Negaim 13:10 - 13:11

היה עומד בפנים – within the leprous house.

ופשט ידיו לחוץ וטבעותיו בידיו – here we are speaking that his rings are on his fingers like he wears them, and if he delayed in order to eat a piece of bread, they are impure, for they are clinging to his body, but if they were in the palm of his hand in the manner of burden, the Tosefta (Tractate Negaim, Chapter 7, Halakha 9) proves that they are impure immediately.

בזמן שאין כל גופו טמא – as for example, here when he stands outside and he is not defiled all the while that he did not put his head and the greater part of his body inside.

אינו דין שלא יטמא מה שעליו עד שישהה כדי אכילת פרס – And Rabbi Yehuda states, we found that the power of something impure to protect is greater than the power of something pure to protect, for an Israelite when they become susceptible to impurity, they protect vessels in the leprous house, for they don’t defile until he remains enough time to eat a piece of bread, but the heathen and cattle which are not susceptible to receive impurity, they do not protect vessels in a leprous house, for the clothing that is upon them are impure immediately. But the Halakha Is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

עד ארבע אמות – Rabbi Shimon holds that above four cubits is another domain, for the height of an average person is three cubits, and one cubit is for the prostration accompanied by stretched of hands and feet. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon.

כלים מיד טמאים – meaning to say, vessels that we stated even up until the beams according to the first Tanna/teacher, and until four cubits according to Rabbi Shimon, immediately become susceptible to impurity when he enters with them into the leprous house.

כדי הדלקת הנר – when he enters with permission, Rabbi Yehuda agrees/admits that the become susceptible to impurity immediately, but he doesn’t dispute other than when he enters without permission, because the dwelling of a leper defiles as we stated (earlier in this Mishnah), and when he enters with permission it is his dwelling immediately, but when he enters without permission, it is not his dwelling unless he remains enough time to light a candle and it doesn’t go out. But if he didn’t remain enough time in order to light a candle, it is not his dwelling, and that fact that [the master] throw him out is because he was preoccupied in lighting the candle because it was the onset of the Sabbath or on weekdays, and he was not able to bring it forth.