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daf bit: Menachot 78
When offerings of animals are accompanied by meal-offerings (typically
in the form of bread), it is the
act of slaughtering the animal that consecrates the bread. A mishna
on today's daf teaches that if one slaughters the animal intending to
eat it at the wrong time or place, which invalidates the animal portion
of the offering, then the bread is still consecrated (and so you can't
use it for something else). If, on the other hand, he slaughters the
animal and it turns out to have a disqualifying blemish, then the bread
is not consecrated (and I'm not sure what happens to it). The g'mara
elucidates the following principle: if whatever disqualified the animal
occurred before it was slaughtered, the bread brought with it is not
consecrated; if the disqualifying condition occurs after the slaughter,
then the bread remains consecrated. (78b)
Conclusion: wrong intentions, while wrong, do not have effects as widespread as wrong actions/conditions; the wrong intention doesn't count as something happening to the animal beforehand.