Das Haus ist eine Schöpflöffel zerfallener Leiche, die in einem Haus verstreut war. Es ist unrein. Aber Rabbi Shimon erklärt es für rein. Ein Revi'it [spezifische Volumeneinheit] von Blut, das in [dem Boden] eines Hauses absorbiert wurde. Das Haus ist rein. Wenn es in einem Kleidungsstück absorbiert wurde: Wenn das Kleidungsstück gewaschen wird und ein Revi'it Blut daraus austritt , ist es unrein, wenn nicht, ist es rein, da alles, was absorbiert wird und nicht herauskommen kann, rein ist.
Bartenura on Mishnah Oholot
מלא תרווד רקב (ladleful of corpse mold) – that we stated above at the beginning of Chapter Two [Mishnah 1] that it defiles in a tent.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Oholot
If a ladleful of corpse-mold was scattered about in a house, the house is unclean But Rabbi Shimon declares it clean. In 2:1we learned that a ladleful of corpse mold causes impurity in an ohel. The sages say that even though the mold was mixed in with the dust and dirt of the house, as long as the requisite quantity of corpse is found, the house is unclean. Rabbi Shimon, however, holds that since there is a mixture of corpse-mold and dust, the house is clean.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Oholot
שנתפזר לתוך הבית – and it was combined with whatever an amount of dust.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Oholot
If a quarter [of a log] of blood was absorbed in [the ground] of a house, the house is clean. The sages agree that if blood is mixed in with the ground of the house, the house is clean. As we shall learn in section three, if blood is absorbed in something from which it cannot be expelled, the blood no longer transmits impurity.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Oholot
ור' שמעון מטהר – he holds that its end is like its beginning, that just as at its outset if the corpse is buried in burial shrouds or in a wooden casket/bier, it has no mass of earth from a grave containing parts of a decayed human body/רקב, for we require that there will be nothing folded/rolled with him, even its end, after it had become became a mass of earth from a grave containing parts of a decayed human bod, if something else combined with hi it doesn’t defile. But the Halakah is not according to Rabbi Shimon.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Oholot
If it was absorbed by a garment: if the garment is washed and a quarter [of a log] of blood emerges from it, it is unclean, if not, it is clean, since anything absorbed that cannot emerge is clean. The purity of the garment into which the blood has been absorbed depends on whether the blood can be removed from the garment. If it can be removed by laundering the garment, then the garment does not defile in an ohel. However, the garment itself is impure because it came into contact with a quarter of a log of blood. As far as how one can test if a quarter of a log of blood came out of the garment, one would take a measured amount of water and launder the garment in it. Then he would bring the same measure of water, less a quarter of a log, and put in that water a quarter of a log of blood. If the water looks the same, then a quarter of a log emerged. If the water that was used for laundering has less of a red color, then the garment with the blood does not defile in an ohel.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Oholot
אם מתכבסת הכסות ויוצא ממנה רביעית דם – and how do we measure it? He brings water in a measure and washes it, and he brings other water according to that measure and places in it a quarter [of a LOG] of blood. If their appearance is equivalent, this is defilement, but if not it is ritually pure.
