Si hay tres troncos de agua [extraída], y un kortov de vino cayó en ellos, y su apariencia es como la del vino, y ellos [esa mezcla] cayeron en una mikve [que contiene menos de cuarenta se'ah ], no lo han invalidado [como aguas extraídas, ya que su apariencia es la del vino]. Si hay tres log de agua menos un kortov , y un kortov de leche cayó en ellos, y su apariencia es [todavía] como la del agua, y cayeron en una mikve , no lo han invalidado [ya que hay aún menos de tres troncos, de agua extraída]. El rabino Yochanan ben Nuri dice: todo sigue a la apariencia.
Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot
ונפלו למקוה לא פסלוהו – for since they appear like wine, and fruit juice does not invalidate [the Mikveh] with three LOG.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Mikvaot
If a kortov of wine fell into three logs of water and its color became like that of wine, and the water then fell into a mikveh, it does not render it invalid. Wine doesn't disqualify a mikveh. Drawn water does. So what do we do with a mixture of the two? According to the mishnah, if the color is like wine, then the water is treated like wine. It is interesting to note that since in the time of the Mishnah people usually drank their wine mixed with water, a cup of wine/water would probably be in their eyes, wine, not water mixed with wine. In other words, if it has the color of wine, its wine.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot
כל הולך אחר המראה – even though the milk does not invalidate the Mikveh and there isn’t in the water a measure of three LOG to invalidate, nevertheless since there are here three LOG that appear like water, we consider them as if they are all water and they invalidate. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yohanan ben Nuri.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Mikvaot
If there were three logs of water less a kortov into which a kortov of milk fell, and their color remained like the color of water, and then they fell into a mikveh, they do not render it invalid. Rabbi Yohanan ben Nuri says: everything goes by the color. In this case, a little bit of milk, which does not disqualify the mikveh, falls into almost three logs of drawn water, which are not quite sufficient to disqualify the mikveh. There are now three logs of what looks like drawn water, but since there are not actually three logs of drawn water, the mikveh is not disqualified. Rabbi Yohanan ben Nuri disagrees with this case. Since the color is that of water, the substance must be treated as water which does disqualify the mikveh. This would make the rule in section two consistent with that in section one.
