## Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot Chapter 3

###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:1:1
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**רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר כוּ'.** וְלָזֶה לֹג וּמֶחֱצָה וְנִתְעָרְבוּ. וַהֲרֵי יֵשׁ כָּאן שְׁלֹשָׁה לֻגִּין מַיִם שְׁאוּבִין שֶׁהֵן פּוֹסְלִין אֶת הַמִּקְוֶה, אַף עַל פִּי כֵן כְּשֵׁרִין:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
רבי יוסי אומר. ולזה לוג ומחצה ונתערבו – And behold there are three LOG of drawn water that invalidate the Mikveh, nevertheless, they are kosher/fit.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:1:2
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**שֶׁלֹּא נִקְרָא עֲלֵיהֶם שֵׁם פְּסוּל.** שֶׁאִם הָיוּ מוֹסִיפִין מַיִם כְּשֵׁרִין בְּכָל אֶחָד עַד תַּשְׁלוּם שִׁעוּר שֶׁל מִקְוֶה, הָיָה כָל אֶחָד מֵהֶן כָּשֵׁר:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
שלא נקרא עלהים שם פסול – that if they add kosher water (i.e., rainwater, for example) in all of them until the completion of the measurement of the Mikveh, that each one of them was kosher.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:1:3
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**וְנֶחֱלַק לִשְׁנַיִם.** וְהוֹסִיפוּ בְכָל אֶחָד מַיִם כְּשֵׁרִים עַד שֶׁיֵּשׁ בְּכָל אֶחָד מֵהֶם כְּשִׁעוּר מִקְוֶה:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
ונחלק לשנים – and they added to each one of them kosher water until there is in each one of them according to the measurement of the Mikveh (i.e., forty Seah).


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:1:4
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**פָּסוּל.** כָּל אֶחָד מֵהֶן:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
פסול – each one of them.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:1:5
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**וְחָסַר אֲפִלּוּ קֹרְטוֹב.** לְאַחַר שֶׁנָּפְלוּ עָלָיו שְׁלֹשָׁה לֻגִּין מַיִם שְׁאוּבִין מְצֻמְצָמִים נֶחְסַר מִמֶּנּוּ אֲפִלּוּ קֹרְטוֹב שֶׁל מַיִם:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
וחסר אפילו קרטוב – after three contracted/squeezed in LOGS of drawn water fell in it that was missing even a Kartuv (i.e., a small liquid measure equivalent to 1/64th of a LOG) of water.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:1:6
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**כָּשֵׁר.** לְהוֹסִיף עָלָיו מַיִם וּלְהַשְׁלִימוֹ לְשִׁעוּר מִקְוֶה. שֶׁאִי אֶפְשָׁר שֶׁבְּאוֹתוֹ קֹרְטוֹב שֶׁחָסַר, לֹא חָסֵר מְעַט מִן הַשְּׁלֹשָׁה לֻגִּין, וְנִמְצָא שֶׁלֹּא הָיָה בוֹ שְׁלֹשָׁה לֻגִּין מַיִם שְׁאוּבִין:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
כשר – [it is kosher/fit] to add upon it water to complete it for the measurement of a Mikveh/ritual bath. It is impossible that with this one that is lacking is not missing a little bit from the three LOGS, and it is found that there weren’t three LOGS of drawn water.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:1:7
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**קֹרְטוֹב.** חֵלֶק מִשִּׁשִּׁים בַּלֹּג:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
קרטוב – 1/64th of a LOG.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:1:8
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**עַד שֶׁיֵּצֵא מִמֶּנּוּ מְלֹאוֹ.** הַמַּיִם שֶׁהָיוּ בוֹ תְחִלָּה כְּשֶׁנָּפְלוּ בוֹ שְׁלֹשָׁה לֻגִּין מַיִם שְׁאוּבִין:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
עד שיצא ממנו מלואו – that water that was in it initially when the three LOGS of drawn water fell in.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:1:9
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**וָעוֹד.** מְעַט יוֹתֵר כְּדֵי לְחַסֵּר מִשְּׁלֹשָׁה לֻגִּין. כְּגוֹן מִקְוֶה שֶׁהָיוּ בוֹ עֶשְׂרִים סְאָה מַיִם כְּשֵׁרִים וְנָפְלוּ לְתוֹכוֹ שְׁלֹשָׁה לֻגִּין מַיִם שְׁאוּבִין וְנִתְמַלֵּא אַחַר כָּךְ מֵי גְשָׁמִים, לְעוֹלָם הוּא בִפְסוּלוֹ עַד שֶׁיּוֹצִיא מִמֶּנּוּ עֶשְׂרִים סְאָה שֶׁהָיוּ שָׁם תְּחִלָּה, וְעוֹד מְעַט יוֹתֵר, לְמַעֵט שְׁלֹשָׁה לֻגִּין:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
ועוד –a bit more in order to omit/lessen from the three LOGS [of drawn water]. As for example, a Mikveh which had in it twenty Seah of kosher water and three LOGS of drawn water fell into it and it was filled up afterwards with rain water, it will always be in its status of invalidity/unfitness until he removes from it the twenty Seah that were there initially, and a little bit more, to omit three LOGS [of drawn water].


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:2:1
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**שֶׁיַּעֲמִיד בֶּחָצֵר אַרְבָּעִים סְאָה.** מִקְוֶה כָשֵׁר לְמַטָּה מִן הַפָּסוּל, וּפוֹתְקָן לַכָּשֵׁר כְּדֵי שֶׁיִּתְחַבְּרוּ, וְיִטְהַר הָעֶלְיוֹן הַפָּסוּל מִן הַתַּחְתּוֹן הַכָּשֵׁר, דְּאָמְרִינַן גּוּד אַסֵּיק. וְכָל שֶׁכֵּן אִם הַכָּשֵׁר לְמַעְלָה וְהַפָּסוּל לְמַטָּה, דְּאָמְרִינַן גּוּד אַחֵית:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
שיעמיד בחצר ארבעים סאה – a kosher Mikveh below from the invalid/unfit one, and he opens a channel to the Kosher one (i.e., Mikveh) so that they can combine and the upper unit/invalid one can be purified from the lower Kosher one (i.e., Mikveh), as we stated, we raise/stretch it (i.e., the partitions – adopting the legal fictions that the partitions around the stand are prolonged). And all the more so, if the kosher [Mikveh] is above and the unfit/invalid one is below, for we state that we stretch and bring the partitions down (i.e., adopt the fiction that the walls are prolonged so as to reach the bottom).


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:2:2
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**אֶלָּא אִם כֵּן פָּסָק.** שֶׁפָּסְקוּ מֵימָיו וְיָצְאוּ מִמֶּנּוּ מְלוֹאוֹ וְעוֹד כְּדַאֲמַרַן. וְיֵשׁ גּוֹרְסִים אֶלָּא אִם כֵּן פָּקָק, כְּלוֹמַר אֶלָּא אִם כֵּן סָתַם עַל הַמִּקְוֶה אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה עַד שֶׁלֹּא יִגַּע אֶחָד בְּאֵלֶּה הַמַּיִם. וְגִרְסָא רִאשׁוֹנָה נִרְאֶה לִי עִקָּר. וְאֵין הֲלָכָה כְּרַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן עֲזַרְיָה:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
אא"כ פסק – that the waters spotted and went out from it to its fullness and a bit more, as we stated (in Mishnah 1). And there are those who have the reading [at the end of the Mishnah]: "אא"כ פקק"/unless he inserted a stop-gap/stopped it up, meaning to say, unless he closed off on the Mikveh that he had made until it will not make contact/touch any of the water. But the first reading appears to me to be the essential one. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:3:1
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**וְהָאַמָּה נִכְנֶסֶת לוֹ.** כְּגוֹן מֵי גְשָׁמִים שֶׁבָּאוּ מִן הַמִּדְרוֹן וְנִכְנָסִים לוֹ:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
האמה נכנסת לו (the water channel enters it) – as for example rain waters that come from the sloping and enter it.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:3:2
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**הַסּוֹחֵט אֶת כְּסוּתוֹ.** וְהַמַּיִם שֶׁהָיוּ נִבְלָעִים בּוֹ חֲשִׁיבֵי מַיִם שְׁאוּבִים, וּכְשֶׁהוּא סוֹחֲטָן לְתוֹךְ הַבּוֹר הֵן בָּאִין מִמְּקוֹמוֹת הַרְבֵּה שֶׁמִּכָּאן וּמִכָּאן לַבֶּגֶד:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
הסוחט את כסותו (a person who wrings out his garment) – and the water that was absorbed by it is considered drawn water, and when he wrings them out into the cistern/pit they come from many places, that from here and from there to the clothing.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:3:3
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**וְהַמְּעָרֶה מִן הַצַּרְצוּר.** כְּלִי חֶרֶס שֶׁעוֹשִׂין עַל פִּיו שְׂבָכָה כְּמִין מִכְבָּר מַעֲשֵׂה רֶשֶׁת, וְהַמְעָרֶה מִמֶּנּוּ מַטִּיל הַמַּיִם מִמְּקוֹמוֹת הַרְבֵּה:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
והמערה מן הצרצור (if one pouring water out of a cooler throws water out in several places) – an earthenware utensil that they make on its mouth network of lattice-work, and when he empties [water] from it, he pours in water from many places.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:3:4
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**רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא מַכְשִׁיר.** קָסָבַר דְּאֵין שְׁלֹשָׁה לֻגִּים מַיִם שְׁאוּבִין פּוֹסְלִין אֶת הַמִּקְוֶה אֶלָּא אִם כֵּן מַטִּילָן לַמִּקְוֶה מִכְּלִי אֶחָד וּמִמָּקוֹם אֶחָד, מַה שֶּׁאֵין כֵּן בִּכְסוּת וְצַרְצוּר:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
ר' עקיבא מכשיר – for he (i.e., Rabbi Akiva) holds that three LOGS of drawn water do not invalidate the Mikveh/ritual bath unless he pours them from one utensil and from one place, what is not the case with garments and a water cooler.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:3:5
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**וַחֲכָמִים פּוֹסְלִים.** דְּסָבְרֵי שְׁלֹשָׁה כֵלִים מִצְטָרְפִין:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
וחכמים פוסלים – for they (i.e., the Sages) hold that three utensils combine.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:3:6
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**לֹא אָמְרוּ מַטִּילִין אֶלָּא מַטִּיל.** כָּל זֶה קִבֵּל רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא מֵרַבּוֹתָיו, דִּכְלִי הַמַּטִּיל שְׁלֹשָׁה לֻגִּין מַיִם לַמִּקְוֶה פּוֹסֵל אֶת הַמִּקְוֶה:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
לא אמרו מטילין אלא מטיל – according to this language, Rabbi Akiva received [the tradition] from his Rabbis/teachers, a utensil that pours three LOGS of water to a Mikveh invalidates the Mikveh/ritual bath.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:3:7
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**וְלֹא כָךְ אָמְרוּ אֶלָּא שֶׁנָּפְלוּ.** וְלֹא שְׁנָא מִכְּלִי אֶחָד אוֹ מִכֵּלִים הַרְבֵּה. וְאֵין הֲלָכָה כְּרַבִּי עֲקִיבָא:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
ולא כך אמרו אלא שנפלו – it does not make a difference whether it is from one utensil or from many utensils. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Akiva.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:4:1
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**מִכְּלִי אֶחָד מִשְּׁנַיִם וְכוּ'.** סִיּוּמָא דְמִלְּתַיְהוּ דְרַבָּנָן הִיא:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
מכלי אחד משנים וכו' – the conclusion of their matter is according to the Rabbis.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:4:2
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**תִּשְׁעָה קַבִּין מַיִם.** בַּעַל קֶרִי חוֹלֶה שֶׁאֵינוֹ יָכוֹל לִטְבֹּל, אִם נָתְנוּ עָלָיו תִּשְׁעָה קַבִּין מַיִם, טָהוֹר. וְאַשְׁמְעִינַן מַתְנִיתִין דְּלֹא שְׁנָא מִכְּלִי אֶחָד לֹא שְׁנָא מִשְּׁנַיִם אוֹ שְׁלֹשָׁה כֵלִים:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
תשעה קבין מים – one who experienced a seminal emission (i.e., whether involuntarily, intentionally or during sexual relations, he becomes ritually impure – and must immerse himself in a ritual bath, and after nightfall on the day of his immersion, becomes ritually pure) who is infirm and is not able to immerse [in a Mikveh], if they placed upon him nine KABS (i.e., a KAB = one-sixth of a SEAH, or twenty- four egg bulks) of water, he is ritually pure. And our Mishnah comes to teach us that it doesn’t matter whether one uses one utensil, two utensils or three utensils.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:4:3
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**וְכֵן טָהוֹר שֶׁנָּפְלוּ עַל רֹאשׁוֹ וְעַל רֻבּוֹ שְׁלֹשָׁה לֻגִּין מַיִם שְׁאוּבִין.** דְּפוֹסֵל אֶת הַתְּרוּמָה, כִּדְאָמְרִינַן פֶּרֶק קַמָּא דְשַׁבָּת [דַּף יג], הָנֵי שְׁלֹשָׁה לֻגִּין מִשְּׁנַיִם אוֹ שְׁלֹשָׁה כֵלִים מִצְטָרְפִין, מֵאַרְבָּעָה אֵין מִצְטָרְפִין:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
וכן טהור שנפלו על ראשו ועל רובו שלשת לוגין מים שאובין – that invalidate the priest-due/heave-offering, as we stated in the first chapter of [Tractate] Shabbat [13b – and Tractate Zavim, Chapter 5, Mishnah 12]. These three LOGS, from two or three utensils – combine; from four [utensils] they do not combine.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:4:4
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**בַּמֶּה דְבָרִים אֲמוּרִים.** דְּמִשְּׁנַיִם וּשְׁלֹשָׁה כֵלִים מִצְטָרְפִין:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
במה דברים אמורים – that from two or three utensils they combine.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:4:5
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**בִּזְמַן שֶׁלֹּא נִתְכַּוֵּן לְרַבּוֹת.** אַמִּקְוֶה קָאֵי, שֶׁלֹּא נִתְכַּוֵּן לְהוֹסִיף עָלָיו כְּדֵי לְהַרְבּוֹת בּוֹ מַיִם:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
בזמן שלא נתכוין לרבות (at the time that he did not intend to add to more [drawn] water) – it is referring to the Mikveh, that he didn’t intend to add to it in order to increase its water.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot 3:4:6
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**אֲפִלּוּ קֹרְטוֹב.** שִׁעוּר מֻעָט, אֶחָד מִשִּׁשִּׁים וְאַרְבָּעָה בַּלֹּג:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
אפילו קרטוב – a small measurement, one sixth-fourth of a LOG.