Negaim 12:5 - 12:6

לא יגזור (will not decisively rule) –the judge will not make a legal ruling to state that it is a definitive plague, from as it is written (Leviticus 14:35): "[ובא אשר-לו בבית והיגד לכהן לאמר] כנגע נראה לי בבית"/ “[The owner of the house shall come and tell the priest, saying,] ‘Something like a plague has appeared upon my house,’” but it is not written [a definitive] נגע/plague (but rather, something like a plague).

אפילו חבילי עצים (and even bundles of wood) – which are not included in the uncleanness, one must remove. But as it is written (Leviticus 14:36): "ולא יטמא כל-אשר בבית" / “so that nothing in the house may become unclean,” that implies that the All-Merciful was stringent regarding uncleanness, Rabbi Yehuda holds that this is a matter on its own , to inform us that vessels that were initially also defiled, if he left them. But the Halakah is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

עסק זה לפינוי – in astonishment, and to busy himself to empty out the house, Scripture needed that you must remove things that are not susceptible to receive defilement, by force, Scripture does not come to expound other than like Rabbi Meir expounds that the Torah has compassion on the money of Israelites.

פכו (his cruse) – the language of small cruses.

תפיו (to set upon for cooking/ewer) – a place that one makes and cooks on it his dishes, as for example, an earthenware oven and [an earthenware] double stove that ae susceptible to become unclean. But there are books that have the reading טפיו/his stand for a portable oven/dripping, and it is a very small earthenware vessel that the liquid does not leave from it other by constant dripping. And all of these do not have purification in a Mikveh.

וא"כ על של רשע – that the plagues come on account of gossip/evil talk.

אינו הולך לתוך ביתו – as it is written (Leviticus 14:38): “The priest shall come out of the house [to the entrance of the house, and close up the house for seven days].” It is possible that he would go to his house and shut it up, the inference teaches us (Leviticus 14:38): “to the entrance of the house”/"אל-פתח הבית", or on the entrance of the house, it is possible that he would stand underneath the lintel and shut it up, as the inference teaches us (Leviticus 14:38): “The priest shall come out of the house”/"ויצא הכהן מן-הבית" until he uproots from everything in the house (see also Tractate Nedarim 56b and Hullin 10b).

ולא סיד מכל מקום (and not lime from any place) – as it is written (Leviticus 14:42): “and take other coating ]and plaster the house[”/"ועפר אחר יקח [וטח את-הבית]", but he lime is not dirt, but rather burnt stone.

לא אחת תחת שתים – a large stone that replaces the place of the two [stones].

מכאן אמרו אוי לרשע ואוי לשכנו – if a wall interrupts between two houses and the plague appears on the wall on the side of this house, the owner of the other house has to deal with him on this, as it is written (Leviticus 14:40): “[The priest] shall order the stones with the plague in them to be pulled out”/"[וצוה הכהן] וחלצו את-האבנים אשר בהן הנגע", in the plural language (i.e., וחלצו את האבנים – they shall pull out the stones). And the one for whom the plague is on the side of his house is called an “evil” person, for plagues come on account of gossip/evil talk, as we have stated.

שניהם קוצעים (both of the neighbors must bear the expense for tearing out – the leprous stone, and for scraping the wall) – it is the language of (Leviticus 14:41): “The house shall be scraped inside all around”/”ואת-הבית יקצע מבית סביב" .

יקח וטח – it is singular language (Leviticus 14:42): "ועפר איר יקח וטח את-הבית"/ “and take other coating and plaster the house,” to exclude his neighbor that does not deal with him in plastering.