Tevul Yom 2:8 - 3:1

בעבוע שבחבית – when they smelt an earthenware vessel in a furnace/kiln, kinds of bubbles go out in their walls, that they have two walls – one to the inner side of the jar and one to the outer side, and an empty cavity in the middle, and sometimes, there is in a bubble of two incisions/holes, one in the wall of the bubble of the inner side which is to the side of the hollow cavity of the jar, and one in the wall of the outer side, and the jar is filled with liquids, the liquids enter through the incision that is in the inner wall and it breaks through/bursts forth and leaves through the incision that is in the outer wall from above, if it was a jar placed in the tent of a corpse, and is surrounded by a closely covered lid in its mouth and is not surrounded with incisions of bubbles, or that someone who is a primary source of ritual defilement touched/came in contact with the liquid that is in the outer incision, all the liquids are defiled that in the jug, but if the inner part from above them and the outer part from below them, assuming that in a tent of a corpse it becomes defiled, that the tent of the defilement enters into the jar through the incisions, however with a primary source of ritual defilement it is ritually pure, for if a primary source of ritual defilement came in contact with liquids that are in the outer incision that is in the bubble from below, after the inner part from above was like an uninterrupted flow of a liquid poured from vessel to vessel and like blows/lashes (i.e., downward strokes) and it is not a connection.

כל ידות האוכלים (all [stalks serving as] handles for produce) – the stalks that the food is hung/suspended on them, when they want to suspend them, and a person holds it when he wants to eat the fruit/produce.

שהם חיבור באב הטומאה (and it is deemed connected by a primary source of ritual uncleanness) – that if the primary source of ritual uncleanness/defilement touched the fruit/produce itself.

חיבור בטבול יום – if it is a handle for produce of priest’s due/heave-offering and the person who had immersed himself that day/Tevul Yom touched that handle, all of the produce/fruit of heave-offering is invalidated.

שנפרס (that is broken off/divided) – the language of a piece/half. But there are those who have the reading שנפרם/that it is torn open/exposed. It is the language of (Leviticus 21;10): “or rend his vestments.”

מעורה (intertwined/interwoven) – attached [somewhat].

אם אוחז בגדול – the large piece, and the small piece goes up with it and is not broken off from everything.

הרי הוא כמוהו – and if a person who had immersed himself that day/Tevul Yom touched one of them and the second [piece] is invalidated.

ר' נחמיה אומר בטהור – meaning to say, in that which the person who had immersed himself that day did not touch we estimate/measure, whether it is large or whether it is small. If he grabs hold of it, and the impure part is with him, both of them are impure.

וחכמים אומרים בטמא – we estimate/measure, if he grabs hold of the impure piece and the ritually pure piece goes up with it. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.

ושאר כל האוכלים – as for example kinds/species of vegetables.

את שדרכו לאחוז – when he comes to carry it, he holds it by its leaf, but if the green/vegetable breaks and falls when he holds it by the leaf, it is a connection/junction, but if not, it is not a connection, whether if the Tevul Yom/person who had immersed himself that day had touched the leaf or whether he touch the green/vegetable itself.