Shevuot 11A

דקדושת דמים הוא.

as it has only sanctity that inheres in its value. By contrast, animal offerings have inherent sanctity, which cannot be removed.

אלא מעתה, לא תפסל בטבול יום! אלמה תניא: נתנה במכתשת ⁠– נפסלת בטבול יום?

Rabba challenges Rav Ḥisda’s claim about incense: If that is so, it should not become disqualified through contact with one who was ritually impure who immersed that day but is still not regarded as fully pure until nightfall, as only items with inherent sanctity are disqualified in such a way. Why, then, is it taught in a baraita with regard to the incense: Once the priest has placed it in a mortar to grind it, it can be disqualified through contact with one who immersed that day?

וכי תימא כל קדושת דמים מיפסלי בטבול יום; והתנן: המנחות, מועלין בהן משהוקדשו; קדשו בכלי ⁠– הוכשרו ליפסל בטבול יום ובמחוסר כפורים ובלינה.

Rabba deflects a possible challenge: And if you would say to defend your opinion that all items that have sanctity that inheres in their value are also disqualified through contact with one who immersed that day, that is not so. He explains: But didn’t we learn in a Mishnah (Me’ila 9a): With regard to the ingredients of the meal-offerings, one is liable for misusing them from when they are consecrated with sanctity that inheres in their value by the owner verbally dedicating them to the Temple? Once they are further consecrated with inherent sanctity by being placed in a service vessel, they become fit to be disqualified both through contact with one who immersed that day, and through contact with one who has not yet brought an atonement offering to complete the purification process, and through being left overnight.

קדשו בכלי אין, לא קדשו בכלי לא!

Rabba explains the proof: From this Mishnah it is apparent that if the ingredients of the meal-offerings were consecrated with inherent sanctity by being placed in a service vessel, then, yes, they can be disqualified through contact with one who immersed that day, but if they were not consecrated by being placed in a service vessel, then they will not be disqualified through contact with one who immersed that day, as they have only sanctity that inheres in their value.