Negaim 10:5 - 10:6

כיצד מגלחין את הנתק – at the end of the first week (to his isolation/being shut up/quarantined) that it did not spread and did not give rise to golden hair (as it is written – Leviticus 13:33 – “the person with the scall shall shave himself [but without shaving the scall; the priest shall isolate him for another seven days]).”

היה מגלח חוצה לו – he shaves around the bald, blanched spot [on the head or in the beard].

ומניח שתי שערות – as it is written (Leviticus 13:33): "והתגלח ואת-הנתק לא יגלח"/ “the person with he scall shall shave himself, but without shaving the scall,” for what does he have in it? For hasn’t the hair already been torn loose and fallen out? But rather, near the bald, blanched spot (i.e., the “scall”) he doesn’t shave, that he leaves around the bald, blanched spot two hairs from every side, it is found that the bald, blanched spot (i.e., the scall) is surround by hair like a crown.

החליטו בשער צהוב – and after he was declared a certified leper through it, the golden hair went away and after that came back.

וכן בפשיון – that the golden hair did not return but rather that it spread, whether this (i.e., golden hair) or that (i.e., spreading), he is a certified leper like he was.

בתחלה בסוף שבוע ראשון – meaning to say, this law that we stated is in effect whether he was declared a certified leper with the golden hair when he was brought to the Kohen, whether he was declared to be a certified leper with golden hair at the end of the first week, or at the end of he second week, or after the release, as for example, it remained unchanged for two weeks and he was released, but after the release, two yellow hairs appeared and he was declared a certified leper. But in all of them, [if] the golden hair went away and then returned, or that it didn’t return but the scall/bald, blanched spot, he is as he was.

החליטו בפשיון – as it was explained that he was declared a certified leper with the golden hair, such one explains his being declared a certified leper through spreading. But here, with spreading, we don’t have this reading at the beginning, for the spreading does not defile other than after isolation/being shut up.

שני נתקים זה בצד זה – and there is in each of them a like a Cilician split bean. For with bald, blanched spots (i.e., scalls), we require like the size of a split [Cilician] bean, as it is written (Leviticus 13:31): “But if the priest finds the scall affection”/נגע הנתק – and an analogy is made between נגע/plague and נתק/bald, blanched spot on the head (or on the beard), just as the plague is like the size of a split [Cilician] bean, so even the bald, blanched spot on the head (or on the beard) is like the size of a split [Cilician] bean. But if two bald, blanched spots/scalls are placed one next to the other and there is a line of hair that separating the two bald, blanched spots/scalls, and divides it into two like a partition that separates.

נפרץ – the hair of that line/row [that separates them].

במקום אחד – at the end of the first week of isolation/being shut up/quarantine or at the end of the second week or after the release.

טמא – for the bald, blanched spot/scall had spread.

בשני מקומות – that line/row that separated below and above and remained from that line/row two hairs in the middle.

טהור – for they (i.e., of the hair affected by the eruption) are surrounded and protected.

כמה תהא הפרצה – if in the two places they were separated, the measurement of the gap in the place of the two hairs, and thusly the hairs are considered be surrounded.

ואם במקום אחד נפרצו טמא – even if it was severed/broken off like the size of a split [Cilician] bean, it is impure, for the black hair is not surrounded and gathered in within the plague, since it is not severed in -two places.