מקואות י׳:ו׳ - י׳:ז׳

אין מטבילין חמין בצונן – that food and liquid do not have ritual purity in a Mikveh, but rather, only the water that had been defiled only, because of contact and connection between liquids, but contact between liquids is only effective in cases of one [kind of liquid] mixed with something similar, warm with warm, fresh [water] with fresh [water] and bitter [water] with bitter [water], but one type mixed with another type, the contact between liquids is not effective and the waters were not purified.

מלא משקין – as for example, wine and oil and fruit juice and all liquids other than water.

כאילו לא טבל – because they interpose. And especially, that their appearance didn’t change, that they were not abolished in the water.

מלא מי רגלין רואין אותן כאילו הן מים – for urine is a kind of water, and when the waters of the Mikveh come in contact with them, a connection is made to them, and they do not interpose and the utensil is purified. But there are books that have the reading: "רואין אותן כאילו הם יין"/we see them as if they are wine, but if their appearance would change and they return to the appearance of water, they are nullified in the water and the utensil is purified. And like this reading is found in the Tosefta [Mikvaot, Chapter 7, Halakha 4].

מלא מי חטאת – water that had been sanctified in the ashes of the [Red] Heifer. And from them we sprinkle on those who are [ritually] impure through contact with the dead.

עד ירבו המים על מי חטאת – that most of the utensil will be empty in order that the waters of the Mikveh that enter the utensil will be greater than the waters of purification [from the Red Heifer] that would be within it. For if not, he still remains in his [ritual] defilement and they (i.e., the waters) are like the rest of the liquids that interpose between the utensil and the waters of the Mikveh.

כור – thirty Seah.

ואין בו אלא רביעית – waters of purification [from the Red Heifer], or the rest of the liquids.

כאילו לא טבל – for Rabbi Yossi holds that a quarter [LOG] of liquids or a quarter [LOG] of waters of purification [from the Red Heifer], invalidate ritual immersion, and interpose even within a large utensil, until he removes the quarter [LOG] of liquids or of the waters of purification [from the Red Heifer] and he returns and immerses them empty. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yossi.

כל האוכלים מצטרפין – [if] one consume impure foods from several kinds and there is in all of them like one-half of a furrow (i.e., a field of a square P’ras, declared unclean on account of crushed bones carried over it from a ploughed grave) which is two eggs [bulk] according to Rashi and an egg-and-a-half according to the words of Maimonides (see also Tractate Meilah, Chapter 4, Mishnah 5), they combine to invalidate his body from consuming heave-offering [if he is a Kohen]. And similarly, if he drank from several kinds of the seven liquids which are water, wine, olive oil, honey, milk, blood and dew, for these alone are called liquids. All of these combine one with the other to invalidate the body with one-quarter of a LOG, as it is written (Leviticus 11:34): “As to any food that may be eaten, it shall become unclean if it came in contact with water, or to any liquid that may be drunk, [it shall become unclean if it was inside any vessel],” it teaches on the food-stuffs that they all combine and on all the liquids that all of them combine.

שעשו בו שאר משקין – to invalidate the body.

כמים – but the rest of the liquids invalidate the Mikveh with three LOG like water. Alternatively, the rest of the liquids complete the measurement of the Mikveh for forty Seah like water, as it is written (Leviticus 11:36): “[However, a spring or cistern] in which water is collected [shall be clean],” but not a Mikveh of the rest of the liquids.