Si un Selah [unidad específica de peso] de Ma'aser Sheni y de Chulin que se mezclaron, él trae un Selah de dinero y dice: "El Selah de Ma'aser Sheni, donde sea que esté, se convierte en Chulin [al transferir su santidad] en este dinero ", y ordena lo mejor de ellos, y los convierte en Chulin en él, porque dijeron, uno puede hacer Chulin de plata [transfiriendo su santidad] al cobre en una exigencia, y no así seguirá siendo así , sino que uno debe regresar y convertirlos en Chulin [transfiriendo su santidad] a plata.
Bartenura on Mishnah Maaser Sheni
שנתערבו – and he wishes to remove that which is non-sacred produce outside of Jerusalem.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Maaser Sheni
Introduction
This mishnah deals with a case of a sela of maaser sheni and a sela of hullin that gets mixed up and he wants to take the hullin sela out of Jerusalem.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Maaser Sheni
מביא בסלע מעות – of copper which have on them a form/shape, that are worth a silver Sela.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Maaser Sheni
A sela of maaser sheni which was mixed up with a sela of hullin, one may bring copper coins for the sela and say: “Let the sela of maaser sheni wherever it may be, be exchanged for these coins.” After the coins are mixed up, he can declare that one of the coins is exchanged for an equivalent value of copper coins.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Maaser Sheni
ובורר את היפה שבהן – that are on the two Selas, and he redeems these monies with it (i.e., the better of the two) and redeems these coins for it, and the second Sela and the rest of the monies are non-sacred.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Maaser Sheni
Then he must select the better of the two selas, and change [again] the copper coins for it. Then he takes the better of the two selas and redeems the copper coins for this sela. In this way he has transferred maaser sheni from one of the two selas to the copper coins and then back to the better sela. The better sela ends up being maaser sheni and the copper coins and the worse sela are hullin.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Maaser Sheni
מדוחק – when he is pressed and he cannot do it in another way.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Maaser Sheni
For they have said: one may change silver for copper [only] in case of necessity, and not to leave it so but to change it again for silver. The mishnah explains why he can’t simply exchange the copper coins for one of the selas and be done with it. Also, why can’t he exchange one silver sela for another? Why does he have to bring copper coins to exchange for the silver sela? The mishnah teaches that changing silver to copper is allowed, but only if there is no other way to solve the problem. By implication, changing silver coins for other silver coins is never allowed. And even when he is allowed to change copper for silver, he can only do so temporarily as soon as he has done so he must change the copper back for silver.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Maaser Sheni
ולא שיתקיים כן – and the copper monies should remain as [Second] Tithe, but he goes back and redeems them for silver. And if a difficulty arises and for what does he bring monies for a Sela, he should take one of the Selas that were combined and say: If this is of [Second] Tithe, it is well, and if not, the second which is of [Second] Tithe will be redeemed for it. And if one of them is permitted for him to purchase and to make a condition, we are suspicious that perhaps he will come to take one of them without a condition made on it.
