מקואות ו׳:ד׳ - ו׳:ה׳

שהיו בהן שלשה לוגין מים – absorbed and attached to them (i.e., the sponge and/or the bucket), but they are not apparent to the eye, therefore, the Rabbis did not decree that this is not called “that they fell.”

השידה והתיבה (the safe/box and the chest) – large utensils made of wood and they are placed within a Kosher mikveh.

אלא אם כן היו נקובים כשפופרת הנוד – it is similar to a cavity/pit that we stated above (see Tractate Mikvaot, Chapter 6, Mishnah 1) that it needs to be perforated like the tube (mouth-piece) of a leather bottle (i.e., stopper of a waterskin).

בכלי גדול – as for example, where the surface is nine handbreadths or more, for its minority is for four handbreadths, it is sufficient with a perforation of four handbreadths. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

שק או קופה (sack or a basket) – a basket made from sprouts/offshoots of a peeled willows.

מטבילין בהן כמו שהן – if they are in the ocean. But they don’t require a perforation like the tube (mouthpiece) of a leather bottle (i.e., stopper of a waterskin), for all of them are filled with holes and the water in them is voided as regards the water of the Mikveh.

אינן פוסלין את המקוה – because of drawn water.

ומעלין אותן כדרכן (and bring them out in the ordinary way) – as for example, in a Mikveh that has in it forty Seah defined exactly as we state further on (see Tractate Mikvaot, Chapter 7, Mishnah 6) regarding a cushion or mattress of leather, since he lifted up their rims/lips from the water, the water within them is [considered] drawn [water]. How should he do it? Immerse them and raise them through their rims at the bottom of the vessel, for we are not concerned about a sack or a basket, for the water that is within them is not considered drawn water to invalidate the Mikveh.