Commentary for Makhshirin 1:5
הַמְמַחֵק אֶת הַכְּרֵישָׁה, וְהַסּוֹחֵט שְׂעָרוֹ בִּכְסוּתוֹ, רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר, הַיּוֹצְאִין בְּכִי יֻתַּן, וְאֶת שֶׁבּוֹ אֵינָן בְּכִי יֻתַּן, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁהוּא מִתְכַּוֵּן שֶׁיֵּצְאוּ מִכֻּלּוֹ:
[If] one squeezes a leek or wrings [water] from his hair with his clothing, Rabbi Yose says: The [water] that emerges achieves <i>BeKhi Yutan</i> but what [remains] in it [that subsequently emerges] does not achieve <i>BeKhi Yutan</i> because he intends that all [the water] should emerge from it.
Bartenura on Mishnah Makhshirin
המוחק את כרישה (a person who rubs – the wetness off – the leek) - he presses/squeezes the leek in order that the dew leaves it.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Makhshirin
If one rubbed a leek or pressed his hair or his garment, Rabbi Yose says: the liquid which came out comes under the law of ‘if water be put’, but the liquid that remained does not come under the law of ‘if water be put’, because his intention was that the liquid should come out of all of it. There are two scenarios in this mishnah. In the first he rubs off water that fell onto a leek. The second is that he squeezed out his hair or his garment to get the liquid out of them. According to Rabbi Yose in both of these cases the liquid that comes out of his hair has been separated from its source so it can now cause food to be susceptible to impurity. However, the water that remains on the leek, hair or garment does not make food susceptible to impurity because his intention was only upon the water that would come out. This fits the opinion of Bet Hillel in mishnah two.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Makhshirin
כרישה – leeks in the language of Scripture (see Numbers 11:5, PUROSH in the foreign language, and in Arabic KURAT.
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והסוחט בשערו ובכסותו (and he who wrings out his hair with his garment) – that he was coming on the path and rain fell on his hair and on his garment, and he wrings them out in order that the water would leave.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Makhshirin
ואת שבו – the remaining liquids that fell afterwards on the fruit.
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מתכוין שיצאו מכולן – that he intended to remove from them all the water, but it is was not his intention concerning the remainder. Therefore, it is not fit for Levitical uncleanness, according to the School of Hillel of the beginning of the chapter (see Mishnah 2).
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