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The Torah teaches that tainted money cannot be used in the Temple. Thus, neither an animal given as payment to a prostitute for her services (etnan zona), nor money paid for purchase of a dog (mekhir kelev) can be used to bring a sacrifice in the Temple (see Sefer Devarim 23:19).
The Gemara brings a baraita that teaches that if payment was made to the prostitute, but he did not make use of her services, or if they engaged in relations but he did not pay her – in both of these cases the money could be used in the Temple. Since this teaching is difficult to understand, the Gemara restates the law – if there was a time lapse between when the money was given and when the act of prostitution took place, e.g., if payment was made beforehand, then the money can be used, assuming that she immediately consecrated it (for otherwise when the act of prostitution takes place, the payment would be forbidden retroactively).
We examine the Torah view of prostitution and how it evolved overt time as well as the archetypal theory of the whore in Jungian theory.