Oholos 6:6 - 6:7

בית המשמש את הכותל – the caves that are under the street when they dig a sepulchral chamber for a corpse from this side and a sepulchral chamber for a corpse from the other side, it is found that the wall is made of its own, and because of this, we call it a house which serves the wall that through the digging, the wall was made, but building that is upon the ground, the wall causes the house that it will be a house, and because of this, we call it [see above, Mishnah 3], “a wall that serves the house”

טומאה בבתים – in the sepulchral chambers and in the cavities/caves.

ועליהן כקליפת השום טהורין – because they form a partition to the defilement and their law is not like the law of a wall that is between two houses (see Mishnah 4).

טומאה בוקעת ועולה בוקעת ויורדת – and all that is juxtaposed to the defilement above and/or below is impure according to the law of all covered defilement, but from the sides it is pure, and the same law applies to the pillar that is in the house.

פרח - a thing that protrudes and is wide that comes out at the top of a column/pillar or in its middle.

כלים שתחת הפרח טהורים – here we are speaking of a column that stands in the public domain or in a garden and the defilement is underneath it, and the “capital” protrudes from the column outward a handbreadth and overshadows over the vessels that are under it.

טהורים – for the defilement bursts forth and ascends, but all that is on the sides is pure.

רבי יוחנן בן נורי מטמא – for the “capital” is like the column/pillar, and when the defilement bursts forth, it returns on all the vessels that the “capital” overshadows upon them. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yohanan ben Nuri.

הטומאה והכלים שתחת הפרח – as for example, that the “capital” overshadows on the defilement and on the vessels.

פותח טפח – that the “capital” protrudes outside pf the column a handbreadth.

פרדסקים (closet, chests in the wall) – empty pillars that are placed I the wall of the house and in them are many windows/apertures and they have doors, and the defilement is under those pillars.

נפתח אחד מהן הבית טמא – that the defilement bursts through within and goes out to the house, And even the defilement from the half of the wall and outward is not judged to be like the house. Nevertheless, the house is impure.

ורואין את הפרדסקין כאילו הן אוטם – that is to say, if the door is locked and it is not opened, we view it as if there is no cavity there at all, but if the defilement is underneath them, the wall is judged half by half, like all of these that are taught about in the Mishnah above (i.e., in the previous Mishnayot of this chapter), from its middle and inwards, the house is impure; from its middle and outward, the house is pure.