Parah 7:1 - 7:2

חמשה. לקדשן חמשה קידושין – each and every jar on its own.

ונמלכו לקדשן קידוש אחד – to empty five of them into one large vessel and to mix the [the water with the ashes] at once/simultaneously.

הרי כולן כשרים – for since each pone fills his vessel there isn’t here labor invalidating in water whether in filling/drawing water to casting the ashes in the water.

היחיד שמליא חמש חביות כו' – nothing is fit/appropriate other than the last. For the first filling is invalidated with the work that he did when he filled the second [jar] prior to putting the ashes in the first [jar], and similarly, the second [filling] is invalidated when he fills the third [jar], and similarly all of them. But if from the outset he would fill five jars one after another or even one-[hundred jars in order to mix ashes and water in one mixing, as for example, that he needs to sprinkle upon many vessels, they would not invalidate each other and all of them are fit/appropriate, for all are considered one filling/drawing water. But when he filled from the outset for the sake of five mixings, all of them invalidate each other for reason of the labor, for it invalidates in the water until he casts in the ashes, therefore, nothing is fit/appropriate other than the last.

ונמלך לקדשן חמשה קדושין – that he mixed this one on its own and that one on its own.

אין כשר אלא זו שקידש ראשון – for the first mixing [of ashes and water] is considered labor for the others that would be filled ‘with water] but he did not place the ashes into them, for until he places the ashes, the labor invalidates in the water.

אמר לאחד קדש לך את אלו – the individual that filled five jars to perform one mixing [of ashes and water], and he said to another person: “Mix for yourself these,” and he mixed [ashes and water] for five mixings, nothing is fit/appropriate other than the first, for since he said to him: “Mix for yourself and he gave them (i.e., the ashes and the water) to him, they became his and it is as if he filled them, and the mixing [of ashes and water] that he first did became [extrinsic] work to invalidate the others.

אבל אם אמר קדש לי את אלו כולן כשרים – that the person who fills [the jars] did not do work, and the person who mixes [ashes and water] that is not his in order that they will become invalidated by [the actions of] his hand.

ועשה מלאכה בידו אחת – the filling/drawing water is invalid for reason of the [extrinsic] work.

לו ולאחר – (etc. at the same time).

שניהם פסולים – for since that for two people he is filling water, it is considered that one does work for his fellow.

בין לו בין לאחר – that even though the water is not his, he has invalidated them with the [extrinsic] work/labor that he did at the time of the drawing of the water.