Parah 11:1 - 11:2

צלוחית – [a flask with a wide belly and a narrow neck] of water of purification.

ובא ומצאה מכוסה פסולה – that I say that a person entered to there and covered it, most people are not ritually pure for the purification offering.

אם יכולה חולדה לשתות ממנה פסולה – but if it (i.e., the weasel) is not able to drink we do not invalidate it for the reason that perhaps an unclean/impure man entered and uncovered it, for it is not the manner of people to uncover but rather to cover because of the insects, but insects/moving creature, it is their manner to uncover/reveal but it is not their manner to cover. But specifically, something covered and he found it uncovered, we are concerned for a weasel, but something that is uncovered and he found it uncovered like he left it, we are not concerned, even though they were suspect to supply revealed/uncovered water, for danger is more stringent than a prohibition.

או נחש לדברי רבן גמליאל – who said above (in Tractate Parah, Chapter 9, Mishnah 3) that even the snake invalidates it because it vomits.

החטאת – the ashes of the purification rite or the mixed waters [with ashes] that were in the tent of a corpse within a vessel that has upon it a tight-fitting lid.

אינן נצולין – and are defiled. From what is written (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 this is not a pure/clean place. But vessels that stand to place in them the waters of purification or the ashes of purification/sin-offering, and similarly the hyssop that is prepared to sprinkle on it, are protected by a tight-fitting lid.

כל הספק טהור לתרומה – any matter of doubt that if it that same doubt appeared in the heave-offering, the heave offering is pure, if it appeared in a similar manner in the purification offering, it is pure (see also Tractate Taharot, Chapter 4, Mishnah 2).

וכל התלוי לתרומה – and an doubt that if it appeared in heave-offering where we suspend it we don’t eat neither do we burn it, if it appeared in a similar manner in the purification offering, the ashes should poured out or the mixed mater. And in the Tractate Taharot, in the Chapter “He Who Threw Something Unclean”/הזורק תרומה (Chapter Four), we taught to them regarding a doubt of something pure and on a doubt that is upon his hands, we suspend it regarding heave-offering (see Tractate Taharot, Chapter 4, Mishnah 5).

ואם עשו על גביו טהרות (and if they prepared clean things on account of it) – if e sprinkled with these ashes that were defined in doubt that was suspended for heave-offering, and made clean things on account of it through that sprinkling, they suspend those pure things, and they don’t eat nor burn them.

הרפפות (cases of Levitical uncleanness arising from vibrations caused by unclean persons) – like a kind of net-work/mat of wood.

טהורת לקודש לתרומה ולחטאת – because they are not vessels and they are not suitable/appropriate for treading [by someone with a flux or a woman after childbirth].

והרעדות (indirect contact through vibrations) – pieces of wood/boards that are not attached well to each other, and when a person leans upon them, they vibrate/tremble and shaking.

טמאות לחטאת – sometimes when a person sis upon them and they are appropriate to become defiled though sitting. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eliezer.