המעלה פרותיו לגג מפני הכנימה (he brought his produce onto the roof because of vermin) – worms that grow in the produce. It is the language of (Exodus 8:13): “and vermin came upon [man and beast].”

אם נתכוין לכך – that he intended that dew should fall upon them.

שיש להן מעשה – as for example, if they would pour upon them dew intentionally, they would render it fit [to receive ritual defilement].

המעלה את האגודות (if he takes up on the roof bunches – herbs – which had been lying in the market houses) - of vegetables/greens.

ואת הקציעות (figs packed) – they crush the figs in a mortar/mortar-shaped cavity and make them like large loaves, and hey are called קציעות/packed figs.

שימתינו (that they may remain fresh) – it is the language of moisture. And similar to it is found in the Gemara in the chapter "לא יחפור"/One should not dig/hollow out (Chapter 2) [Tractate Bava Batra 18a):"מיתנא קשה לכותלים" (the actual term found in the printed editions of the Talmud is דהבלא /vapor) that is difficult for the walls).

אינו בכי יותן – if dew fell upon them.

כל האגודות – [all the bunches] of greens/vegetables.

של בית השוקים טמאים– because he sellers are accustomed to sprinkle upon them water in order to moisten them and they are made fit to receive ritual defilement, and the hands always handle/touch them. Therefore, they are presumed to be defiled.

מפני משקה הפה – even though that they don’t sprinkle water upon them when they are moist, nevertheless, they regularly put upon them liquid that comes out from the mouth in order to remove the dust that is upon them, and through this they are made fit for [receiving ritual defilement]. But there is a dispute between the first Tanna/teacher and the Rabbi Meir in a place where they do not regularly moisten them with liquid from the mouth; according to Rabbi Meir they are ritually pure, but according the first Tanna/teacher, in every manner they are ritually impure, for even with moist things that they place upon them water. And the Halakha is according to the first Tanna/teacher.

הקמחין והסלתות של בית השוקים טמאים – because they stir/wash the grain in water prior to grinding them and they are made fit [for receiving ritual impurity]. And the hands are always handling/touching them. Therefore, they are presumed to be ritually impure.

החילקה (split grain, grist, grits) - wheat that is pounded and each kernel/stone is divided into two.

טאגיס (mass of groats of wheat, barley) – that each kernel/stone is divided into three parts.

טסגי (pearl barley/barley groats)- each stone/kernel is divided into four parts.

בכל מקום – even not in the house of the market place, for everyone sprinkles water upon them.

חוץ משל מוכרי משקה – because they come in contact with/touch them while the liquid is moist on their hands, but they are not strict on the staining/making palatable by moistening , for their shells (i.e., of the eggs) protect them.

ואם היו מוכרים עמהם פירות יבשים – because they dry their hands in order that they do not soil the fruits,, they dry their hands also prior to their touching the eggs.

כל הדגים בחזקת טומאה – because they are made susceptible [for ritual defilement] in the water, and that which is impure/unclean and that which is pure/clean touches it.

חתיכת האלתות (a piece of a large fish/Iltith)- a species of fish that is regularly sold piece by piece. And there is a place whose name is אלתות/Iltith, and there they hunt it and sell it.

ודג המצרין – a very small fish that they bring from it filled basket in Egypt.

וקולים האספנין (Spanish colias, a kind of tunny fish)- a species of fish whose skin is very soft and they call it אלשביט, and these three species, the water does not make them susceptible [for ritual defilement] like other fish, because they llive a long while after their being hunted, after they are made into food, that is, after their death, we don’t put water upon them, because the water causes loss to them. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

כל הציר בחזקת טומאה – for mere brine that upon which water is put and the hands touch them.

ועל כולם – whether eggs [or] whether fruit [or] whether brine, a common, uneducated person is believed to state that they were not made susceptible [to receive ritual defilement].

מפני שמפקידים אותן – for all the fruit they store them with a common, uneducated person, but if he is not trustworthy/reliable, how can they store them? But fish, they do not store with him, therefore, he is not trustworthy/reliable.

ציר טהור – that it is known regarding it that it was not made susceptible [to receive ritual defilement] through liquids.

שנפל לתוכו מים כל שהוא טמא – for any amount of water makes them susceptible [to receive ritual defilement], and once it is made susceptible, its presumption is that it is impure, for the hands handle them. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Eliezer ben Yaakov

שבעה משקין הן- because it is stated regarding ritual impurity of foods (Leviticus 11:34): “As to any food that may be eaten, it shall become impure if it came in contact with water,” I have [established] only water, from where [do I learn] to include wine and [olive] oil, and milk and honey and blood and dew? The inference teaches us (Leviticus 11:34): “as to any liquid that may be drunk/וכל משקה אשר ישתה",” and if "וכל משקה"/as to any liquid, I might think, mulberry juice, pomegranate juice and the rest of all the fruit juices, the inference teaches us, “[if it came in contact with] water;” just as water is particular that it lacks an epithet, even wine and [olive] oil and milk and honey and blood and dew, lack an epithet, excluding mulberry juice and pomegranate juice and the rest of fruit juices that have an epithet, but bees honey lacks an epithet, for it is called merely honey. And further, we learned in the Tosefta of [Tractate] Shabbat in chapter 9 (Halakhot 24-28): From where do we learn [in the Torah] that blood is a liquid? As it states (Numbers 23:24): “And drink the blood of the slain.” From where [in the Torah] do we learn that wine is a liquid? As it states (Deuteronomy 32:14): “And foaming grape-blood was your drink.” From where [in the Torah] do we learn that honey is a liquid? As it states (Deuteronomy 32:13): “He fed him honey from the crag.” From where [in the Bible] do we learn that [olive] oil is a liquid? As it states (Isaiah 25:6): “A banquet of rich viands/liquid oils.” From where [in the Bible] do we learn that milk is a liquid? As it states (Judges 4:19): “She opened a skin of milk and gave him some to drink.” From where [in the Bible] do we learn that dew is a liquid? As it states (Judges 6:38): “He squeezed the fleece and wrong out the dew from the fleece, a bowlful of water.” From where [in the Bible] do we learn that the tears of the eye are a liquid? As it states (Psalms 80:6): “Made them drink great measures of tears.” From where [in the Bible] do we learn that the water of the nose is a liquid? As it states (Jeremiah 9:17): “That our eyes may run with tears, our pupils flow with water.”

דבש צרעים טהור (hornets’ honey) – that is not considered a liquid, for it doesn’t defile nor does it make susceptible to receive defilement.

ומותר באכילה – that you should not say that since the hornet is the creeping insect of the fowl and it is impure, the honey that comes from it would also be impure, for you might think that I would say that specifically the honey of bees is included by Scripture to be permitted, for it lacks an epithet, but the honey of hornets which has an epithet would not be permitted, it comes to teach us that the honey of hornets is pure and permitted, because of what they said: the honey of bees is permitted because they bring them into their bodies and they don’t furnish it from their bodies, the honey of hornets also brings them into their bodies but does not furnish it from their bodies.

בין גדולים – liquids that come out/exude from the anus/end of the rectum.

בין קטנים – urine.

ודם הקזה לשתיה (letting blood, opening a vein) – the letting of blood [from a vein] that he intended to provide as drink for the animals, and beasts or to the Canaanite [slaves].

מי חלב – this is the whey/curdled milk that is separated from the cheese when they curdle the milk and congeal it in rennet, it makes the seeds susceptible [for receiving ritual impurity].

ומוחל כשמן (and the sap/thin secretion is like oil) – black waters hat come out from the olives.

שאין מוחל יוצא מידי שמן (for the sap is not wholly freed from particles of oil) – and it itself is sap/a thin secretion. According to Rabbi Shimon, it is fruit juice and it is not considered a liquid, but is susceptible [to receive ritual impurity] because of the remnants of oil that are in it.

ר' מאיר אומר אע"פ שאין בו שמן – the sap itself is considered a liquid and it is susceptible [to receive ritual impurity] and it defiles. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Meir.

דם השרץ כשבשרו – and combines like the size of a lentil, as it is written regarding the eight reptiles (Leviticus 11:29-30): “The following shall be impure for you [from among the things that swarm on the earth: the mole, the mouse, and great lizards of every variety; the gecko, the land crocodile, the lizard, the sand lizard and the chameleon],” to include its blood that defiles like its flesh, it is able to make the seeds/semen susceptible [to receive ritual defilement], as Scripture teaches (Leviticus 11:29): “The following shall be impure for you” – it is impure, but it does not make the seeds/semen susceptible [to ritual defilement].

ואלו מטמאים ומכשירים – that they themselves are impure liquids and they defile and make susceptible [to receive ritual defilement] as one..

זובו של זב – as it is written (Leviticus 15:2): “[When any man has] a discharge [issuing from his member,] he is impure.”

ורוקו – (Leviticus 15:8): “If one with a discharge spits [on one who is pure].”

ומימי רגליו – (Leviticus 15:3): “The impurity from [his discharge] shall mean the following –“/"וזאת תהיה טומאתו" – [the word] "וזאת"/and this – to includes urine.

ורביעית דם מן המת – as it is written (Numbers 19: 13): “Whoever touches a corpse, the body of a person [who has died],”/"כל הנוגע במת בנפש האדם" – “the body of a person is a quarter-log of blood, as it is written (Leviticus 17:11): “it is the blood, as life, [that effects expiation]”/"כי הדם הוא בנפש [יכפר]"(note that there is a slight variant in the way the verse is read from what Bartenura writes: "כי הדם הוא הנפש").

ודם נדה – as it is written (Leviticus 15:33): “and concerning her who is in menstrual infirmity”/"והדוה בנדתה" - just as that which flows from her, is impure like her.

שכבת זרע אינה מכשרת – that it is not considered a liquid, and it has the epithet.

דם הנדה אינו מכשיר – a thing that a person with abdominal troubles/piles that he also does not make susceptible [to receive ritual impurity].

דם המת אינו מכשיר – that since he died, his blood has left the category of a liquid. But the Halakha is not according to any one of these Tannaim/teachers, but rather, all of them defile and are susceptible [to receive ritual defilement] according to the first Tanna/teacher [of the Mishnah].

ואלו לא מטמאין – even if they departed/left from that which is impure as for example, from the man with a flux (i.e., gonorrhea) and similar to it, as it is written (Leviticus 15:2): "זובו טמא הוא"/”[when any man has] a discharge [from his member], he is impure” (Bartenura’s commentary writes: "בזובו טמא הוא" which does not exist in that form anywhere based upon my examination of a concordance), he and his discharge/flux are impure, but his sweat nor his ill-smelling moisture/secretion nor his excrement are impure.

והליחה סרוחה – that exits from the abscess, and the same law applies with regard to spittle of an ill-smelling secretion/purulent substance [of a man].

והראי – filthy matter/excrement, like והרעי/excrement.

ודם היוצא עמהם – with the moisture/secretion and the excrement.

ומשקה בן שמונה (and the liquid excreted with a stillborn child at eight months) – all the liquid that came out from the non-viable/premature birth of eight months, as for example, his blood, and his spittle and his urine, for a living eight-month-old baby is like a stone.

חוץ מדמו – that defiles like the blood of a viable child. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yossi.

אע"פ שיוצאים נקיים – that he discharges them [from his bowels] in the path of the privy that are clear like they were when he drank them, nevertheless they do not make susceptible [to receiving ritual impurity], for they exited through the privy.

ר' אלעזר מאמא באלו – for they are considered liquids, and defile and make susceptible [to receive ritual impurity]. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eliezer.

חלב הזכר טהור – for it is not considered liquid. And this is the Halakha.

חלב האשה מטמא – makes it fit/susceptible to receive ritual impurity. But if it (i.e., the milk) was defiled or that the woman was impure, it defiles according to the law of impure liquids that the designation/law of liquids has.

לרצון – that is milked intentionally.

ושלא לרצון – as for example, milk that drips from her breasts.

שאינו מיוחד אלא לקטנים – that unspecified is not considered all that much

שדם מגיפתה טמא (that the blood flowing from a woman’s wound is impure) – the blood that comes out from her wound is impure, for they are compared to the “blood of the slain”/דם חללים (see Numbers 23:24) which is called liquid, for what difference is it to me killing completely or killing [only] half.

שדם מגיפתה טהור – for the blood of an animal is not called “the blood of the slain”, for it is written regarding a human.

סלי זיתים וענבים יוכיחו – for one who presses/wrings them (i.e., olives and/or grapes) out for medical purposes it is impure, but nevertheless, with approval/intentionally are impure, but unintentionally, they are ritually pure. Even the milk, even though that one yields milk for medicinal purposes, it is impure, when it is milked unintentionally/without approval, it is law that it would be pure: and when it is not with approval/unintentional, that which comes out from the olives and grapes is not considered liquid until it comes out with approval/intentionally.