[If] one shakes a tree in order to detach food from it, or to dislodge an impure object, that does not achieve <i>BeKhi Yutan</i>. [If one acts] to detach liquids, Beit Shammai say: What emerges from it and what [remains] in it [which subsequently falls] achieve <i>BeKhi Yutan</i>. Beit Hillel say: What emerges from it achieves <i>BeKhi Yutan</i>, but what [remains] in it does not achieve <i>BeKhi Yutan</i>, because he intends that all [the water] should emerge from it [the tree].
Bartenura on Mishnah Makhshirin
המרעיד את האילן – he shakes it (i.e., the tree).
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English Explanation of Mishnah Makhshirin
If one shook a tree in order to cause food or something unclean to fall down from it, [the rain water dropping down from it] does not come under the law of ‘if water be put.' Since his intention was not to bring the rain down from the tree, but rather food or something else, such as an impure thing, the water that falls down does not cause produce to be susceptible to impurity. He doesn't want this water to fall down.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Makhshirin
או את הטומאה – as for example that he brought there an unclean raven/crow or an olive’s bulk of from a corpse or a carrion (i.e., an animal that died a natural death) and it remained between the branches of the tree.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Makhshirin
If [he shook the tree] in order to cause liquids to fall down from it: Bet Shammai says: both [the liquids] that fall down and [the liquids] that remain [on the tree] come under the law of ‘if water be put.' But Bet Hillel say: [the liquids] that fall down come under the law of ‘if water be put’, but [the liquids] that remain [on the tree] do not come under the law of ‘if water be put,' because his intention was that [the liquids] should drop down from all the tree. In this case, he shook the tree in order to cause the rain water to fall down. Bet Shammai rules that even the water that remains in the tree now causes produce to be susceptible because he wanted that water to fall down. In other words, even if his intention is not fulfilled, the water still causes impurity because he wanted it. Bet Hillel says that only the water that falls causes susceptibility because in the end, this is the water that he wanted.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Makhshirin
אינו בכי יותן - if on account of this shaking/vibration rain waters fell that were in the tree on the fruit that is underneath it, they were not made fit for Levitical uncleanness.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Makhshirin
היוצאים ואת שבו – liquids that exit on account of the trembling, and liquids that remain on the train and fell afterwards on the fruit are made fit [to receive Levitical uncleanness], they are considered as if they are detached [from the tree].
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Bartenura on Mishnah Makhshirin
מפני שהוא מתכון שיצאו מכולו (because the man intends that they should fall – from the tree – in its entirety) – he intended to remove all the water from the tree, and that which remains did not occur to his mind, and are not made fit [to receive Levitical impurity].
