Machshirin 1:5 - 1:6

המוחק את כרישה (a person who rubs – the wetness off – the leek) - he presses/squeezes the leek in order that the dew leaves it.

כרישה – leeks in the language of Scripture (see Numbers 11:5, PUROSH in the foreign language, and in Arabic KURAT.

והסוחט בשערו ובכסותו (and he who wrings out his hair with his garment) – that he was coming on the path and rain fell on his hair and on his garment, and he wrings them out in order that the water would leave.

ואת שבו – the remaining liquids that fell afterwards on the fruit.

מתכוין שיצאו מכולן – that he intended to remove from them all the water, but it is was not his intention concerning the remainder. Therefore, it is not fit for Levitical uncleanness, according to the School of Hillel of the beginning of the chapter (see Mishnah 2).

הנופח – [he blows] with this mouth.

בעדשים – that spittle exited upon them from his mouth with his blowing, and the spittle that comes out from the mouth is considered from the derivatives of water.

אינן בכי יותן – since he did not intend for this [to occur].

וחכמים אומרים בכי יותן – since he intended to blow, and it is the manner of the spittle to leave through blowing. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.

האוכל שומשמין – as for example, that he placed sesame in one hand, and a finger that was on his second hand he places into his mouth to moisten with spittle and he places it on the sesame that is in his other hand and they become attached and he brings in his finger into his mouth and eats, and on account of this, the hand that the sesame was in is moistened. And there is liquid dripping.

ר' שמעון אומר אינן בכי יותן – for he intended to moisten his finger, but not to moisten the hand that the sesame was in. But the Rabbis hold, since that he considered/planned with his finger, he makes it fit for Levitical uncleanness even unintentionally, as is taught in the Mishnah at the beginning of our chapter (Mishnah 1): “Any liquid which in the beginning is acceptable, even though at the end it is not acceptable…is under the law of “if water is put [on the seed and any part of a carcass falls upon it, it shall be impure for you]” (Leviticus 11:38). But Rabbi Shimon holds, that it was not acceptable at the beginning other than the moistened liquid of the finger alone. But the remainder that was moistened by the hand was never acceptable. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon in our entire Mishnah.

הסריקין (the robbers. See also Tractate Gittin, Chapter 5, Mishnah 6) – (Judges 11:3): “Men of low character gathered about Jephthah [and went out raiding with him].” We translate into Aramaic: “reckless men.” The language of an אילן סרק /a tree which bears no fruit. Another explanation: סריקין/thieves, for such is the language of Ishmael who calls thieves סראקין/unsavory. And there are those who have the reading: סקרין , the language that there weren’t robbers in the Judea among those who were killed in the war [as described] in the chapter (the fifth chapter of Tractate Gittin, Chapter 5, Mishnah 6) הנזקין (see Tractate Gittin, folio 55b, meaning robbers and violent men.

בשבולת הנהר (the current of the river, the rapid stream) – the path of the river and the running of its waters. It is the language of (Psalms 69:3): “the flood sweeps me away.”

להביאן עמו – that he was not able to carry them, and he floated them down the river.