Reference for Kiddushin 109:7

איתמר נמי אמר ר' חמא בר' עקיבא אמר רבי יוסי בר' חנינא אומר היה ר"מ הקדש במזיד מתחלל בשוגג אין מתחלל אחד קדשי קדשים ואחד קדשים קלים קל וחומר קדשי קדשים מתחללים קדשים קלים לא כל שכן

[Only] in the case of higher sanctity;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., anything which is entirely used in the service of the Temple. E.g., an article consecrated for Temple repair, and a sacrifice of the higher sanctity, which belonged entirely to God, none of it being eaten by its owner.');">¹³</span> do you know him [to hold this view] in respect to lower sanctity?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And the Mishnah on a strayed animal refers to such, since it may be a peace-offering, which is of the lower sanctity.');">¹⁴</span> - Said one of the Rabbis to him [the questioner], R'Jacob by name, It follows a fortiori: If object of the higher sanctity can be secularised, surely those of the lower sanctity can be! It was stated likewise. R'Hama B''Ukba<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cur. ed.: Akiba; but a R. Hama b. R. Akiba is unknown in the Talmud.');">¹⁵</span> said in R'Jose son of R'Hanina's name: R'Meir used to assert, Hekdesh is secularised by deliberate conversion, but is not secularised by unwitting conversion; this applies to objects of both higher and lower sanctity, a fortiori: if objects of higher sanctity can be secularised, surely those of lower sanctity can be.

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