Parah 10:3 - 10:4

קלל של חטאת (the vessel containing the ashes for lustration) – an earthenware vessel that has in the ashes of the [Red] Heifer. The Aramaic translation [of קלל] is from (Genesis 24:15): "וכדה על שכמה"/ “[Rebekah came out] with her jar on her shoulder,” the vessel/jar on her shoulder.

שנגע בשרץ טהור – for an earthenware vessel does not become defiled from what is on top of it.

שנתנו כל גביו -that he placed the pitcher/jar on top of the insect.

וחכמים מטמאין – because it was placed in an impure place, and the Torah stated (Numbers 19:9): “[A man who is pure shall gather up the ashes of the cow] and deposit them outside the camp in a pure place,” but Rabbi Eliezer holds that since the vessel and the ashes that are within it are ritually pure, it well that we call it, “a pure place.” But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eliezer.

ר' יוסי מטהר – through placing it (i.e., the vessel containing ashes for lustration) on top of food and liquids and Holy Scrolls, since it’s place is ritually pure from a primary source of ritual uncleanness.

וחכמים מטמאים – for we require that it be ritually pure from all defilement, and [regarding] Holy Scrolls, the Rabbis decreed that they defile the hands. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.

שנגע בתנור – and even if it is ritually pure for Holy Things, if the person who was clean for the purification rite touched the oven.

טמא – and he requires ritual immersion for the purification/sin-offering, for the person who is clean for Holy Things invalidates the purification offering, and especially that he touched it with his hand, that his hands became defiled and his body became defiled. But by his foot, he is ritually pure, that his hand is served above, but his foot is not served above, similar to food and drink above (in the previous Mishnah).

והלגין בתוכו – a vessel that he put into it the waters of purification which is placed within his hand.

וכן האסל (and similarly a yoke/pole carried on one or two shoulders) – a balancing pole/staff that they place wo pitchers on its two heads.

ובו שתי קללות – two vessels that the ashes are placed in them, for one pitcher is tied to the head of the balancing pole/staff, and the other pitcher is tied on its second head, but now the person and the yoke/pole are on top of the oven, and the bottle/flagon and the pitcher that the water and the ashes are in them are outside of the oven.

ר' עקיבא מטהר – that the vessel that contains the ashes does not stand on top of the oven, as it is in a pure place.

וחכמים מטמאין – since he person who carries I is standing on top of the oven, we consider the vessel as if it stands on top of the oven and it is placed in a ritually impure place. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Akiva (see also Talmud Shabbat 97b)