[Si] las manos de una mujer son puras y ella agita una maceta impura sus manos [se vuelven] impuras si sudan. [Si] sus manos son impuras y agita una olla pura, la olla [se vuelve] impura si sus manos sudan. El rabino Yose dice: Si [sus manos] gotean [sudor]. [Si] uno pesa uvas en la sartén de una balanza, el vino que está en la sartén es puro [no está sujeto a impurezas] hasta que lo vierte en un recipiente. Esto es similar a las cestas de aceitunas y uvas cuando están goteando [jugo].
Bartenura on Mishnah Makhshirin
המגיסה בקדירה (she stirs the pot) – she turns with a spoon that is in her hand the cooked dish in the pot.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Makhshirin
If a woman whose hands were clean stirred an unclean pot and her hands perspired, they become unclean. We can assume that the liquid on the woman's wet and sweaty hands comes from the liquid in the pot and therefore her hands are unclean.
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אם הזיעה ידיה – from the vapor of the pot, her hands are made unclean/defiled as if she touched the liquid that is in the pot.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Makhshirin
If her hands were unclean and she stirred a clean pot and her hands perspired the pot becomes unclean. Rabbi Yose says: only if her hands dripped. In this case, since her hands sweated due to the heat of the pot, we look at the hot liquid in the pot as if it was connected to the liquid in her hands. Just as the liquid on her hands is unclean, so too the liquid in the pot has become unclean. Rabbi Yose disagrees and doesn't consider the liquid in the pot to be connected to her hands. The liquid in the pot is impure only if the liquid from her hands drops back into the pot.
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היו ידיה טמאות – if her hands sweated, the sweet is defiled on account of her hands and the pot is defiled, because the vapor makes a connection between the sweat that is on her hands to the liquids that are in the pot.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Makhshirin
One who weighs grapes with a balance, the wine in the scale is clean until it is poured into a vessel. Behold, this is like baskets of olives and grapes when they are dripping [with sap]. A person weighs grapes by putting them into a basket on a balance. Some liquid, called here wine although it is not yet wine, drips out into the basket. This liquid is clean and does not cause susceptibility to impurity until it is poured into a vessel. This is because he doesn't want the liquids to come out while the grapes are still being weighed, just as he doesn't want the liquids to come out of olives or grapes while they are still in the basket (we will return to this subject in 6:8).
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Bartenura on Mishnah Makhshirin
ר' יוסי אומר אם נטפו – the pot is not impure unless they dripped a drop at a time from the sweat that is in her hands into pot. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yossi.
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היין שבכף טהור – and it doesn’t make it susceptible/fit [to receive ritual defilement], but it was not considered to be a liquid until he would empty it into the [other] vessel. And it is like he lacks a designation of liquids in regard to susceptibility [for ritual impurity, so also he lacks a designation of liquids regarding defilement and regarding wine poured as a libation.
