Today's Mishnah Yomi
Oholos 5:3 - 5:4
The Mishnah Yomi for Friday, September 25, 2026 is Oholos 5:3 - 5:4
Mishnah 1
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אהלות פרק ה׳ משנה ג׳
Bartenura
מצלת על הכל. על כל מה שבעליה. שהיא חוצצת בפני הטומאה:
אינה מצלת אלא על האוכלים ועל המשקים ועל כלי חרס. בקדירה של עם הארץ מיירי. וטעמייהו דבית שמאי משום דכליו של עם הארץ טמאין הם אצל חבר, וכל כלי טמא אינו חוצץ בפני הטומאה. ולפי שעם הארץ מחזיק הכלים שלו בטהור, אמרינן ליה שהוא מציל על אוכלים ומשקין וכלי חרס שבעליה, דלנפשיה בלבד הוא דמטהרינן להו, שהרי החברים בדלים מהם וממגעם ובלאו הכי נמי כל מאכלם טמא. אבל שאר כלים שיש להם טהרה במקוה, אם תטהרם הרי הוא משאילם לחבר וישתמש בהם בטבילה לחודה בלא הזאה שלישי ושביעי:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Oholos Perek 5 Mishnah 4
אהלות פרק ה׳ משנה ד׳
Bartenura
לגין (a vessel smaller than a pitcher but larger than a cup/flask) – of wood or of metal that is placed in this upper chamber that the pot is placed on the mouth of its aperture in the roof looking to the ground floor.
הלגין טמא טומאת שבעה – that the pot does not protect over a wooden vessel or a metal vessel as we have stated.
והמשקים טהורים – that the pot protects over foods and liquids.
ואם פינה (if she emptied it) – these liquids to another vessel that is the same upper chamber, the other vessel defiles them, for all of the vessels that are in the upper chamber are impure except for earthenware vessels. But the first vessel that the liquids were in are not defiled even though it (i.e., the vessel) is impure with ritual impurity for seven days. For if you said so, if so, the pot that is in the aperture in the roof looking to the ground does not protect over liquids at all, and we state that it protects over food and liquids.
האשה והערבה טמאים (the woman and the trough are impure) – for the earthenware pot protects them.
והבצק טהור – for the pot protects over the foods. And especially all the while that she did not separate from it, but if she lifted up [her] two hands from it and returned and kneaded it, this defiles the dough.
לגין. של עץ או של מתכת שמונח בעליה זו שהקדירה מונחת על פי ארובה שלה:
הלגין טמא טומאת. שבעה. שאין הקדירה מצלת על כלי עץ וכלי מתכות כדאמרן:
והמשקים טהורים. שהקדירה מצלת על אוכלים ומשקים:
ואם פינה. המשקים הללו לכלי אחר שבאותה עליה, הכלי האחר מטמאן, שכל הכלים שבעליה טמאים, חוץ מכלי חרס. אבל הכלי הראשון שהיו המשקין בתוכו אינו מטמאן אע״פ שהוא טמא טומאת שבעה, שאם אמרת כן, א״כ אין הקדירה שבארובה מצלת על המשקין לעולם, ואנן אמרינן שהיא מצלת על אוכלין ומשקין:
האשה והעריבה טמאים. שאין הקדירה של חרס מצלת עליהן:
והבצק טהור. שהקדירה מצלת על האוכלים. ודוקא כל זמן שלא פירשה ממנה, אבל אם הגביהה שתי ידיה ממנה וחזרה ולשה, הרי זו מטמאה את הבצק:
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מצלת על הכל – [if affords protection] on everything that is in the upper chamber, for it interposes in front of the defilement.
אינה מצלת אלא על האוכלים ועל המשקים ועל כלי חרס – he (i.e., the School of Shammai) is speaking about the pot of those who are illiterate. And the reason of the School of Shammai is that the vessels of the illiterate/עם הארץ are impure in regard to a person who a חבר/member of the order for the observance of Levitical laws in daily intercourse, and every impure vessel does not interpose in front of the defilement. And because the illiterate holds his vessels as pure, we state to him that he protects over food and drink and earthenware vessels that are in the upper chamber, that for himself alone that we declare them pure, for those who are members of the order for the observance of Levitical laws in daily intercourse are separate/keep aloof from them and from their contact, for without this, all of their food would be impure. But the other vessels that have purification in a ritual bath/Mikveh, if they will purify them, he (the person who is illiterate) can lend them to a חבר and he would use them with immersion [in a Mikveh] alone, without sprinkling [of ashes] on the third and seventh days.