צריכים הכשר (that require preparation) – water, as it is written (Leviticus 11:38): “But if water is put on the seed [and any part of a carcass falls upon it, it shall be unclean for you].” (see also Tractate Makhshirin, Chapter 6, Mishnah 4 for the listing of the seven liquids).

ואין צריכין מחשבה – to consider them as food, and all of our Mishnah is explained further on (see Mishnah 2 of this chapter).

החותך מן האדם מן הבהמה מן החיה ומן העופות – all of them are speaking about cutting off flesh from the living creatures, and even though that they were separated from the living, they do not defile, for only a limb a living creature defiles but not the flesh that was separated from a living being, therefore we require intention that he should have in mind upon them for consumption, and if not, they don’t defile.

החלב בכפרים (from fat in the villages) – for the people of villages do not consume fat. Therefore, they require intention. Bu tin the marketplaces, where most of the people come to the market, there are many that eat fats, and they don’t require intention.

ושאר כל ירקות שדה – that are not sown in gardens, are not special/specific for human consumption and require intention.

חוץ משמרקעים (except for truffles/a species of very acrid onions) – a species of pungent onions.

ופטריות (truffles/fungus, morils) – a species of plant that doesn’t have a root. FUNGI in the foreign language.

חוץ מכרישי שדה (except for wild leeks/field leeks) – PUROSH in the foreign language and PORAT in Arabic. That these, even though we don’t plant them in gardens , do not require intention.

והרגילה (purslane) – such is its name in Arabic. And in the foreign language, PORKAKLAH.

נץ חלב (Ornithogalum, star of Bethlehem, a bulbous plant) – white flowers like milk. And there are those who say, grass when they cut it that milk comes out from it.

עכביות (a species of edible thistles, cardoon) – grass filled with thorns, and it is the דרדר/thistle in the language of Scripture, and in the foreign language KARDOSH.

כלוסין (a species of figs) – Maimonides states that we call it in Arabic ANAV ALDIB. But Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Shimon and Rabbi Yossi hold that these do not require intention because they are specific for human consumption. But the Halakha is not like any of them, but rather all of them require intention, and if not, they do not defile.

נבלת בהמה טמאה בכל מקום – whether in the villages or whether in the marketplaces.

צריכין מחשבה – for undefined they are not for consumption.

ואינן צריכין הכשר (and they don’t require preparation) – neither preparation of water nor preparation of a creeping animal/insect [for susceptibility to ritual defilement], for there is no need to have something impure to touch them to defile them, for ultimately they will be impure on their own a grave defilement. And if you should say, it is all right that the carron of a pure/clean fowl and it doesn’t defile other than in the esophagus, it is satisfactory that it requires intention to defile a light defilement. But the carrion of a beast that defiles through contact and through lifting, why do I need intention, for a light defilement, it is an impure body. This manner is answered in the Gemara in the chapter דם שחיטה/The Blood of Slaughter (Chapter 5, Tractate Keritot, folio 21a), as for example, that there is less than an olive’s bulk of carrion, and he attached it to less than an egg’s bulk of food, for whether this one or that one’s an egg’s bulk, and for this reason it requires intention. But nevertheless, it is considered ultimately to defile a grave defilement and doesn’t require preparation, for since it was possible to combine it to be an olive’s bulk.

בשווקים – that there is a majority of the people that come to the marketplace, there are many that eat the carrion of a clean fowl, and consume fats.

אינן צריכין לא מחשבה – for they standing for eating.

ולא הכשר – for the carrion of clean fowl ultimately will defile a grave defilement, that will defile clothing in the esophagus, and regarding fat we are speaking of impure fat, that fat defiles like meat, as we learn further on in our chapter (see Mishnah 9), therefore we don’t require preparation.

רבי שמעון אומר אף הגמל וכו' – they (i.e., the carrion of a camel, a rabbit, a hare and a pig) – do not require intention in the marketplaces, for there are many people who consume them, and this is not like the first Tanna/teacher who stated that the carrion of an unclean beast in every place and didn’t exclude these. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon.

השבת (dill stalk) – a species of vegetable/green, and such is name in Arabic. And in the foreign language ANITO.

משנתן טעמו בקדירה (having given its taste to a dish) – if it was dill of heave-offering, once it gave its taste/flavor to a dish and he removed it from there, a “foreigner” (i.e., non-Kohen) who eats it is not liable, for it is a mere piece of wood.

ואינו מטמא טומאת אוכלים (and does not receive uncleanness as food) – for since it was cooked, its strength and taste have departed and what remains is like a mere piece of wood, and furthermore it is not considered food.

לולבי זרדים (young sprouts of the service-tree – the interior of which is eaten as a relish) – soft branches that come out at the time when the trees blossom. And they pickle them in wine or in vinegar or in water and salt, and consume them.

והעדל (garden-cress, summer-savory) – a species of vegetable similar to the radish.

ועלי לוף (and leaves of wild LOF/a plant similar to Colocasia with edible leaves and root, and bearing beans – classified with onions and garlic) – from the species of onions. And there are of if a species that we call it the לוף שוטה/the wild LOF, LOF trained for the leaves.

עד שימתוקו – for they are not considered edible food other than until after that they pick them and their bitterness leaves them.

פקועות (Bitter-Apple, a gourd) – similar to small watermelons, and they are bitter. But my Rabbis explained, a desert gourd. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon.

הקושט (name of a fragrant root or shrub, putchuck) – such is its name in the foreign language and in Arabic. And it is numbered among the spices of frankincense.

והחמס (amomum, an Indian spice/חמם )- there are those who explained it as an Arabic spice plant/ginger and there are those who explain it as cinnamon.

וראשי בשמים (and the principal spices) – as for example Moscato nut, Nard (aromatic herb, Valerian) and things similar to them, that provide a pleasant smell.

התיאה (root of crawfoot -used as a spice, but poisonous for beasts) – a species of assas foetida (an umbelliferous plant used, as a resin or in leaves, for a spice and for medicinal purposes).

וחלתית (assa foetida) – this is its name in Arabic. But even though its aroma is bad, they regularly put from it in foods.

חלות חריע (lozenges made of bastard saffron) – forest crocus/saffron (one of the ingredients of frankincense). And we call it ALKARTOM in Arabic.

אף הן לא ילקחו בכסף מעשר – For the All-Merciful stated (Deuteronomy 14:26): “and you shall spend the money [on anything you want -cattle, sheep, wine, or other intoxicant, or anything that you may desire.] And you shall feast there [in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household],” a thing that is consumed as it is you purchase with the money of [Second] Tithe, that which is not consumed as it is, you do not purchase with the money of [Second] Tithe. And this is the Halakha, that if it does not receive defilement as food, they are not purchased with the monies of [Second] Tithe.

הפגין (hard/unripe figs)- figs that are not ripe, as it is written (Song of Songs 2:13): “The green figs form on the fig tree.” And all the rest of the produce/fruits also which are not ripe are called פגין.

והבוסר (half-ripe fruit, esp. grapes) – grapes that did not ripen. And when they arrived to become like a white bean, they are called בוסר. And פגין are worse than בוסר.

משיבואו לעונות המעשרות – each and every fruit according to the established time for it to be obligated in tithing, as is taught in the Mishnah in the first chapter of [Tractate] Maaserot (see Mishnah 32). But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yohanan ben Nuri

פריצי זיתים וענבים (the proud among the olives and grapes) – that became hard prior to their ripening, and they are not peeled in the olive press. It is the language of (Daniel 11:14): “and the lawless sons of your people [will assert themselves to confirm the vision, but they will fail],” hard and wicked people. Such are these olives and grapes, hard and they are not peeled nor trodden/pressed.

בית שמאין מטמאין – for they are considered edible/food.

ובית הלל מטהרין – for they are not considered edible/food.

הקצח (black cumin) – NEEL in the foreign language. And it is a black seed, and it is customary to put it on bread, for those who are accustomed to it do not come to have heart pain.

וכן למעשרות – just as they disagreed regarding defilement, so too they argued with regard to tithing, for those who declare them as susceptible to uncleanness as food obligated it for tithing.

קור (white heart or terminal bud of a palm – cabbage tree – used as food) – it is soft wood that is added at the top of a palm. And people consume it, and in the rainy season it becomes bard.

כעץ לכל דבר – and is not susceptible to uncleanness as food.

נלקח בכסף מעשר (and it is purchased through Second Tithe monies)- of the fruit [from fruit] and it grows in the ground.

כפניות (date-berries in their early stage/inflorescence of palms) – palms that did not ripen all the way.

כאוכלים – and they are susceptible to uncleanness as food.

דגים מאימתי מקבלים טומאה – and whenever they are living they are not susceptible to receive defilement.

משיצודו (from when they are caught) – they are considered as dead.

אם יכולים לחיות – that if he would return them to the water they would live, they don’t defile. But if they are not able to live when they return them to the water, even though they still had not died, they are susceptible to receive ritual defilement. And the Halakha is according to the School of Hillel.

יחור של תאנה שנפשח (a young shoot of a fig tree that was stripped/split) – a branch of the a fig tree and there are figs on it, that had been detached and separated from the place of their connection, but that there remained from its skin and it is attached with the husk/skin/bark of the tree alone.

ר' יהודה מטהר – those figs that are on the branch, if the defilement came in contact with them, they are considered as attached, since the branch is attached slightly, and even though it is not attached other than with a skin/husk.

וחכמים אומרים אם יכול לחיות – if they will tie and attach the branch with the tree, the branch will live and produce fruit, and it is considered as attached and pure. But if it will not live when they retie it with the tree, the figs that are on the branch are considered like they are detached and are susceptible to receive defilement. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.

חלב בהמה טהורה – that became ritually forbidden by unskillful slaughtering,

is pure from the defilement of carrion, as it is written (Leviticus 7:24): “Fat from animals that died or were torn by beasts may be put to any use, [but you must not eat it],” which implies even Holy Service.

לפיכך הוא צריך הכשר – and since that it will not ultimately become a heavy defilement, for this, we hold in the first chapter of [Tractate] Taharot [Mishnah 3), for everything that ultimately doesn’t defile in a grave manner, that is to defile a person and vessels, requires preparation.

חלב בהמה טומאת נבלות – for the Torah did not purify other than the fat of a ritually pure animal that became forbidden by unskillful slaughtering, which excludes the fat of an unclean animal which lacks being torn apart [by a beast of prey], because its being torn and its slaughter are equivalent.

ואין צריך הכשר – for defilement of food if he combined less than an olive’s bulk with less than an egg’s bulk, as explained above (Mishnah 3), but intention is certainly required, for something regarding meat requires intention as is taught in the Mishnah above (Mishnah 3).

וצריך מחשבה בכפרים - but not in the marketplaces [for unclean fish and locusts]. But preparation is required in every place.

כוורת דברים וכו' – if it (i.e., the beehive) is attached with plaster, everyone admits/agrees that it is like land/real estate (i.e., the ground) for all things, but if it was placed on pegs, everyone admits that is like vessels. But they didn’t disagree other than when it is placed on the ground and is not attached with plaster.

ר' אליעזר אומר הרי היא כקרקע – and it is acquired by money, a document or a claim of undisturbed possession like land/real estate (i.e., the ground) .

וכותבין עליה פרוזבול – a document that the Jewish court writes to the lender/creditor that transferred to them every debt that he has [to collect’ – so that the Seventh Year would not cause a cancellation of the debt, and we don’t write a Prozbul (i.e., a declaration made in court, before the execution of a loan, to the effect that the law of limitation by the entrance to the Sabbatical Year shall not apply to the loan to be transacted) other than on land/real estate, meaning to say, that when the borrower has real estate/land and he has a beehive, it is similar to land/real estate, and we write upon it a Prozbul [document] to the creditor.

ואינה מקבלת טומאה במקומה – for it is like it would be attached and is not susceptible to receive ritual defilement.

והרודה – from the honeycombs that are within it on the Sabbath, he is liable for a sin-offering, like someone who detaches something from the place where it is attached, as it is written (I Samuel 14:27): “And he (I.e., Jonathan) dipped it into the beehive of honey [and brought his hand back to his mouth and his eyes lit up], but what connection has the forest with honey, but rather just as the forest, he who plucks/detaches from it on the Sabbath is liable for a sin-offering, even honey that one removes [from the beehive]] on the Sabbath is liable for a sin-offering. (This Bartenura to Tractate Shevi’it, Chapter 10, Mishnah 7 adds that the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eliezer).

מאימתי ממיטמאות משום משקה – for that which is undefined exists for consumption, and from when does it become susceptible for ritual defilement for liquids to become first-degree of ritual defilement. (See also Tractate Makhshirin, Chapter 6, Mishnah 4 which defines the seven liquids that make foods susceptible for ritual impurity – and Tractate Bava Batra 9b where a Baraitha is brought indicating the honey in a beehive becomes susceptible for ritual impurity without intention – and that as long as the honey is in the beehive, it is considered as food and not liquid. There is a dispute between the Schools of Shammai and Hillel in this Mishnah about when the transition takes place.)

משיחרחר (he sets the twigs on fire for driving out the bees/smokes the bees out) – when he brings smoke and smokes it out to drive away the bees. It is the language of לחרחר ריב/to stir up strife. That it appears as if he wants to stir up strife with the bees. Another explanation of מישחרחר, that he heats them up in order to remove their honey, even though they honey has not yet left. It is the language of (Jeremiah 6:29): “The bellows puff.” And there are those who have the reading "מיהרהר"/from when he will conceive in his mind, meaning to say, that he will conceive an intention/thought in his heart to take the honey out of the beehive.

מירסק (from the time you break the honeycomb – to take it out of the hive) – when they want to take the honey out of the beehive, they cut it with a knife and remove the honeycombs and that is ריסוק/crushing.

עתיד הקב"ה להנחיל לכל צדיק וצדיק – he (i.e., Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi) joined this statement to here to inform/announce at the conclusion of the Mishnah of the reward for righteous people who study and fulfill all what is written in the Mishnah.

שלש מאות ועשרה עולמות שנאמר להנחיל אוהיב יש – there is in this Gematria/use of letters for their numerical value/homiletical interpretation based upon the numerical value the following (for the word יש) which is 310, meaning to say that the benefit and satisfaction/contentment that each and every righteous person will have in the World-to-Come will be three-hundred and ten times [greater] corresponding to This World, for this entire world is [at best] only a piece of the three-hundred and ten than what each righteous person will have as an inheritance in the World-to-Come.