כל מעשה שתחילתו לרצון (a liquid the contact with which is welcome at first) – that it is satisfactory (i.e., rainfall) for it with those liquids, in order that the dish be rinsed or for other usages.

אע"פ שאין סופו לרצון (though finally it may be unwelcome/injurious) – when it fell on the fruit/produce, it was not satisfactory for it, even so it is that which makes it fit to become ritually unclean. Alternatively, it may finally be welcome, when they fell upon the fruit/produce. But at the beginning of their coming, the matter was difficult in his eyes, everything is fit to become ritually unclean.

הרי זו בכי יותן – that is to say, the foods that these liquids fell upon, are made fit to become ritually unclean from here and onwards. For no food is susceptible to receive ritual defilement until water or one of the seven liquids (see Tractate Makhshirin, Chapter 6, Mishnah 4) which are water, wine, [olive] oil, milk, honey, blood and dew, as it is written (Leviticus 11:38): “that if water is put on the seed and any part of a carcass falls upon it, it shall be impure for you; it is written as "יתן" but we read it as "יותן". Just as "יתן"/he will place is satisfactory for it, even something "יותן"/that is placed upon it is satisfactory for it.

מטמאין לרצון ושלא לרצון – since they are impure, their defilement and their fitness to become unclean come together as one, and if they (i.e., one of the seven liquids) fell on the fruit, even not being welcome, they defile them, for we don’t require that it is satisfactory for it but rather, that the liquid comes prior to the defilement, as it is written (Leviticus 11:38): “that if water is put on the seed,” and afterwards “and any part of a carcass falls upon it.” But when the liquid and the defiling agent come together as for example that the liquids are defiled, we don’t require that it is satisfactory for it.

המרעיד את האילן – he shakes it (i.e., the tree).

או את הטומאה – as for example that he brought there an unclean raven/crow or an olive’s bulk of from a corpse or a carrion (i.e., an animal that died a natural death) and it remained between the branches of the tree.

אינו בכי יותן - if on account of this shaking/vibration rain waters fell that were in the tree on the fruit that is underneath it, they were not made fit for Levitical uncleanness.

היוצאים ואת שבו – liquids that exit on account of the trembling, and liquids that remain on the train and fell afterwards on the fruit are made fit [to receive Levitical uncleanness], they are considered as if they are detached [from the tree].

מפני שהוא מתכון שיצאו מכולו (because the man intends that they should fall – from the tree – in its entirety) – he intended to remove all the water from the tree, and that which remains did not occur to his mind, and are not made fit [to receive Levitical impurity].

המרעיד את האילן – to cause its fruit to fall down.

ונפלו על חברו – on another tree. And from that tree, they fell on seeds and on vegetables that are attached to the ground, and liquid drips on those seeds from the water that regularly waters them or from rains that fell upon them.

בית שמאי אומרים הרי הן בכי יותן – for since he would know that these fruits would fall upon those seeds that have water dripping upon them, it reveals his intention that it is satisfactory for him, and the fruit that fell upon those seeds were made fit to receive Levitical defilement.

ובית הלל אומרים אינן בכי יותן - since they did not fall directly from the tree on to the seeds but from the tree to another tree [first].

חלי קופרי – this was his surname.

טבעון – name of a place.

עד שיתכוין – and these since they fell from one tree to another tree or from bush to bus, this is not intention, and he states the reasoning of the School of Hillel.

הנוער אגודה של ירק – as for example, herbs that rain fell upon them, or that water fell upon them unintentionally, and he shakes it in order that the water leaves.

חוששים אנו- in astonishment. Meaning to say, according to your words, we should be concerned also for this (i.e., that the water drops from leaf to leaf).

המעלה שק מלא פירות – that water fell unintentionally and they brought it up and placed it on the bank of the river.

התחתון טהור – that is to say, even the bottom one is pure, and all the more so, the top one.

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.