כל המעורב. חורי המערה – holes that are within the Mikveh/ritual bath. But because most of their immersions are in caves, they call the Mikveh a cave.

כמה שהן – even though they are not they are not perforated like the tube (mouth-piece) of a leather bottle.

עוקת המערה – a hole/indentation that is in the rim/bottom of the cave, its waters are not considered with the waters of the Mikveh that are above them to be kosher/fit to immerse in them, unless there is between them like the tube (mouth-piece) of a leather bottle.

אמר ר' יהודה – Rabi Yehuda does not come to argue but rather to explain.

בזמן שהיא מעמדת את עצמה – when he comes to immerse in the hole/indentation, the hole stands on its own, and the roof that forms a partition/makes a dam between it and the cave does not fall on its own.

אבל אם אינה מעמדת את עצמה – and at the time that the comes to immerse, the roof of the hole/indentation which is at the bottom of the Mikveh falls and the waters of the Mikveh combine with the waters of the hole/indentation.

מטבילין בה כמו שהיא – and even if the incision is not like the tube (mouth-piece) of a leather bottle.

והטבילן הרי אלו טהורים – and even if the moth of the bucket is not wide as the tube (mouth-piece) of a leather bottle. As for example, that the bucket itself is ritually impure and requires ritual immersion, for since that immersion occurs to the bucket, it occurs also for what is inside it.

ואם לא טבל – we have this reading. That is to say, if the bucket is ritually pure and he does not immerse it, that it doesn’t require ritual immersion.

עד שיהו מעורבין כשפופרת הנוד – the utensils that are within it (i.e., the bucket) are not ritually pure until the mouth of the bucket is like the tube (mouth-piece) of a leather bottle.

בזה עשרים ובזה עשרים – kosher water [in the first two Mikvaot]. But in the third [Mikveh] twenty Seah of drawn water.

וטבלו ונתערבו – through their immersions, the water floated/came to the surface and restored a liquid to cleanness by contact or levelling with a clean well and all three joined with each other.

המקואות טהורים – that that which is drawn water. For behold that the two kosher [Mikvaot] combine together and there is here the measure of a Mikveh of forty kosher Seah, and when the drawn water joins with them, that the waters float on top of them on account of those who are immersing, their waters become fit for immersion.

היה השאוב באמצע – on account of that the drawn water interrupts between the two outer kosher waters, the kosher waters do not mix with each other.

המקואות כמו שהיו – that the kosher waters are kosher to conduct water courses into a common bed/to add to the capacity of the ritual bath to complete the forty kosher Seah [of water], but the drawn water are not kosher to add to the capacity of the ritual bath. But even though that the drawn water combines with all of them, they don’t invalidate from adding to the capacity of the ritual bath, for the manner of the conducting of water through a channel that they combined, and did not fall from the utensil to the kosher waters, but what fell from it to each of them was voided in the majority before they fell into the Mikveh.

שהיו בהן שלשה לוגין מים – absorbed and attached to them (i.e., the sponge and/or the bucket), but they are not apparent to the eye, therefore, the Rabbis did not decree that this is not called “that they fell.”

השידה והתיבה (the safe/box and the chest) – large utensils made of wood and they are placed within a Kosher mikveh.

אלא אם כן היו נקובים כשפופרת הנוד – it is similar to a cavity/pit that we stated above (see Tractate Mikvaot, Chapter 6, Mishnah 1) that it needs to be perforated like the tube (mouth-piece) of a leather bottle (i.e., stopper of a waterskin).

בכלי גדול – as for example, where the surface is nine handbreadths or more, for its minority is for four handbreadths, it is sufficient with a perforation of four handbreadths. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

שק או קופה (sack or a basket) – a basket made from sprouts/offshoots of a peeled willows.

מטבילין בהן כמו שהן – if they are in the ocean. But they don’t require a perforation like the tube (mouthpiece) of a leather bottle (i.e., stopper of a waterskin), for all of them are filled with holes and the water in them is voided as regards the water of the Mikveh.

אינן פוסלין את המקוה – because of drawn water.

ומעלין אותן כדרכן (and bring them out in the ordinary way) – as for example, in a Mikveh that has in it forty Seah defined exactly as we state further on (see Tractate Mikvaot, Chapter 7, Mishnah 6) regarding a cushion or mattress of leather, since he lifted up their rims/lips from the water, the water within them is [considered] drawn [water]. How should he do it? Immerse them and raise them through their rims at the bottom of the vessel, for we are not concerned about a sack or a basket, for the water that is within them is not considered drawn water to invalidate the Mikveh.

עירוב מקואות – a Mikveh that is lacking [a certain amount of kosher water] that is at the side of a complete (i.e., full) Mikveh. Or alternatively, in this one (i.e, Mikveh) are twenty Seah and in that one are twenty Seah and the water intermingles through an incision or a perforation, its measure to combine them and to make them fit/kosher is as if each one has forty Seah.

כשפופרת הנוד כעוביה וכחללה (like the mouth-piece of a leather bottle in its thickness and its empty space/capacity) – of a reed that they place in the mouth of the tube. And that is like two fingers that return to their place, turning themselves around in the space in the cavity of the incision. And the two fingers that they mentioned are the two fingers adjacent to the thumb, the first ones that are in the palm of the hand, and that is a finger (i.e., index finger) and a cubit (i.e., middle finger -used to measure the cubit from the person’s elbow).

מפני שהיא מן התורה – the obligation of immersion in a Mikveh of water (see Genesis 1:10). It is from the Torah.

וכן כזית מן המת – there is doubt if they have according to the measurement and doubt if they don’t have according to the measurement, their doubtfulness makes it impure. And especially in the private domain, but in the public domain, their doubtfulness makes it pure. But even though that even according to the rabbis a doubtful of [ritual] impurity in the private domain, its doubt [makes it] impure, nevertheless, here, if these were the measurements of the Rabbis, we would purify it.

כל שיעמוד – whether dust whether stones whether red insects found in liquids (i.e., gnats) that grow in the water, if they stand on the mouth of the incision, it diminishes the mouthpiece of the leather bottle, and the Mikvaot/ritual baths do not mix/combine.

כל שהוא מבריית המים – as for example red insects found in liquids (i.e., gnats). But the Halakha is not according to Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel.

העליון מן התחתון – as for example, that the upper [Mikveh] had drawn water and the bottom [Mikveh] had kosher/fit water.

והרחוק מן הקרוב – but we ae not concerned lest a person come and he stopped/interrupted the contact between liquids [so that the water of the ritual bath comes in contact with the impure water], and has immersion did not have any effect for him.

מביא סילון של חרס או של אבר (brings a pipe of earthenware or lead) – and the same law applies of wood or of bone or of glass. אבר – lead.

ומניח ידו תחתיו – of the pipe in order that the water does not go outside when he fills it until the time when the waters come in contact and combine with the other [pure] Mikveh.

אפילו כשערה – and they (i.e., the Rabbis) were lenient regarding drawn water which is Rabbinical. But if the upper [Mikveh] was lacking from its measure and he comes to make it fit through contact with the waters [of the lower Mikveh] to complete it to its appropriate measure, it is not enough with contact as much as a hair’s breadth, for even Rabbi Yehuda who is more lenient in the second chapter of [Tractate] Gittin [16a] as he requires moist enough to moisten other objects.

ממלא בכתף – that since after there are forty Seah of fit/kosher water in the Mikveh, even all of the drawn water in the world does not invalidate it.

לשתי – from above to below.

לערב – from right to left.

חלוף הדברים – from above to below, it doesn’t combine, from right to left, it does combine. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

נפרצו זה בתוך זה – that is from above at the top of the wall. And specifically when the wall is split/chipped off or perforated but above at its top it is whole, is where we require like the mouth-piece of the leather bottle, but when the wall is broken through at its top and the waters combine there, it is sufficient like the thickness of a garlic peel or like the width of the mouth-piece of a leather bottle.

האביק שבמרחץ (a pot in the bath-tub to which a waste-pipe is attached) – a sunken metal utensil in the bath-tub/bathing reservoir and it has in it a perforation/hole, that when the waters of the bath-tub/bathing reservoir become detestable on account of the immersions, they open the incision/hole that is in the pot and the water that is in the bath-tub/bathing reservoir goes out ,and channels to it other clean water and they stop up the hole so that the waters won’t go out, and the waters are channeled/flow into the bath-tub/bathing reservoir are kosher/fit for ritual immersion, for after they washed in warm waters, they enter into the bathing reservoir and immerse there.

בזמן שהוא באמצע פסול – because all the dragged along waters are upon it, and there aren’t drawn waters here but rather what is within it. But the rest of the waters are a kosher/fit Mikveh adjacent to the drawn waters,

but drawn waters at the side of kosher/fit waters do not invalidate, and even though they come in contact one with the other.

אם מקבלת האמבטי רביעית – kosher/fit waters prior to their reaching the pot in the bath-tub to which the waste pipe is attached, it is as if it received forty Seah, for the one-quarter of a LOG measurement of Mikveh is according to the Torah to immerse in it needles and water pipes/ducts.

אם מקבל האביק – meaning to say, that since the pot in the bath-tub to which a waste-pipe is attached is made to receive anything, it is ritually impure in any matter that will be, whether in the middle or whether from the side, whether the bath-tub receives a quarter-Log prior to it coming to the pot in the bath-tube to which a waste-pipe is attached or whether it doesn’t receive anything.

המטהרת שבמרחץ (the water pipe/filter of a bath/gutter) – the troughs/gutters (i.e., grooved stones to receive and carry off the overflow of a well/sink) that are made in a bath that channel to them cold water to rinse them off in order to purify themselves after they washed in hot water, and sometimes they are two troughs one on the side of the other, that the one is higher than its neighbor. And there is a hole in the wall that is between both of them that water goes out from this one to that one.

אם יש כנגד הנקב שלשה לוגין – that the hole/perforation is wide and long like the measurement that three LOGS will enter into it, the upper [Mikveh] is invalidated on account of the drawn water that is in the lower one, for it is considered as if the water that corresponds the cavity of the hole are drawn in the middle of the upper [Mikveh], not from the side, and three LOG of drawn water invalidate when they are in the middle, even though they do not invalidate from the side. And the remarkable thing is what it (i.e., the Tanna/teacher of our Mishnah) took that the bottom one is drawn water, and the upper one is fit/kosher water, for it is the manner of water to descend and it is not the manner of water to ascend, but nevertheless, the upper [Mikveh] is invalidated. And all the more so, that it (i.e., the Mikveh) is invalidated when the kosher/fit is to side of the lower one.

כמה יהא בנקב – now it comes to teach us what is the measurement of the hole/incision that three LOG [of water[ came out from it at one time.

אחד משלש מאות ועשרים בבריכה – that three LOG are 1/320th [it needs to say from forty Seah]. How so? The Seah is six KAB, and the KAB is four LOG, it is found that forty SEAH are nine hundred and sixty LOG. Thus three LOG are 1/320th part of a pool, meaning to say, that in a kosher Mikveh of forty Seah, and the Sages estimated the measurement of a Mikveh that holds forty Seah, a cubit by a cubit at the height of three cubits, for the measurement of the hole/incision that holds three LOG is 1/320th from a cubit by a cubit at the height of three cubits that hold forty Seah. And Maimonides wrote, that if the pool was less or more than forty Sea, we calculate the hole/incision at less or more according to this calculation, as for example, if the pool had twenty Seah [of water], the hole must be 1/160th in size.

אפילו התחתון מלאה כשרים והעליונה מלאה שאובין – that it is the manner of water to descend, nevertheless, three LOGS of drawn water that are in the hole do not invalidate the lower [Mikveh].

שלא אמרו אלא שלשה לוגין שנפלו – for the drawn water does not invalidate the Mikveh until it falls itno it. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yossi.