Comentario sobre Mikvaot 6:4
הַסְּפוֹג וְהַדְּלִי שֶׁהָיוּ בָהֶן שְׁלשָׁה לֻגִּין מַיִם וְנָפְלוּ לַמִּקְוֶה, לֹא פְסָלוּהוּ, שֶׁלֹּא אָמְרוּ אֶלָּא שְׁלשָׁה לֻגִּין שֶׁנָּפְלוּ:
Con respecto a una esponja o un balde que tenía dentro de ellos tres log [una unidad específica de medición de líquido] de agua [extraída], si caían en una mikvah [que no contiene cuarenta se'ah de agua válida], no se procesan no es válido, porque ellos [los Sabios] solo dijeron "tres troncos que cayeron" [en una mikve incompleta lo invalidan; pero en estos casos, no todos los tres troncos de agua realmente cayeron en la mikve , ya que algunos permanecen dentro de la esponja o balde].
Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot
שהיו בהן שלשה לוגין מים – absorbed and attached to them (i.e., the sponge and/or the bucket), but they are not apparent to the eye, therefore, the Rabbis did not decree that this is not called “that they fell.”
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English Explanation of Mishnah Mikvaot
If a sponge or a bucket containing three logs of water fell into a mikveh, they do not make it invalid, because they have only said: "if three logs fell in." This mishnah is a great example of how some later rabbis read and expound upon statements made by earlier sages. The earlier sages said that if three logs of drawn water fall into a mikveh that doesn't have forty logs of water, they render it invalid. The rabbis of our mishnah say that there must be three actual logs of water that fall into the mikveh, not a sponge or a bucket containing three logs of water. Note that the mouth of the bucket must be thinner than the tube of a water-skin. If not, we are in the situation in mishnah two of this chapter and we consider the two sources to be joined.
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