One who sells a bathhouse has not sold the boards [on which clothes are placed], the safsalim [benches. Some read it "s'falim" (the basins), where water is placed for washing], and the vilaoth [the door curtain. Some understand it as the cloth with which one sponges himself; and others, as the cloth with which one covers his genitals when sitting in the bath.] If he said to him: "It and all that is in it," all is sold. In either case, he has not sold the reservoirs [feeding the bathhouse] or the stores of wood [for heating the bathhouse.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Bava Batra
הנסרים – boards that we place clothing on them.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Bava Batra
Introduction
Mishnah five discusses what is sold with an olive press and mishnah six discusses what is sold with a bath house.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Bava Batra
הספסלים – that we sit upon them. But there are those who have the reading "ספלים"/bowls or basins – that one puts water in them to wash.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Bava Batra
If a man sold a bath house, he has not sold the planks or the benches or the curtains. But if he had said: “It and all that is in it”, all these are sold also. In neither case has he sold the water containers or the stores of wood. In the first section we learn that when someone sells a bath house, the planks which serve as the floor of the bath house, the benches and the curtains are not included in the sale. Only if he stated that he was selling all that is in the bath house are these items considered part of the sale. In any case the water containers and stores of wood are not considered to be part of the bath house and are therefore not sold with it, even if he stated that he was selling all that is in the bath house.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Bava Batra
וילאות – curtain opposite the opening. Another interpretation: wrapping cloth that one uses to dry off. And there are those who say that it is a petticoat/breach-cloth in which we cover with the genitals when sitting in the bathhouse.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Bava Batra
מגורות של מים – pools that pour water into the bathhouse.
