. In either of these cases, a husband has the authority to nullify his wife's vow. Amud (a) looks at further deals regarding intercourse and regarding what is 'brought'.
Amud (b) digs into what a husband should do if a wife's vow is only partially eligible to be nullifies. One example used is a wife's vow that two loaves should be forbidden to her but she eats one of the loaves. What if one loaf is of lower quality and one vow is of higher quality? Eating of a lower quality loaf is not an affliction, and so her husband cannot nullify her vow. He can only nullify a vow that causes her to deprive herself of something significant. But can this be compared with vowing to be a nazirite and then drinking wine when a wife did not know that her husband nullified her vow? And can a vow be only partially nullified? The rabbis consider these issues.
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