Chagigah 3:1 - 3:2

חומר בקודש. שמטבילין כלי בתוך כלי – when both of them are ritually impure.

אבל לא לקודש – since we say that the heaviness of the inner utensil which weighs upon the outside which is placed within it, leaves a space before the defilement (tit must say, “before the water, and so it is in Rashi and in the Gemara – Tractate Hagigah 21a), for Ritual immersion is not effective for either one (i.e., Terumah/Priest’s due or Holy things).

אחוריים ותוך ובית הצביטה לתרומה – a utensil that is appropriate to use inside it and at its back/outside and its handle. Each and every usage with it is considered a utensil in and of itself with regard to Terumah/priest’s due, for if one part became defiled, the other part did not become defiled. And we are speaking of Rabbinic defilements, for if the back/outside became defiled win ritually impure liquids, the inside is not defiled, nor the handle, but if the handle was defiled, the back and insides were not defiled. And the explanation of בית הצביטה – is something you grab hold of, such as the language of (Ruth 2:14): “He handed her roast grain, [and she ate her fill and had some left over].” But there are those who have the reading "בית הצביעה" – from the language for a finger – that they for the utensil a handle to place one’s finger inside it. When he drinks, in order that he not place hand inside the utensil proper.

אבל לא לקודש – for if one of them became ritually defiled in Rabbinic defilements, it is entirely impure for Holy things.

הנושא את המדרס – [A person who comes in contact with] the shoe of the individual with a flux.

נושא את התרומה – [he can carry priest’s due] if he wants in an earthen wine-jug, which does not touch its airspace.

אבל לא את הקודש – because of an incident that had taken place with an individual who had been carrying a jug of wine of drink-offerings, and his sandal-strap of his shoe broke that had Levitical uncleanness arising from an individual with a flux’s immediate contact by treading/leaning against, etc., and he took it in his hand and as a result, it fell into the atmosphere of the jug, and the Holy thing was ritually defiled; at that hour they said that whomever carries Levitical uncleanness arising from an individual with a flux’s immediate contact by treading/leaning against, should not carry any Holy thing, and because I was an incident that happened with something that was considered a Holy thing. Therefore, they did not make a decree other than with something that was Holy and not priest’s due.

לא כמדת הקדש – with the interposition (of an intervening object) of his ritual immersions, is the measure of the priest’s due.

שבקדש – if there is a ritually impure cloth and he comes to ritually immerse it, if it is tied, he releases the knot, because it is similar to an interposition [of an intervening object].

ומנגב – if it is moist, he dries it first for the fatty, oily substance that is upon it is like an interposition [of an intervening object] of his ritual immersion.

ובתרומה – if he desires, he can tie it up and afterwards he immerses it while it is tied and it has no effect.

כלים הנגמרים בטהרה – that were completed by a Haver/a member of the order for the observance of Levitical laws in daily intercourse and he was careful with them when they came close to being completed, for they would susceptible to receive ritual defilement; and despite this, they require ritual immersion for Holy Things, for we suspect lest spittle flew off the mouth of an ignoramus on the utensil at the time that the Haver was holding it. But even if at that time,, the utensil was not completely finished, and would not receive defilement lest it was after it had been completed, and it was worthy of receiving defilement, still the spittle was moist and it defiles as is taught in the Mishnah of Tractate Niddah (Chapter 7, Mishnah 1) that flux and spittle defile when moist.

הכלי מצרף מה שבתוכו – there many pieces of food in one utensil, and someone who had immersed but must wait for sunset to be perfectly clean/Tevul Yom came in contact with it, who defiles the Terumah with one of them, the utensil combines them so that all of them are considered like one piece and all if is defiled, as it is written (Numbers 7:14 and eleven other examples throughout the chapter): “One gold ladle of ten shekels [filled with incense].” The Biblical verse makes it like everything that is in the ladle.

אבל לא לתרומה – but only that piece which touched it is impure, while the rest are pure.

הרביעי בקודש פסול – but does not defile.

אם נטמאת אחת מידיו – through the Rabbinic defilements such as with impure food-stuffs and liquids and similar things that do not defile anything other than the hands, but not the body.

ובקדש מטביל את שתיהן – it is dealing when it remains moist in the defiled hand at the time that it was defiled. But if it there was no moistness in the impure hand, the other hand does not become defiled until it touches it.