שק שהוא מלא. מעלות המערה – that is filled with water.

כל ששאבו (all that absorbed) – the fruit from the moisture of the water, therefore, it is [under the law of] “when water is put on” (Leviticus 11:38), for it is satisfactory for him that the fruit absorbs from the water, and through this, they appear thick and swollen.

רבי יהודה אומר כל שהוא כנגד המים וכו' (Rabbi Yehuda says: Whatever is over against the water) - But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

חבית (jar) – of earthenware or soft stone vessel that is like earthenware. But the rest of the vessels that did not observe so much until the fruit that are within them absorb.

שאבו – the fruit became moistened and liquid was dripping on them. This is our reading.

ושאר כל המשקין טהורים – the rest of the seven liquids (see Tractate Makhshirin, Chapter 6, Mishnah 4: milk, [olive] oil, honey, blood) that make something fit to become susceptible for receiving Levitical uncleanness, the fruits are ritually pure that are within the jar if they were moistened by them. For specifically water and wine and vinegar which are thin and clear, they are absorbed in the jar because of their thinness and the fruit absorbs [liquid] from them. But [olive]oil, honey, milk and blood and dew, are thick, and because of their thickness they are not able to be absorbed within the vessel so much until the fruit that is within the jar absorbs from them. Therefore, they are not [included] in “when water is put on” (Leviticus 11:38).

שאין הקטנית שואבת – as for example, split beans and beans and things like them. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Nehemiah.

הרודה – that was kneaded in fruit juice but was not made susceptible to receive Levitical uncleanness.

רבי מאיר מטמא – meaning to say, the bread is made fit to receive Levitical uncleanness on account of the wine that was absorbed in it. Alternatively, if the wine was impure/unclean, Rabbi Meir declares it impure on account of the impure wine that was absorbed in it (i.e., the bread).

ר' יוסי מטהר בשל חטים – and the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yossi.

המרבץ את ביתו (he sprinkles his house) – he sprinkles water in it in order that the dust should not rise up.

וטננו (and the wheat grew prepared for grinding) – it became moistened. It is the language of moist and fat soil, that its explanation is a moist field in the first chapter of [Tractate] Moed Katan [6b].

אם מחמת הסלע – a rock from the Six Days of Creation, and it is the floor of the house and through this, the wheat became moistened.

המטנן בחול (one who prepares [fruit] by mixing with sand) – he who prepares fruit in sand in order that he can moisten it, that is to say, that they will be moistened, that they will receive from the moisture of the sand.

הרי זה בכי יותן – for there is no sand without water.

נגוב – dry.

אינו חושש שמא נתן בה חטים וטננו (and he does not scruple lest he put it in grains of wheat and they grow damp) – this is what he said: If he placed on it is wheat, he does not feel pain lest they were moistened.

כשהטל עליהם – as for example, that he would lease it for his work and he harvested the grasses with the dew that was upon them. But he did not intend because of the dew.

להטן בהם חטים – to hide with wheat with them in order that they can be moistened.

אם נתכוין לכך – for the dew that is upon them.

אי אפשר שלא לשמוח – for he would be delayed there in order that rain should fall upon them.

פקק הצנור (he stopped up the waterspout) – he closed up the waterspout in order that the water would not come out.

או אם חלחל לתוכו (or if he washed olives by rolling them in the rain water) – he shook and stirred the olives in the water that within the water spout. For Rabbi Yehuda holds that one’s intention does not have an effect to make it fit for Levitical uncleanness until he performs an act to reveal the thought that is in his heart. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

אם הפך השקים (if he turned over the sacks) – to one side, in order the water would hasten to enter from both sides, then they would be fit for Levitical uncleanness.

אם עמד והדיח – if he stood in the water to rinse off the feet of his animal, then the water makes fit for Levitical uncleanness of [those animals] that ascend by their feet if [water] fell on the fruit.

באדם ובבהמה טמאה – they make fit for Levitical uncleanness the waters that come upon their feet, whether he rinsed them or whether he did not rinse them. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

המוריד את הגלגלים – wheel of His [Divine] Chariot (see Ezekiel, chapter 1), we translate in Aramaic, the wheels of the chariot with horses.

בשעת הקדים - at the time of the heat, the eastern wind blows, and it is the manner of wooden vessels that they split/break because of the heat, and we bring them down to the water and the splits are attached. That is, they are tightened/wedged in, like squeezed in/pressed in, that is to say, in order that they can be pounded together and that the splits are attached to each other.

הרי זה בכי יותן – the waters that are raised in them make fit the seeds to receive ritual defilement, for it is satisfactory for it that these waters are suspended in a vessel to fasten the splits.

בשעת היחף (at the season of foot sores [of animals or of threshing]- that the animal is weary and tired from the trouble of the path. And similar at the time when it is threshing in the grain, the water that she brings up upon her feet always makes the seeds fit to receive ritual defilement because they are intentional, for the waters are good for her to cool her off and to make her cold. Another explanation: At the time of foot sores and the threshing, at the time of the harvest, he wants that the animal washes its feet in order that they will be clean to thresh the grain.