מקום שהיה רשות היחיד ונעשה רשות הרבים – as, for example a valley, plane, that in the rainy season it is the private domain, and in the days of summer heat it is the public domain.

המסוכן – a person who fainted/swooned and it is not known from him if he is living or dead.

והחזירוהו לרה"י – and there they saw him that he died.

כשהוא ברה"י ספיקו טמא – and we declare him impure, from doubt every person and vessels that were with him in the private domain when he was there at first. But people and vessels that were with him in the public domain after they removed him from the private domain are ritually pure. For it is manner of doubtful defilement in the public domain and his manner of doubt is ritually pure.

ר' שמעון אומר רשות הרבים מפסקת (the public domain intervenes) – since we consider him as living after they removed him from the private domain to the public domain, and we declare ritually pure vessels and people that were with him in the public domain for perhaps he is alive, how can we consider him dead retroactively before he left from the private domain, by force we are not able to defile from doubt a person or vessels that were with him in the private domain originally, since the public domain that they eventually took him out there intervenes and you must consider him as living and purify a person and vessels that were with him. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon.

הטמא עומד – a leper stands underneath the tent or underneath the tree.

וטהור עובר – on the path there, it is doubtful if he touched [the impure leper] or didn’t touch, or it is doubtful if the tent overshadowed him or the tree [overshadowed] over both of them and the ritually pure person was defiled, [and] it is doubtful if it didn’t overshadow and he wasn’t defiled. Or the ritually pure person was standing and the leper was passing. Another explanation, as for example, the creeping animal is in the mouth of the weasel or the carrion in the mouth of the dog passed between the ritually pure individuals or the ritually pure individuals passed between them, the Sages declare ritually pure if there is doubt if he touched or a doubt that he didn’t touch, because the defilement doesn’t have a place, as is taught above in the Chapter "הזורק טומאה" /He who throws defilement [Tractate Taharot, Chapter 4, Mishnah 3] (see also Tractate Negaim, Chapter 13, Mishnah 7). But according to this explanation, if he doubtfully overshadowed or doubtfully did not overshadow, it is impossible to establish to this first clause [of the Mishnah] that the impure person is standing and the ritually pure person is passing by, for regarding the defilement of a tent, there is no distinction between whether there is a place for defilement or whether there isn’t place for defilement, as we proved above in the chapter "הזורק טומאה"/He who throws defilement (Tractate Negaim, Chapter 13, Mishnah 7).

טומאה ברה"י וטהרה ברה"ר – as for example, a store that is open to the public domain, it is doubtful whether he entered or whether he didn’t enter.

ר' יהושע מטמא – for he holds that doubtfully in the private domain and many are engaged with him, we follow after the private domain and his manner of doubt is ritually impure. But the Rabbis hold that we follow after the public domain and his manner of doubt is ritually pure. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehoshua.

עלה לראשו – [he ascended] to the top of the tree, which is considered the private domain.

הכניס ידו לחור שיש בו טומאה – the hole is considered the private domain, and even though the person is standing in the public domain, since he put his hand into the hole, it is like he is standing in the private domain. But although the tree and the hole were not the private domain regarding Sabbath [law], they are the private domain regarding ritual defilement.

חנות שהוא טמא ופתוח לרה"ר – it would the entirety of all of the store is like the defilement that is placed in the public domain, and just as if there was a creeping animal in the public domain, it is doubtful if he touched it, doubtful if he didn’t touch it, his manner of doubt of ritually pure, here also, if he doubtfully entered into this store or doubtfully didn’t enter into it, his manner of doubt is ritually pure. But if there were two stores, one ritually pure and one ritually impure, it is doubtful whether he entered into the impure store or whether he entered into the ritually pure one, his manner of doubt is ritually impure, for it would be him a doubtful defilement in the private domain.

ספק ביאה טהור – because we require something similar to the woman accused of being unfaithful to her husband (i.e., Sotah), for certainly she keeps it secret, but rather if he doubtfully touched it, or doubtful did not touch [the defiling agent], for we don’t know if she was defiled, and the All-Merciful calls her defiled, as it is written (Numbers 5:13): “and she keeps secret the fact that she has defiled herself,” but a case of doubt concerning entry is considered ritually pure.

בקעה – fields belonging to many people, and in the rainy reason when they are plowed and sown, it has the law of being the private domain, because people are careful from walking on the seeds so that they don’t become destroyed.

ר' אלעזר מטהר – for this is for him doubtful entry, and not all valleys are considered like one field, because the fields are divided with their narrow boundaries.

עד שיאמר לא נגעתי – not exactly that he would say it is evident to me that I did not touch it, and the same law applies where there is a matter to compare to him that he didn’t touch it.

שבילי בית גלגול (pathways of a field full of hills and depressions) – a round place that ascends and descends, and most of the people are not able to walk on these pathways.

רשות היחיד לשבת – it is not actually the private domain, but they are a Karmelit (an intermediate domain – between a private domain and a public domain – any open area larger than four square handbreadths that is not a public thoroughfare – including fields, seas, rivers, alleyways and lanes). But why call it a private domain? Because it is not the public domain, as will be taught in the Mishnah shortly, the valley during the dry season is the private domain regarding Shabbat, but it is not actually a private domain, but rather a Karmelit. But now all of these paths are taught in the Mishnah here are the public domain, we are speaking, for example, that they lack three [people] at the time that the doubt emerged, and even here, since many are found there, it is like the public domain. For if there are three [people] at the time that the doubt emerged regarding, even in the innermost of rooms, he is ritually pure, as we derive from the Sotah/the wife suspected of unfaithfulness towards her husband, it is a private domain, because there aren’t there other than two [people], the male initiating intercourse (i.e., the adulterer) and the woman having sexual intercourse.

רשות הרבים לטומאה – for during the dry season many people are found and they go in it to reap and to thresh and to plow the ground, to seed it for the coming year.

בימות הגשמים – that it is sown, a person doesn’t enter into it.

בסילקי (basilica, a building with colonnades for holding courts, meeting place for merchants, exchange) – a large wide street/open place. And this is what we said in Chapter two of [Tractate] Yoma [folio 24b] the chamber of hewn stones was like a large basilica/building with colonnades for holding courts.

ורואה את הנכנסים ואת היוצאים- for when he sees those who enter and those who leave it is considered more a private domain. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

הפרון (a building with a gateway leading from street to street/forum) – it is similar to a basilica. And it has two openings directly opposite each other.

וכן הצדדין – from here and from there to the building with a gateway leading from street to street/forum. It is also considered the public domain, because many use those sides.

ר' מאיר אומר הצצדין רשות היחיד – the middle of the forum alone is made for many people to use and not the sides. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Meir.

האסטוונית (a system of colonnades, colonnade with double rows) – a narrow place like a cubit wide, four or five handbreadths high, standing in front of the stores where the merchants sit there.