Negaim 11:5 - 11:6

העומד – unchanged at the end of the first week, that it didn’t spread nor did its appearance become dim/faint.

יכבס – the place of the plague and isolate/quarantine him.

העומד בשני – at the end of the second week it didn’t become dim/faint nor did it spread, [it should be burned].

הפושה בזה ובזה – at the end of he first week or at the end of the second week.

הכהה בתחילה – when it was brought to the Kohen and he saw it but prior to his isolating/quarantining him, it became faint.

יכבס ויסגיר – as if it became faint at the end of the first week.

הכהה – that it was at the beginning a strong greenish color or reddish color, and it became medium green or medium red.

אינו זקוק לו (it is not subject to it) – it is not necessary to isolate/quarantine him, and he is pure. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.

הכהה בראשון יכבס ויסגיר – it is as if it did not grow faint.

הכהה בשני – that at the end of the second week, he found it that it had become faint.

קורעו ושורף מה שקרע, וצריך מטלית – the language of a patch/טלאי (see Joshua 9:5: “they had worn-out, patched sandals on their feet, and threadbare clothes on their bodies”). A piece of cloth in place of the ear, as it is written (Leviticus 13:57): “And if it occurs again in the cloth – [whether in warp or in woof – or in any article of skin],”/"ואם תראה עוד [בבגד או-בשתי או-בערב או כבל-כלי-עור]" , but [the word] “again” is none other than in its place, which teaches that one covers it with a patch.

רבי נחמיה אומר כו' – but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Nehemiah.

חזר הנגע לבגד – in another place from the cloth, but not upon the patch that he placed on the place of the tear.

מציל את המטלית – when he burns the entire cloth, as it is written (Leviticus 13:57): "ואם תראה עוד"/”And if it occurs again [in the cloth – whether in warp or in woof – or in any article of skin],” and he burns the cloth. [But] he saves the patch, that patch that he put on the place of the tear he saves, and he doesn’t burn it with the cloth.

חזר למטלית – o that place that he attached to it.

שורף את הבגד – as if it returned to the cloth itself. But the patch does not require burning, but rather if it is three [handbreadths] by three [handbreadths], he isolates/quarantines it, and if it remained unchanged two weeks or it spread in the first week, he burns it. But if it is less than three [fingerbreadths] by three [fingerbreadths] it is not susceptible to uncleanness by plagues.

הטולה מן המוסגר – that he made a patch from the piece of cloth that had been in isolation on the pure/clean cloth. And the isolated one is called to a cloth that remained unchanged in the first week but in the second became pale/dim, that he tears out from it the plague and burns what he tore, but the rest of the cloth is called מוסגר/isolated/quarantined.

חזר הנגע לבגד – that is isolated/quarantined. That this piece that was taken from it which is now a patch for a pure cloth, even though the cloth that is isolated/quarantined requires burning, as it is written (Leviticus 13:57): "ואם תראה עוד בבגד"/”And if it occurs again in the cloth.”

מציל את המטלית – that is this patch that was taken from it and attached on to a pure/clean cloth, we save/protect it and we don’t burn it with the quarantined/isolated cloth.

חזר – the plague.

למטלית – to this piece that was taken from the isolated/quarantined [cloth].

ישרף – the quarantined [cloth] in every place that it is , as if it was the piece that was attached to it. And that piece may serve he second cloth that is attached to it. בסימנים – that it is shut up/isolated/quarantined with the second cloth. For the law of the second is as if the plague is in it, whether in regard to isolation, or whether in regard to burning and washing and every matter. But after it served the second cloth, even if the plague went away completely from the piece, it (requires burning, for when the plague returned from its outset, it was already required burning.