Mishnayos Kesuvos Perek 5 Mishnah 4
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If one consecrates his wife’s earnings, meaning anything she produces, such as thread that she spins from wool, which, according to the Sages’ ordinance, belongs to her husband, she may work and sustain herself from her earnings, as the consecration is ineffective. However, there is a dispute with regard to the surplus, meaning any earnings she produces in excess of the amount she is required to produce for her husband. Rabbi Meir says: The surplus is consecrated property, and Rabbi Yoḥanan the Cobbler says: The surplus is also non-sacred.
הַמַּקְדִּישׁ מַעֲשֵׂה יְדֵי אִשְׁתּוֹ, הֲרֵי זוֹ עוֹשָׂה וְאוֹכֶלֶת. הַמּוֹתָר, רַבִּי מֵאִיר אוֹמֵר, הֶקְדֵּשׁ. רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן הַסַּנְדְּלָר אוֹמֵר, חֻלִּין:
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הרי זו עושה ואוכלת. שתקנו מזונות תחת מעשה ידיה, לפיכך עושה ואוכלת לדברי הכל:
המותר. הקדיש את מותר מעשה ידי אשתו מה שהיא עושה יותר על הראוי למזונותיה, ולא הקדיש מעשה ידיה עצמן:
ר׳ מאיר אומר הקדש. דסבר אדם מקדיש דבר שלא בא לעולם. ואין כן הלכה, אלא הלכה כר׳ יוחנן בן הסנדלר דאמר חולין, שאין אדם מקדיש דבר שלא בא לעולם:
הרי זו עושה ואוכלת – for they degreed support in place of the work of her hands/her labor (i.e., her wages), therefore she works and consumes according to the words of everyone.
המותר – he dedicated to the Temple the excess of his wife’s wages, what she does more than what is appropriate for her support and did not dedicate to the Temple her wages themselves.
ר' מאיר אומר הקדש – for he holds that a person who dedicates something [to the Temple] that did not ever exist, and this is not the Halakha, but rather, the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yohanan ben HaSandlar who stated that it is non-holy/unconsecrated, for a person does not dedicate/sanctify something that never existed.