הבית שנסדק – the roof of the house that was divided on the face of all of it to two parts.

טומאה בחוץ – to the outer side where the opening is.

כלים שבפנים טהורים – for it is not the manner of defilement to enter but only to leave.

ובית הלל אומרים כל שהוא – In the Tosefta (see Tractate Ohalot, Chapter 12, Halakha 1) that “any amount” which is the opinion of the School of Hillel is like the [breadth of the] plumb-line. And the Halakha is according to the School of Hillel.

אכסדרה שנסדקה (a covered place in front of the house that was split) – the ceiling of the portico that was divided into two.

כלים שבצד השני טהורים – for the airspace of the split interrupts, and causes that the defilement does not pass to the second side.

עירב את הטומאה – because the airspace was closed/concealed.

בארץ – on the floor of the portico opposite the split that is in the ceiling.

סגוס (a coarse woolen blanket, mattress to sleep on) - a very thick woolen cloth.

וכוסת – a thick beam. Even though it is high, its thickness is more than a handbreadth.

אין מביאין את הטומאה – if he placed them on the ground opposite the split that is in the ceiling of the portico, unless there is underneath them a cavity of a handbreadth.

קפולין – like a folded cloak/Tallit. Many clothes are folded one upon the other.

עד שתהא העליונה גבוהה מן הארץ טפח – and even though that the clothes are placed underneath it, the upper one brings the defilement, since it is a handbreadth above the ground.

היה אדם נתון שם – on the ground opposite the split.

חלול – avity of the body is considered as a cavity, even though that his intestines are within it.

והאהיל על קוברי המת – that is that he overshadowed over the corpse.

בית שמאי אומרים אינו מביא את הטומאה – The School of Shammai according to its reasoning, that the cavity of is body is not considered an [empty] cavity. Therefore, it does not bring the defilement to the house. But the School of Hillel, according to its reasoning that considers it an [empty] cavity, therefore, even though that his body Is connected to the window, the upper side therein brings the defilements to the house, for there is the cavity of his body that is a handbreadth.

ומודים – The School of Shammai [agrees with the School of Hillel] concerning a person who is dressed.

היה מוטל על האסקופה – part of him was within the house and part of him was outside of the house.

אינו מביא את טומאה – for there is no cavity/empty space [here].

והאהילו עליו טהורים – on part of his body that is outside.

בית שמאי מטהרין – that the defilement that is in the house doesn’t come underneath him.

ובית הלל מטמאין – for they hold that a person is an empty cavity and the defilement comes underneath him, and those that overshadowed upon him outside were defiled.

ומת הכלב – for if it (i.e., the dog) lived, even if all of it was in the house, the house is pure, for absorbed defilement [found] in living creatures is not defilement.

ומוטל על האסקופה – and its neck is inside.

אם יש בצוארו פותח טפח – the width of the neck is a handbreadth. And they estimate it through a thread that surrounds the neck. For everything that is within the width of a handbreadth, there is in its circumference three handbreadths.

מביא את הטומאה – to the upper side that within it (i.e., the dog), it overshadows over the defilement and the defilement and conducts it into the house.

ואם לאו – that there isn’t an opening of a handbreadth.

אינו מביא את הטומאה – that concerning the matter of bringing the defilement we require an opening of a handbreadth.

רבי יוסי אומר רואים את הטמאה – we check the place of the defilement on the body of the dog. If it (i.e., the defilement in the belly of the dog) is from the lintel and inside, the house is impure even though its neck does not have the thickness of a handbreadth, for hidden defilement bursts forth and ascends, and it is found that the house overshadowed over the defilement. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yossi.

פיו לפנים – and the hole of his tail (i.e., the dog’s rectum) is from the outside.

הבית טהור – if the defilement is from the outside. For because of the conducting water through a channel, we do not defile him, for here is no path for the food to leave through its motuh, but rather through the hole in the privy.

פיו לחוץ – and through its lower part of the body/abdomen is on the inside.

הבית טמא – for this is the path of the small opening which was at its conclusion to exit.

בין כך ובין כך – whether its (i.e., the dog’s) mouth is inside or whether its mouth is outside, whether the defilement is opposite the lintel and inside or whether the defilement is outside, whether there is in its neck a handbreadth or whether there isn’t in its neck [the space of] a handbreadth, in every matter the house is impure, for the defilement goes whether through its entrance or whether through its exit.

כמה תשהה – the flesh of the corpse.

במעיו – of the dog prior to the dog dying and further would not defile because it would be considered as consumed.

שלשה ימים מעת לעת – from the time it (i.e., the dog) ate it. As we state in [Tractate Shabbat folio 155b] that it is revealed and known before the Holy One, blessed be He that the food of a dog is small, therefore, it leaves its food remains in its intestines for three days.

בעופות ובדגים – if they (i.e., birds and/or fish) ate from the flesh of the corpse, in order that it fall into the fire and be burned.

ר' יהודה בן בתירא אומר וכו' – And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yehuda ben Beteira.

החדות (the cellar) – like [the word] דות/cellar, that is the same as a בור/cistern, and that is the same as a דות/cellar, but that the בור/cistern is something [made by] digging and דות/cellar is [something made] by building.

ומנורה בתוכה – within the cellar/דות.

והפרח של מנורה יוצא וכפישה נתונה עליו (the calyx/cup of the Menorah projects and its inverted vessel – divided into two compartments by the bottom - is put over it [that it would remain in position]) – we have the this reading. Meaning to say, on the calyx/cup/flower. And the cup/calyx is wide at the top of the Menorah that the candle sits upon it. And the כפישה/inverted vessel is a large basket that they press the olives in it in order to produce shrinking and maturing of the frits by underground storage or by exposure to the sun.

על פי חדות – that doesn’t fall into it.

טהור – that it is preserved with the walls of the tent, as we stated above in Chapter 5, [Mishnah 6].

המנורה טמאה – because of the calyx/flower that protrudes from the cellar, the inverted vessel does not protect it. But if you should say, since the Menorah is impure, how can the cellar be pure? For doesn’t it become defiled like the corpse itself that a sword is like that the slain person? One can say, that we are speaking as for example that there isn’t a corpse in the house but rather the sword that touched/came in contact with the corpse, and through it defiles the house and the Menorah, and we hold that the a vessel does not make another vessel something else as was explained in the first chapter (see Mishnah 2).

אף המנורה טהורה – for we follow after it (i.e., the Menorah) and not its calyx. And it (i.e., the Menorah) is within the cellar exists and is protected with the cellar.

הכל טמא- whether the cell or whether the Menorah, since if you take the Menorah, the inverted vessel falls into the cellar [and everything is unclean].

טומאה שם- within the cellar, even though the inverted vessel is on top of it.

הבית טמא – for there is no airtight fitting lid for defilement.

טומאה בבית – now we are speaking of the open cistern which lacks an inverted vessel divided into two compartments by the bottom between.

טהורים – the vessels [are pure]. Since there is in their place a cubic square handbreadth, that are protected there like a gutter/pipe which is bent/arched over under the house, as is taught in the Mishnah above in Chapter 3 [Mishnah 7] the defilement is in the house and what is within it is pure.

רחבים משל בית (if the walls of the cistern are wider than the walls of the house) – as for example that the cavity of the cistern is broader/extended continuously underneath the wall of the house and the wall of the cistern is built from outside of the wall of the house and the utensils are there.

בין כך ובין כך - even if there isn’t in their place a handbreadth by a handbreadth at the height of a handbreadth, they are pure.