מועד קטן א׳:י׳ - ב׳:א׳

ולמפרסת – a walk before the attic that those who live above walk in it and go down through a ladder to the courtyard.

ושפין את הסדקין – of the roofs that are not slanted, we grind them with plaster and when there are cracks in the plaster and the leaks in the roof go down in the house and there is loss, we smooth them, plaster them.

מעגלה – a round piece of wood whereby we smooth out the roofs.

במלחצים – a wide artisan’s implement of copper like a spoon, which has a handle.

הציר – the foot of the door that surrounds in the cavity of the threshold/lower door-sill of he opening.

צינור – the cavity that is in the threshold/lower door-sill.

והקורה – the actual beams of the house that were broken even prior to Yom Tov.

ובלבד שלא יכוין מלאכתו במועד – that he should not say, “I will wait until the Festival when I don’t have other work and I will do this.”

כבשים – such as fish and vegetables that are pickled with salt and vinegar.

שיכול לאכלן במועד – that they pickle quickly and are appropriate to eat immediately.

מי שהפך – It is the manner of people that they turn their olives in the vat or pit where olives are packed until they form a viscid mass where they are piled up and when one wants to bring them into the building containing the tank [and all the implements] for pressing olives, and if he does not bring them into the press to grind them after he has turned them over, they become lost.

וארעו אבל – who is prohibited to do work.

או שהטעתו פועלים – that did not come to work and the Festival arrived.

טוען – upon the olives a beam of the olive press for the first time and sweep them out, ion order that a bit of the oil flows a bit so that they will not loose it, but not during the second time because they will not lose any more, and from here we learn that things that are permitted during the Festival (i.e., on the Intermediate Days of the Festival/Hol HaMoed), it is forbidden for a mourner to do them with his hand during his days of mourning, for since it (i.e., the Mishnah) teaches “an occasion for mourning befell him,” and on account of the mourning he delays until the Festival, he applies the pressing beam [for the first time] for the olives during the Festival, but during the days of his mourning, he would be prohibited to press with his hand even the first beat, but others press for him.

זולף – he pours the olives on the back of the olive press, and every matter that he pours is called זילוף/sprinkling.

וגומר – pressing them (olives) and wine/grape pressing in the olive press.

וגף – close the lip of the barrels. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yosi.