Commentary for Menachot 8:11

מת והיו לו מעות סתומין יפלו לנדבה מפורשין דמי חטאת יוליך לים המלח לא נהנין ולא מועלין דמי עולה יביא בהן עולה ומועלין בהן

if it was apportioned, the price of the sin-offering must be cast into the Dead Sea<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., it must be disposed of so that no benefit whatsoever be derived from it by anybody, this being in accordance with the established law that a sin-offering whose owner had died must be left to die.');">¹²</span> - no use may be made of it; yet [if one did] there would be no infringement of the law of sacrilege;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the money is to be destroyed it cannot be said to be consecrated property and therefore cannot be subject to the law of sacrilege; cf. Me'il, 3a.');">¹³</span>

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