Negaim 11:7 - 11:8

קייטא – clothing that it is customary to wear in the days of the heat. The Aramaic translation of קיץ/summer is summer/קייטא. But it appears to me that it is the Roman language that calls the dress of a woman KUTYA.

שיש לו פספסין (that it has stripes)- striped/speckled in many colors, white and green and black and similar to those. [The word] פספסין – is the language of פס יד/the palm/the hand from the wrist to the tip of the finger, that the wrist is from the white cloth and the wrist is from the cloth of color.

ולבנים פושים מזה לזה – from [one] white [garment] to [another] white [garment]. But even though the colored part interrupts, it is considered spreading. For spreading far defiles with like the size of a split [Cilician] bean.

והרי הוא פספס יחידי (And lo, it is a distinctive check?) – meaning to say, if he didn’t have in it other than one speckled white area and all the rest are speckled colored. Does it require isolation or not because it lacks to where it would spread?

אמר להן לא שמעתי – meaning to say, I received from my Teachers/Rabbis that it requires isolation, but they did not explain the reason why.

אלמד בו – meaning to say, permit me to state before you a reason for the matter.

אם לפרש דברי חכמים הן – that you will not contradict what I have received [from my Rabbis].

שמא יעמוד שני שבועות – that even though he lacks in what manner it will spread, it is able to come to uncleanness, for if it remains unchanged for two weeks.

הפסיון הסמוך – that it spreads adjacent to/near the starting point of the leprosy.

הרחוק – that the starting point of the leprosy is at one end of the cloth and the spreading is at the other end.

והחוזר – as for example, that it became dim/pale in the second [week] that he tears it and burns what he tore, as it is written (Leviticus 13:57): "ואם תיראה עוד בבגד...ושרף [באש תשרפנו את אשר-בו הנגע]"/And if it occurs again in the cloth [whether in warp or in woof – or in any article of skin, it is a wild growth; the affected article] shall be consumed in fire.” (Bartenura does NOT accurately quote the verse as he has the word "ושרף"/and he shall burn – which does not appear in the text of the Torah.). And this is that which returns, and its measurement is like that of a split [Cilician] bean.

השתי והערב – [the warp and woof] of wool, that is recognized whether warp to woof,that the warp is thin and the woof is very thick.

השתי מישלק – as it is written (Leviticus 13:47-48): “in a cloth made of wool or linen fabric. In the warp or in the woof of the linen or the wool,” just as the cloth, when its work was completed, even the warp and the woof, when their work is completed. But the first Tanna/teacher holds, or with the warp, the matter was interrupted.

משישלק – in boiling water. But there are books that have the reading "משישלה", meaning to say that when they would be pulled/drawn out and transfer it from the dyer’s kettle when they boil them in it to whiten them.

והאונין של פשתן (bundles of wet flax) – bundles of yard of flax. But because the flax is not recognized between warp and woof like wool, because of this, there is no division in them between warp to woof.

משיתלבנו – that they place them in the oven so that they will heat up with the vapor of the oven and they be whitened/bleached there.

פקעת (coil of thread) – wood that the women surround the yarn from the reed used as a spindle into it.

כדי לארוג ממנה שלש על שלש – in order that there be there the measurement to make all of the cloth of three fingerbreadths by three fingerbreadths from it, also the warp [and] also the woof, as it is taught [in the Mishnah], “and even it is all warp, even if all of it is woof.”

היתה פסיקות (broken threads) – that the threads in the coil of thread were broken, there is no attachment. But if they are knotted, there is attachment.

אפילו פסיקה אחת – that there isn’t throughout all of the coil of thread other than one tear and he knotted it, it is not an attachment. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda..