What about the offering of ketoret, incense? Understood to be the ultimate sacrifice, done last by the High Priest on Yom Kippur, isn't this offering even more powerful than the others? What does it forgive? The rabbis debate this question in great detail.
Related is the next conversation regarding items that are hekdesh, consecrated to the Temple. If an item is hekdesh and then becomes impure, it loses all value. Perhaps hekdesh items should be conditionally consecrated based on their use as sacrifice, etc. If that were the case, such items could be redeemed for money should they become useless in to the Temple. The rabbis discuss this an wonder if the Red Heifer might be categorized as 'conditionally hekdesh', as well.
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