Negaim 10:3 - 10:4

הצומח – black hair that grew in the bald, blanched spot on the head.

מציל מיד שער צהוב ומיד פשיון – that if he had been declared a certified leper through golden hair or with spreading, and two black hairs grew, he is pure.

בין מכונס – that both of them are in one place.

בין מפוזר – one to the east of the plague and one to the west [of the plague].

והמשואר – that the two black hairs preceded those for the bald, blanched spot on the head, as for example, if the hair of his head or his beard had been torn loose like a split [Cilician] bean, there remained within the bald, blanched spot two black hairs.

מבוצר (of the hair in the flesh affected by the eruption – are cut off) – if they are cut off in the middle of the bald, blanched spot on the head, they protect. But if they stand from the side, they do not protect.

עד שיהא רחוק מן הקמה – until there would be these two hairs [of the same color] far from the hairs that surround the bald, blanched spot on the head (or beard) like the measure of two hairs. But the hairs that are around the bald, blanched spot [on the head] are called קמה/standing, and when these hairs are two hairs distant from the standing hairs, they are considered like they are an eruption surrounded with sound flesh within the plague.

אחת צהובה ואחת שחורה – with the golden [hair] that preceded the bald, blanched spot, there wasn’t a token/sign of defilement, it is necessary for him (i.e., the Tanna/teacher of the Mishnah) to state that they don’t combine with the black hair to protect from the golden hair and from the spreading. But our anonymous Mishnah is according to Rabbi Eliezer ben Yaakov who stated nearby ahead (see the next Mishnah), that the golden hair that preceded the bald, blanched spot on the head does not defile and it does not protect.

רבי יהודה מטמא – as it is taught in the Mishnah above (i.e., Mishnah 2 of this chapter) that Rabbi Yehuda defiles already turned (i.e., its color) or not turned.

ר' אליעזר בן יעקב אומר לא מטמא ולא מציל – Rabbi Eliezer ben Yaakov and Rabbi Shimon explain the matter of the first Tanna/teacher (in the second Mishnah) that they brought it pure, Rabbi Eliezer ben Yaakov holds that it is pure, for the first Tanna/teacher to state that it doesn’t defile, but it doesn’t protect. But Rabbi Shimon holds that it is pure and protects as he states, but above, we made the legal decision that the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yehuda.