Today's Mishnah Yomi
Machshirin 6:7 - 6:8
The Mishnah Yomi for Wednesday, July 28, 2027 is Machshirin 6:7 - 6:8
Mishnah 1
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מכשירין פרק ו׳ משנה ז׳
Bartenura
ואלו לא מטמאים. אפילו יצאו מן הטמא, כגון מן הזב וכיוצא בו. דכתיב בזובו טמא הוא, הוא טמא ואין זיעה וליחה סרוחה ורעי שלו טמאים:
והליחה סרוחה. היוצאת מן המורסה. והוא הדין ברוקק ליחה סרוחה:
והראי. צואה. כמו והרעי:
ודם היוצא עמהם. עם הליחה והרעי:
ומשקה בן שמונה. כל משקה שיצא מנפל שנולד בן שמונה חדשים, כגון דמו ורוקו ומימי רגליו. לפי שבן שמונה חי הרי הוא כאבן:
חוץ מדמו. שמטמא כדם של בן קיימא. ואין הלכה כר׳ יוסי:
אע״פ שיוצאין נקיים. שמוציא אותן דרך בית הרעי צלולים כמו שהיו כששתאן, אפילו הכי אין מכשירין, הואיל ויצאו דרך בית הרעי:
ר׳ אלעזר מטמא באלו. דמשקין הן חשובין, ומטמאין ומכשירין. ואין הלכה כר׳ אלעזר:
חלב הזכר טהור. דלא חשיב משקה. וכן הלכה:
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מכשירין פרק ו׳ משנה ח׳
Bartenura
חלב האשה מטמא – makes it fit/susceptible to receive ritual impurity. But if it (i.e., the milk) was defiled or that the woman was impure, it defiles according to the law of impure liquids that the designation/law of liquids has.
לרצון – that is milked intentionally.
ושלא לרצון – as for example, milk that drips from her breasts.
שאינו מיוחד אלא לקטנים – that unspecified is not considered all that much
שדם מגיפתה טמא (that the blood flowing from a woman’s wound is impure) – the blood that comes out from her wound is impure, for they are compared to the “blood of the slain”/דם חללים (see Numbers 23:24) which is called liquid, for what difference is it to me killing completely or killing [only] half.
שדם מגיפתה טהור – for the blood of an animal is not called “the blood of the slain”, for it is written regarding a human.
סלי זיתים וענבים יוכיחו – for one who presses/wrings them (i.e., olives and/or grapes) out for medical purposes it is impure, but nevertheless, with approval/intentionally are impure, but unintentionally, they are ritually pure. Even the milk, even though that one yields milk for medicinal purposes, it is impure, when it is milked unintentionally/without approval, it is law that it would be pure: and when it is not with approval/unintentional, that which comes out from the olives and grapes is not considered liquid until it comes out with approval/intentionally.
חלב האשה מטמא. מכשיר לקבל טומאה. ואם נטמא או שהאשה טמאה, מטמא כדין משקין טמאים, דתורת משקה יש בו:
לרצון. הנחלב בכונה:
ושלא לרצון. כגון חלב הנוטף מדדיה:
שאינו מיוחד אלא לקטנים. וסתמיה לא חשיב כולי האי:
שדם מגיפתה טמא. דהיוצא ממכתה טמא, דדמי לדם חללים שקרוי משקה, דמה לי קטלה כולה, מה לי קטלה פלגא:
שדם מגיפתה טהור. דדם בהמה לא אקרי דם חללים, דגבי אדם כתיב:
סלי זיתים וענבים יוכיחו. שהסוחטן לרפואה טמא, ואעפ״כ לרצון טמאים, שלא לרצון טהורים אף החלב, אע״פ שהחולב לרפואה טמא, כשנחלב שלא לרצון דין הוא שיהיה טהור ושלא לרצון טהורים. שאין היוצא מן הזיתים וענבים חשוב משקה עד שיצא לרצון:
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ואלו לא מטמאין – even if they departed/left from that which is impure as for example, from the man with a flux (i.e., gonorrhea) and similar to it, as it is written (Leviticus 15:2): "זובו טמא הוא"/”[when any man has] a discharge [from his member], he is impure” (Bartenura’s commentary writes: "בזובו טמא הוא" which does not exist in that form anywhere based upon my examination of a concordance), he and his discharge/flux are impure, but his sweat nor his ill-smelling moisture/secretion nor his excrement are impure.
והליחה סרוחה – that exits from the abscess, and the same law applies with regard to spittle of an ill-smelling secretion/purulent substance [of a man].
והראי – filthy matter/excrement, like והרעי/excrement.
ודם היוצא עמהם – with the moisture/secretion and the excrement.
ומשקה בן שמונה (and the liquid excreted with a stillborn child at eight months) – all the liquid that came out from the non-viable/premature birth of eight months, as for example, his blood, and his spittle and his urine, for a living eight-month-old baby is like a stone.
חוץ מדמו – that defiles like the blood of a viable child. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yossi.
אע"פ שיוצאים נקיים – that he discharges them [from his bowels] in the path of the privy that are clear like they were when he drank them, nevertheless they do not make susceptible [to receiving ritual impurity], for they exited through the privy.
ר' אלעזר מאמא באלו – for they are considered liquids, and defile and make susceptible [to receive ritual impurity]. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eliezer.
חלב הזכר טהור – for it is not considered liquid. And this is the Halakha.