Zevachim 32: When a Mistake is Made, Correct it

Our Mishna continues: 

• in a case where blood is collected with the intent to offer it beyond its designated time or outside of its designated area, 
• if there is blood of the soul that remains in the animal, the priest fit for Temple service should again collect the blood and sprinkle it on the altar  
• If that priest collected the blood in a vessel and gave the vessel to an unfit priest, it should be returned to the fit priest 
• If the priest collected the blood in a vessel in his right hand and moved it to his left hand, he should return it to his right hand 
• If the priest collected the blood in a sacred vessel and placed it in a non-sacred vessel, he should return the blood to a sacred vessel 
• If the blood spilled from the vessel onto the floor and he gathered it from the floor, it is valid 
• If an unfit person placed the blood on the ramp or the wall of the altar that is not opposite the base of the altar 
• or if he placed the blood above the red line,
•  or if he placed the blood outside the sanctuary, 
• or if the wrong blood is placed inside of the sanctuary, 
• or if there is the blood of the soul that remains in the animal, 
• the priest fit for Temple service should again collect the blood and sprinkle it on the altar.

The Gemara begins to discuss this Mishna.  The rabbis question why we would interpret that anyone, even a woman, for example, would be fit to slaughter an animal.  Should this be only after the fact?  The rabbis wonder whether 'anyone' must be ritually pure.  

The Gemara considers one who touches a consecrated item.  A ritually unfit person who puts one of his hands into the space of the Temple courtyard is punished severely.  He is compared with a woman who is ritually unfit because of her contact with menstrual blood.  Does she not impart ritual impurity onto the items she touches?  

The rabbis consider cases where people are not yet ritually pure but only because they have not yet finished the day.  These are cases of 'in-between' status, and the rabbis try to create halacha that applies to these difficult cases. However, we learn that these cases do not match the cases that we have been studying.