Commentary for Tahorot 9:3
נִגְמְרָה מְלַאכְתָּן, הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ מֻכְשָׁרִין. נָפְלוּ עֲלֵיהֶן מַשְׁקִין, טְמֵאִין. הַמֹּחַל הַיּוֹצֵא מֵהֶן, רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר מְטַהֵר, וַחֲכָמִים מְטַמְּאִין. אָמַר רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן, לֹא נֶחְלְקוּ עַל הַמֹּחַל הַיּוֹצֵא מִן הַזֵּיתִים, שֶׁהוּא טָהוֹר. וְעַל מַה נֶּחְלְקוּ. עַל הַיּוֹצֵא מִן הַבּוֹר, שֶׁרַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר מְטַהֵר, וַחֲכָמִים מְטַמְּאִין:
Once their work is finished they are thereby primed [for impurity]. If [impure] liquids fell on them, they are impure, and the sap that emerges from them, Rabbi Eliezer declares pure, and the Sages declare impure. Rabbi Shimon says: They do not differ regarding the sap that emerges from the olives, that it is pure. And regarding what do they differ? Regarding that [sap] which comes out of the vat [after the oil has been removed], which Rabbi Eliezer declares pure, and the Sages declare impure.
Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
נפלו עליהן משקין טמאין – after the work of preparing them is completed and they are susceptible to receive ritual defilement, all of the olives are ritually impure and even those that the impure liquids did not touch, for the liquid that exudes from them after the work of preparing them is completed for through it, they became susceptible to receive ritual defilement he combines with those impure liquids and receives defilement from them, and afterwards they defile all of the rest of the olives.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot
When their preparation is finished behold they are susceptible to uncleanness. If an unclean liquid fell upon them they become unclean. Once the preparation of the olives has been completed, they are susceptible to impurity for they have had contact with the sap that flows out of them. What this means is that if unclean liquid falls on them, it renders all of the olives impure, not just the place it touched. This is because the independent olives have now become one lump of olives, all connected to one another.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
המוחל היוצא מהן – (the thin secretion/sap that exudes from them) from the olives whose work of preparing them has been completed.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot
The sap that issues from them: Rabbi Eliezer says it is clean, But the sages say that it is unclean. Rabbi Eliezer disagrees with the opinion in section one. The sap that issues from the olives does not render them susceptible to impurity. It is not yet considered oil. The sages agree with section one. This sap renders them susceptible and once they are impure it will also defile other olives.
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ר' אליעזר מטהר – for he (i.e., Rabbi Eliezer) does not consider the thin secretion/sap a liquid neither to make susceptible the seeds [to receive ritual defilement] and not to receive defilement like the rest of the liquids (see Tractate Makhshirin, Chapter 6, Mishnah 4).
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot
Rabbi Shimon says: they did not dispute the ruling that sap that issues from olives is clean. But about what did they dispute? About that which comes from the vat: That Rabbi Eliezer says is clean And the sages say is unclean. Rabbi Shimon gives another version of the debate found in sections one and two. According to Rabbi Shimon, all of the sages agree that the sap that comes forth from the olives does not render them susceptible. They disagree about the liquid that comes out of the vat. The olives are placed in this vat after they have been crushed and before they are to be squeezed. This sap contains some oil and therefore the sages say it makes them susceptible to impurity. But the sap that flows before they have been placed in the vat is not "oil" and does not make them susceptible.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
וחכמים מטמאין – for the thin secretion/sap is considered a liquid whether to make susceptible [to receive ritual defilement] or whether to defile when it exudes from the olives after the work of preparing them is completed.
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המוחל היוצא מן הבור – after they remove the oil from the cistern, there remains a thin secretion/sap on the floor of the cistern like water, and as Rabbi Shimon states that it is upon this that Rabbi Eliezer and the Rabbis disagree, Rabbi Eliezer does not consider it liquid, but the Rabbis hold that since it is not possible to have a thin secretion/sap on the floor of the cistern without dilution of oil, it is considered liquid like the oil. And the Halakha is according to the Sages, and like the first Tanna/teacher [of the Mishnah] and not like Rabbi Shimon explained it.
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