Oholos 3:1 - 3:2

כל מטמאין באוהל – that are stated above at the beginning of chapter two [Mishnah 1].

שנחלקו – their measurements [were divided] in half.

לתוך הבית – that is within one tent.

רבי דוסא בן הרכינס מטהר – for he holds that they do not combine to make up according to the measurement.

הנוגע בכשני חצאי זיתים מן הנבילה – at the opening of the tent, and separates them from the carrion, to state to you, that just as that Rabbi Dosa holds that they don’t combine for defilement through the overshadowing of the tent, here also he holds that they don’t combine for defilement of contact and for carrying, whether regarding a corpse or whether regarding a carrion.

הנוגע בחצי זית ומאהיל על חצי זית (he who touches half an olive’s bulk and overshadows over half an olive’s bulk) – that the person who overshadows over corpse, is impure as if he was with the corpse in the tent. And in the Gemara [Tractate Hullin, chapter 9] in the chapter העור והרוטב/The Hide and the Broth [of the Meat], folio 125b, it maintains that the overshadowing of the tent in the first clause [of the Mishnah] are pressed ritual impurity (I.e., a corpse or part of a corpse located beneath a roof or a covering imparts ritual impurity only to objects beneath that covering; anything above the covering remains ritually pure if there is a handbreadth between the corpse and the roof or covering), for there isn’t between the defiling agent/defilement less than a handbreadth, and because of this the Sages declare it impure, for all of it is touching/contact. But the concluding clause [of the Mishnah] that stated: “But a person who is in contact with half an olive’s bulk and another thing overshadows him”/אבל הנוגע בכחצי זית ודבר אחר מאהיל עליו וכ' -that the Rabbis agree that it is pure, we are speaking of when there is an opening of a handbreadth between the defilement and between the tent. And in this the Rabbis agree that they do not combine, for touching and the tent are two categories, and those things that are from two categories do not combine. But Rabbi Dosa holds that even with pressed ritual impurity/טומאה רצוצה they don’t combine, and not even for contact [with one half of an olive’s bulk] and the contact of the tent [with one half of an olive’s bulk]. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Dosa.

אמר ר' מאיר אף בזו ר' דוסא מטהר וחכמים מטמאין – Rabbi Meir disputes with the first Tanna/teacher [of the Mishnah] who stated that when there is an opening between the defilement and the tent of a handbreadth, the Sages admit that it is pure, and that they don’t combine, but he himself said, that even in this the Rabbis dispute with Rabbi Dosa who state that the contact/touching and the tent are one category, hence they combine to make up the measurement and they defile But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Meir.

חוץ מן המגע עם המשא – as for example, that he touched half of the olive’s bulk and he moved a half an olive’s bulk.

והמשא עם האוהל- that he moved half an olive’s bulk and overshadowed with a tent over half an olive’s bulk.

משם אחד – as for example, touching and touching, carrying and carrying, tent and tent.

מלא תרווד רקב (ladleful of corpse mold) – that we stated above at the beginning of Chapter Two [Mishnah 1] that it defiles in a tent.

שנתפזר לתוך הבית – and it was combined with whatever an amount of dust.

ור' שמעון מטהר – he holds that its end is like its beginning, that just as at its outset if the corpse is buried in burial shrouds or in a wooden casket/bier, it has no mass of earth from a grave containing parts of a decayed human body/רקב, for we require that there will be nothing folded/rolled with him, even its end, after it had become became a mass of earth from a grave containing parts of a decayed human bod, if something else combined with hi it doesn’t defile. But the Halakah is not according to Rabbi Shimon.

אם מתכבסת הכסות ויוצא ממנה רביעית דם – and how do we measure it? He brings water in a measure and washes it, and he brings other water according to that measure and places in it a quarter [of a LOG] of blood. If their appearance is equivalent, this is defilement, but if not it is ritually pure.