Oholos 8:5 - 8:6

ירקות שמנו – those that are taught in the Mishnah at the beginning of this chapter (Mishnah 1), The lily with the aromatic root/אירוס, and the ivy and the vegetables of ass-herbs and Greek gourd. And these are when attached, for if they are detached, if they became susceptible to receive ritual impurity, they don’t interpose, for something that is susceptible to receive ritual impurity does not interpose in the face of defilement. But if they were among those that were not susceptible, that is pure foods.

כפת הברד (hailstones) – a piece of the hail. It is the language of (Psalms 147:17): “He tosses down hail like crumbs.” Alternatively, hail that is made like an arch.

והכפור(frost) – water that flows/runs and comes down when it is frozen.

גליד – the frozen water of rivers (i.e., ice).

והמלח – all of these they don’t bring and they don’t interpose. Because they melt and do not endure.

דולג (which hops/skips) – animals and wild life, and jump at humans. But there are those who say, that hopping and jumping – both of them refer to humans, but rather hopping where his one foot is placed on the ground and he hops with the second; and jumps, with both feet.

וטלית המפנפת (a sheet suspended as a banner) – that when the wind waves it and it stands in the air like an arched compartment.

כבש את האבן על גבי הטלית (presses the stone on top of the cloak) – that there was a stone placed on one end of the cloak and the wind blew the second end and it became like a kind of tent.

מביאה את הטומאה – if it overshadowed over the corpse or on vessels, it brings the defilement o the vessels.

הבית שבספינה – as for example, that the house at the top of a ship and it overshadows on the vessels that are on the ship and on the corpse that is in the sea at the time that it is travelling. Another explanation, the house that is on the ship and it is not able to withstand the wind that is found, and even if it overshadowed on the corpse and the vessels that are on the ship do not bring the defilement, and it is not considered a tent. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yossi.

בשני חצאי זיתים – half an olive’s bulk in this one, and half in that one.

הבית טמא – that a tightly-fitting cover does not protect on the defilement that is under it so that the house would defile the house, but even though that they are in two jars, for since both of them are in the house they combine to the measurement to defile the house. But the jars are ritually pure, for the defilement of one-half an olive’s bulk that is in its companion jar enters into it, sine it is surrounded with a tight-fitting cover.

וכן שני חדרים שהן פתוחים לבית – and their doors are locked, and there is a half-olive’s bulk in this room and a half-olive’s bulk in that room, the house is impure, for ultimately the defilement exits, but the rooms are ritually pure, for there is no pay for the defilement to enter in.