Meilah 3:2-3

Meilah 3:2

If a person put aside money to purchase the offerings of a nazir, one may not benefit from those funds but if one did, it is not subject to misappropriation because they could all be brought as peace offerings. Let’s say that he put aside the money and subsequently died. If he didn’t specify which funds are for which offering, then the money goes to buy freewill offerings; if he specified, then the money designated for the sin offering is thrown into the Dead Sea (i.e., destroyed) – it may not be used but it is also not subject to misappropriation. The money designated for a burnt offering is used to bring a burnt offering and is subject to misappropriation. The money designated for a peace offering is used to bring a peace offering; it must be eaten in one day (in the manner of a nazir’s peace offering) but it doesn’t require the loaves brought by a nazir.

Meilah 3:3

Rabbi Yishmael says that the laws pertaining to a sacrifice’s blood are lenient at the beginning and stringent at the end while the laws of libations are stringent at the beginning and lenient at the end. At the beginning, blood is not subject to misappropriation but it is subject after it flows to the Kidron valley. Libations are subject to misappropriation at the beginning but not after they have flowed into the pit in the altar’s base.