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Zevachim 3:5-6

Zevachim 3:5

If one slaughters female sacrifices intending to eat the fetus or the placenta outside of its proper place or time, he does not render the sacrifice piggul. If one performs melikah (nipping the head) on pigeons in the Temple courtyard intending to eat their eggs outside, he does not render the sacrifice piggul. One is not liable to piggul, nosar or ritual impurity because of the milk of female sacrifices or the eggs of bird offerings.

Zevachim 3:6

If one slaughtered a sacrifice intending to leave its blood or its limbs until the next day, or to take them outside the Temple courtyard, Rabbi Yehuda declares the sacrifice invalid but the Sages say that it remains valid. If he slaughtered a sacrifice intending to sprinkle the blood on the ramp rather than on the base, or to sprinkle above what must be sprinkled below, or vice versa, or to sprinkle outside what must be sprinkled inside, or vice versa, or that ritually unclean people would eat it or offer it up, or that uncircumcised people would eat it or offer it up, or if he intended to break the bones of a Passover offering or to eat from it raw, or to mix a sacrifice's blood with blood from disqualified sacrifices – in all of these cases the sacrifice remains valid. This is because intention only disqualifies when it comes to eating or burning after the proper time or outside of the proper place and, in the case of Passover offerings and sin offering, performing the service under the wrong name.

Author: Rabbi Jack Abramowitz