Keilim 17:4 - 17:5

הרמונים שאמרו – that which is taught at the beginning of our chapter, “All Utensils of householders – their measure [is] with pomegranates” (Chapter 17, Mishnah 1), when there would be three pomegranates fastened with each other, and one came out through the path of an incision, this is the measure of someone removing a pomegranate.

כדי שיטול ויהלך (sufficient in order that one may take and shake) – that through the waving/shaking of taking it and shaking it – the pomegranate speedily leaves through the incision.

ובקופה כדי שיפשיל לאחוריו – that through hanging it behind him, he quickens the [pomegranate’s] leaving.

שאינן יכולים לקבל רמונים – that they are small.

כגון הרובע – a quarter of a Kab.

שיעורן ברובן – since the majority was reduced/lowered, it is ritually pure.

נפרצו (if they were broken through) they were lessened and missing.

נגממו (if they are worn off – i.e., the sides of the vessel after becoming too thin) – at theirat their borders/rims.

שיעורן כמה שהן – if there remains In them to receive/retain any amount, they are ritually impure. But the Halakha is according to Rabbi Shimon.

הרמון שאמרו – that a vessel that is perforated with the removal of a pomegranate is ritually pure.

ולמה הוזכרו רמוני בדאן – because we don’t estimate through them, other than through an intermediate-sized pomegranate.

שיהו מקדשים בהם – that if one of the pomegranates of Baddan are Orlah/fruit that grows during the first three years after a tree was planted or of food crops in a vineyard (i.e., it is forbidden to plant or maintain other crops in a vineyard – rendering the entire vineyard forbidden) that is mixed up/combined with one-thousand pomegranates that are permitted, all of them are sanctified/dedicated and forbidden, which is not the case with the pomegranates of other places.

Baddan is the name of a place.

לשער בו את הכלים (to measure utensils with them) – for he holds that a person who removes a pomegranate of vessels, the pomegranates of Baddan measure them.

אמר ר' יהודה לא הוזכרו רמוני בדאין וכו' – but in regard to sanctification, there is no distinction between the pomegranates of Baddan and the rest of the pomegranates, for all are sanctified. For Rabbi Yehuda holds that everything whose manner is to be counted is sanctified. In the Chapter of the Mixtures (Chapter 8 of Tractate Zevakhim), and at the beginning of the Tractate Betzah (3a).

בדאן וגבע – two places of Cutheans, and the pomegranates and leeks of these places [from Rimon and Hatzir] of the rest of the places. But the Cutheans definitely do not tithe what they sell to others, and they are not anxious regarding [the Biblical verse in Leviticus 19:16): “place a stumbling block before the blind,” for even though for themselves they tithe, therefore, they definitely tithe in every place (previously certainly untithed).

חצירי – leeks are called PURUSH in the foreign tongue, like (Numbers 11:5): “the leeks and the onions.”