Commentary for Pesachim 179:2

אבל בפסח לא משייר איניש במעות ודאי משייר איניש דמעיקרא כי מפריש להו אדעתא דהכי מפריש להו

and in accordance with Rabbi,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rabbi rules infra that if a man needs money e.g.. for clothes, he may register other people with him for his Passover-offering and spend his money so acquired on clothes. Thus he holds that an animal sanctified for a Passover offering is entirely his private property; consequently he could also render it forbidden (but for the verse) by making it a harlot's hire.');">³</span> I would have related it to sacrifices of lesser sanctity<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra p. 108, n. 2. Thus he gave the harlot an animal consecrated for a peace-offering.');">⁴</span>

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