Quoting%20commentary for Ketubot 118:2

מתקיף לה רב שישא בריה דרב אידי מי דמי התם בידו לפדותה הכא אין בידה לגרש עצמה הא לא דמיא אלא לאומר לחבירו שדה זו שמשכנתי לך לעשר שנים לכשאפדנה ממך תיקדש דקדשה

Shisha son of R. Idi raised a difficulty: Are these cases similar? There it is in his power to redeem it; but here she has no power to divorce herself. This is rather similar to the case of a man who said to his fellow, “This field which I have mortgaged to you for ten years shall be consecrated when I shall have redeemed it,” where it becomes consecrated.

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