Today's Mishnah Yomi
Uktzin 1:3 - 1:4
The Mishnah Yomi for Wednesday, September 8, 2027 is Uktzin 1:3 - 1:4
Mishnah 1
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Mishnayos Uktzin Perek 1 Mishnah 3
עוקצים פרק א׳ משנה ג׳
Bartenura
מיטמאים ומטמאים ולא מצטרפים. לפי שהן ידות בלבד, ואינן משמרין את האוכל:
ויד הפרכיל. כשהענבים כרותים עם הזמורה, נקראים פרכיל. לשון פרכילי ענבים:
טפח מכאן וטפח מכאן. הזמורה שנקצצה והאשכולות תלויין בה, טפח מן הזמורה מימין לאשכול וטפח משמאל, חשוב יד, טפי לא:
יד האשכול. עוקץ האשכול שתלוי בזמורה, הוא יד האשכול:
כל שהוא. אפילו ארוך הרבה:
זנב האשכול. סופו של אשכול:
שריקנו. שהושרו ממנו גרעיני הענבים, אף הוא יד לענבים שבראשו, שאוחזים אותו בזנבו. ואף הוא שיעורו בכל שהוא, ואפילו ארוך הרבה:
והמכבד של תמרה. מכבדות של תמרים, בהן תמרים, שיעור אורך היד שלהן להביא את הטומאה, ארבעה טפחים, אבל טפי לא:
ומלעין של שבולין. זקן העליון של שבולת שיצא בראשו כמין שער של זקן:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Uktzin Perek 1 Mishnah 4
עוקצים פרק א׳ משנה ד׳
Bartenura
אלו לא מטמאין – that they are not considered either a protection or a handle.
קולסי כרוב (cabbage-heads/stalks) – Maimonides explained, the heads of the cabbage where sinews that surround them extend out from them (one needs to say, entangled), and it the manner of cabbage sellers that they cut them and cast them off.
וחליפות התרדים (and the young shoots of beets) – the roots of the beets that remain in the ground when they cut the beats in order to exchange and others will rise up in their place.
את שדרכן ליגזז – the things where the practice is to cut them not to uproot them with their roots, if to uproot them, the roots do not defile, because they are not either a handle nor a protection.
ר' יוסי מטמא בכולן – for all of them are considered a handle for food except for the cabbage-heads/stalks and the turnip, for those sinews that surround (that are entangled) are not considered either a handle or a protector. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yossi.
אלו לא מטמאין. שאין חשובין לא שומר ולא יד:
קולסי כרוב. רמב״ם פירש, ראשי הכרוב שיוצאים מהם גידים שסובבים (מסובכים צ״ל), דרך מוכרי הכרוב שכורתים אותן ומשליכין אותן:
חליפות התרדים. שרשי התרדים שמשאירים בקרקע כשחותכים התרדים כדי שיחליפו ויעלו אחרים תחתם:
את שדרכן ליגזז. הדברים שדרכם לגוזזן ולא לעקרן עם שרשיהם, אם עקרן אין השרשים מטמאין, לפי שאינן לא יד ולא שומר:
ר׳ יוסי מטמא בכולן. דכולם חשובים יד לאוכל, חוץ מקולסי כרוב והלפת שאותן גידין הסובבים [המסובכים] אינן חשובים לא יד ולא שומר. ואין הלכה כר׳ יוסי:
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מיטמאים ומטמאים ולא מצטרפים – because they are handles only, and do not protect the food.
ויד הפרכיל (the handle, stem of a vine) – when the grapes are cut with the vine-shoot/rod, they are called פרכיל/handle, stem of a vine. The language of (see Tractate Betzah 30b and Tractate Sukkah 10a) twigs with grapes.
טפח מכאן וטפח מכאן – the vine-shoot that is cut and the clusters [of grapes] are suspended/hang on it, a handbreadth from the vine-shoot from the right of the cluster and a handbreadth from the left, is considered a handle, but not more.
יד האשכול – the peduncle/point of the cluster [of grapes] is suspended/hanging from the vine-shoot/rod, which is the handle of the cluster.
כל שהוא – even if it is very long.
זנב האשכול – the end of the cluster [of grapes]
שריקנו (the skeleton of a cluster of grapes which one has stripped – of its grapes) – that were loosened from it the globules/stone, kernel of a stone fruit, even that it is the handle to the grapes at its head/top, that we hold it by its ail. And even its measurement is whatever the amount, and even very long.
והמכבד של תמרה (the fan-shaped twig of the palm tree/the broom of the palm tree) – the fan-shaped twigs of the palm trees and upon them are palms, the measurement is the length of their handle to include the defilement of four handbreadths, but not more.
ומלעין של שבלים (the outer husk of grains/glume) – upper beard of the ear of corn that extended on its head, like a kind of hair of a beard.