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Mishnayos Oholos Perek 9 Mishnah 11

אהלות פרק ט׳ משנה י"א

11

If it was lying on its side in the open air: If an olive-sized [portion] of a corpse was placed below it or above it, everything directly below or above the olive-sized [portion] becomes unclean; but everything that is not directly below or above, and what is within [the hive] remains clean. [If the uncleanness is] within [the hive] everything becomes unclean.

הָיְתָה מֻטָּה עַל צִדָּהּ בָּאֲוִיר וְכַזַּיִת מִן הַמֵּת נָתוּן תַּחְתֶּיהָ אוֹ עַל גַּבָּהּ, כֹּל שֶׁהוּא כְנֶגֶד הַזַּיִת, תַּחְתֶּיהָ וְגַבָּהּ, טָמֵא. וְכֹל שֶׁאֵינוֹ כְנֶגֶד הַזַּיִת, תּוֹכָהּ, טָהוֹר. בְּתוֹכָהּ, הַכֹּל טָמֵא:

י"א
Bartenura

באויר – in the courtyard or in the garden, where there isn’t a tent there. And its law is like of the hive that is in the midst of the doorway and its mouth is outside, as it is taught in the Mishnah at the beginning of the chapter (see Mishnah 1). And similarly, also if it is above the ground by a handbreadth, like it is above the ground a handbreadth of here at the beginning of the chapter (see Mishnah 2). But that of here, it doesn’t belong to mention a house, for we are dealing with a case where one is standing underneath the airspace.

באויר. בחצר או בגינה שאין שם אוהל, ודינה כדין כוורת שהיא לתוך הפתח ופיה לחוץ כדתנן בריש פרקין. וכן נמי גבוהה טפח דהכא כגבוהה טפח דריש פרקין, אלא דכאן אין שייך להזכיר בית, דבעומדת תחת האויר עסקינן: