Halakhah for Meilah 19:16

וכל שאין לו מתירין כיון שקידש בכלי חייבין עליו משום נותר וטמא ופיגול אין בה:

Because one may not at the outset set aside [holy things] for destruction. <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>THE LAW OF SACRILEGE APPLIES TO THE HANDFUL [OF A MEAL-OFFERING], THE FRANKINCENSE, THE INCENSE, THE MEAL-OFFERING OF A PRIEST,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. VI, 16.');">¹²</span> THE MEAL-OFFERING OF THE ANOINTED HIGH PRIEST<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. IV, 3ff and Hor. III, 4.');">¹³</span> AND THE MEALOFFERING THAT IS ACCOMPANIED BY A LIBATION<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., one that is offered with a freewill peace-offering.');">¹⁴</span> FROM THE MOMENT OF THEIR DEDICATION. ONCE THEY HAVE BECOME SACRED BY BEING PUT IN THE VESSEL [OF MINISTRY], THEY BECOME SUSCEPTIBLE FOR UNFITNESS THROUGH CONTACT WITH A TEBUL YOM OR 'ONE WHO STILL REQUIRES ATONEMENT', OR BY REMAINING OVERNIGHT, AND THEY ARE SUBJECT TO [THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAWS OF] NOTHAR AND DEFILEMENT, BUT [THE LAW OF] PIGGUL DOES NOT APPLY TO THEM. THIS IS THE GENERAL RULE: WHATSOEVER HAS THAT WHICH RENDERS IT PERMISSIBLE [FOR THE ALTAR OR FOR THE USE OF THE PRlests]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So as to make it 'acceptable' (v. Lev. XIX, 7) . E.g., the flesh of sin-offerings and sacrificial portions of peace-offerings where the sprinkling of the blood renders these permissible respectively to the priest or for the altar.');">¹⁵</span> IS NOT SUBJECT TO [THE LAWS OF] PIGGUL, NOTHAR AND DEFILEMENT UNTIL THAT ACT HAS BEEN PERFORMED. AND WHATSOEVER HAS NOT THAT WHICH RENDERS IT PERMISSIBLE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., the handful and frankincense and other offerings enumerated in our Mishnah, which require no other things to make the offering fit for the altar.');">¹⁶</span> BECOMES SUBJECT [TO THE LAWS OF] NOTHAR AND DEFILEMENT AS SOON AS IT HAS BECOME SACRED BY BEING PUT IN THE VESSEL [OF MINISTRY], BUT [THE LAW OF] PIGGUL DOES NOT APPLY TO IT.

Sefer HaChinukh