טהרות י׳:ג׳ - י׳:ד׳

כיון שנכנסו לרשות מערה – that they ritually immerse there [in the cavern], like narrow pits, lengthy ditches and spacious cavities/caverns.

דיו – and we are not concerned that perhaps they would not ritually immerse or that they would not immerse the vessels and they would say, “we ritually immersed and we ritually immersed [the vessels].”

צריך לעמוד עליהן. לפי שאין בקיאין בדין טבילה וחציצה (this section is not found in the printed editions of the Mishnah and is a reading of the Bartenura commentary on this Mishnah)

טהורים להם – as, for example, the vessels of another commoner who is not careful in the observance of the laws of Levitical uncleanness and tithing, that in their eyes these are ritually pure vessels because they are not warned/careful against the contact of a commoner. And Rabbi Shimon is according to his reasoning that we have explained above (in Mishnah 1 of this chapter). And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yossi.

הנותן מן הסלים ומן המשטיח של אדמה (he who puts in the press grapes collected in baskets or as such as were spread on the ground) – grapes that were cut from the beginning for consumption and were not fit to be susceptible to receive ritual defilement, for they (i.e., the Rabbis) did not decree other on the person who cut the grapes from the beginning to [bring them to] the vat for wine-pressing and afterwards changed his mind regarding them and took them from the baskets or from the ground that he had spread the grapes upon them and placed them in the vat for wine-pressing.

בית שמאי אומרים נותן בידים טהורות – since he came to placed them in the vat for wine-pressing, he is as if he cut them from the beginning [to bring them] to the vat for wine-pressing, and he needs to bring them to the vat for wine-pressing in ritual purity.

ואם נתן בידים טמאות טמאן – but even though mere hands are second-degree [of ritual impurity], and nothing that is second-degree [of ritual impurity] can make something third-degree [of ritual impurity] with non-consecrated produce, perhaps they thought that what is ritually immersed for heave-offering is like heave-offering itself, alternatively, we are dealing with hands that first-degree [of ritual impurity]. And this is the opinion of Rabbi Shimon ben Eleazar as it is brought in the second chapter of [Tractate] Hullin [folio 33b].

ובית הלל אומרים נותן לגת בידים טמאות ומפריש תרומתו בטהרוה – because they were not fitted for Levitical uncleanness since they were cut from the outset for consumption.

מן העביט ומן המשטיח של עלים (from the large basket, strapped on the carrier’s back, in which the grapes are carried during the vintage and/or from the grapes spread out on leaves) – the עביט is a vessel that they place the grapes in it that they cut to bring to the vat for wine-pressing. And the grapes spread out on leaves on the face of the ground, and now the matter is proven that the person who cuts these grapes from the outset, he cut them for the vat for wine-pressing and not for consumption, therefore, the School of Shammai and the School of Hillel are in agreement in this that one brings them with ritually pure hands, for this that [the School of] Hillel is silent in the first chapter of [Tractate] Shabbat (Mishnah 4) and agrees him with the person who cuts grapes for wine-pressing in the vat is fitted for Levitical uncleanness.