Negaim 8:4 - 8:5

שבפריחתן טיהרו טמא – that through their blossoming, they have purified the defiled person. When they have reappeared and have been uncovered/revealed after that, he returns to his defilement.

שבחזירתם טמאו טהור – that through their return that they returned and were uncovered/revealed. They defiled the pure person, if they returned and were covered that the plague spread upon them, he is pure, bur if they returned and were uncovered afterwards, he is impure. And it is necessary to inform us that even many times, as it is taught [in this Mishnah], even one hundred times.

כל הראוי לטמא בנגע הבהרת (all who are susceptible to be defiled through the plague of the bright white spot) – such as the skin of the flesh.

מעכב את הפריחה (hinders the blossoming [over the entire body which marks the person as clean])- if there remained from it whatever the amount that did not blossom in it, it hinders/delays his purification.

וכל שאינו ראוי ליטמא בנגע הבהרת – as for example, the head and the beard, and all of these that are considered together with them.

אין מעכבין את הפריחה – for even though the plague did not blossom upon them, since it blossomed in the rest of the body, he is ritually pure. And the tips of the limbs are not considered for they hinder the blossoming, for they are susceptible to become defiled through the plague of the bright white spot in the skin, for the plague spreads in them.

ונעשו צרבת טהורים (and they formed a scab, they are pure) – even though that now when the head and/or the beard became bald they became susceptible to be defiled through the plague of the bright white spot on the skin, and similarly, boils and burns and the festering blister formed a scab, they are like the skin of the flesh, since at the time of the blossoming, they were not susceptible, they are not hindered and are pure.

אע"פ שנעשה מקום המחיה בהרת טמא – for the first blossoming is not blossoming, since there remains from the skin of the flesh one-half of a lentil adjacent to the head, whereas the current blossoming where the quick flesh is covered of half a lentil’s size is also not considered blossoming, since they have been made bald already and they made a scab, they are like the skin of the flesh, and it is not effective until it blossoms also upon them.