Parah 8:11 - 9:1

באר אחאב – it is not explained where this is, but it comes to tell us that they are fresh waters.

ומערת פמייס – a cave that is near to the city of Dan from where the Jordan goes out. And in the language of Ishmael (i.e., the Moslems), they call the Dan, Banias.

ר' יהודה אומר הרי היא בחזקת מותרת – but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

עד שתצל – until the waters return to become clear/settled as at first. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yishmael.

צלוחית – a vessel that they place in it the waters mixed with ashes (i.e., waters of lustration) after he had cast the ashes into them, is called צלוחית/a flask [with a wide body and a narrow neck- containing the sprinkling water], and the vessel that they place in it the water in order to mix them prior to placing in the ashes is called שוקת/trough.

מים כל שהן – which are not fit for sprinkling.

יזה שתים – for if he sprinkles once, perhaps there isn’t here from the fit/appropriate [waters], but when he sprinkles twice, it is impossible that there isn’t in one of hem from the fit/appropriate [waters]. But the sprinkling does not need a [set] measure.

וחכמים פוסלים – that they hold that sprinkling requires a [fixed] measure, and we don’t combine sprinklings. And the Halakha is according to the Sages. But Maimonides explained that he should make two sprinklings and cast them outside of the vessel, the rest should remain the waters of lustration which are fit/appropriate. And this is a hidden thing in my eyes, for in the Gemara in the chapter, "כל הזבחים"/All of the offerings (Chapter 8 of Tractate Zevakhim) [folio 80a], it is implied as I explained it.

יניחנו בחמה והטל עולה – that it is the manner of the dew to evaporate/to go up towards the sun. And similarly, it (i.e., Scripture) states (Exodus 16:13-14): “In the morning…when the fall of dew lifted, [there, over the surface of the wilderness lay a fine and flaky substance, as fine as frost on the ground].” But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eliezer.

יערה וכו' – he empties out what is within the vessel, and it is not fit to leave in it the waters of purification until it dries from the liquids and fruit juice.

יערה ואינו צריך לנגב – and if there is that remains from it in the vessel, its mark is recognized.