תרומות ח׳:ח׳ - ח׳:ט׳

ספק טומאה – as, for example, two jugs in the private domain, and a reptile touched one of them, and it is not known to which of them, and both of them are suspended.

במקום התורפה – a place that is ownerless and it stands to suffer loss there.

יניחנה במקום המוצנע – for he is still careful on its being guarded, as it is written (Numbers 18:8): “[I hereby give you] charge of all My gifts, [all the sacred donations of the Israelites],” with two heave-offerings the Biblical verse speaks – one is pure heave-offering and the other is suspended Terumah and both of them require guarding.

ר' יהושע אומר וכו' – for he holds that the word "תרומתי" – is written without the [letter] “Vav”, and there is the traditional Scriptural text (i.e., letters without vowels) is authoritative in Biblical interpretation.

אל יחדש בה דבר – and there is no need to guard it, and it is even prohibited to cause the riual defilement, and he Halakha is according to Rabban Gamaliel.

בגת העליונה – place where they store it away.

והתחתונה – a pit on the inside of the vat where the wine goes into it.

טמאה – it has ritually impure unconsecrated produce, and it is appropriate for it during the days of its ritual defilement, or for someone who does not consume unconsecrated produce in ritual purity, and if the heave-offering/Terumah falls into it, he should have something impure that is forbidden to all non-priests, but even to Kohanim, it is not appropriate.

ואם יכולים להציל ממנה רביעית – if he able to search around behind the utensils and to save from it a fourth [of a LOG; a LOG= six eggs) in ritual purity prior to its all descending and becoming defiled.

יציל – he should go around behind he utensils and save it, and even though it is within , he should go round behind the utensils that it would descend from the heave-offering to the unconsecraed produce that is in the lower [vats] and he will lose the heave-offering, he should no defile the heave offering with hands to save the heave-offering, since he is able to save from it one-quarter of a LOG in ritual purity which is an important thing.

ואם לאו – that he should not find a totally pure utensil, and eventually, all of it goes o riual impurity, and in this they dispute, for Rabbi Yehoshua holds that he should defile it by hand, to save the heave-offering as it is taught at the end [of this chapter, Mishnah 11) “but as regards both of these cases (Mishnayot 9-10), Rabbi Yehoshua stated, etc. But Rabbi Eliezer holds that even though that ultimately, it would all go to become unclean, he should not make it unclean by hand to save the Hullin, but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eliezer.