Diez capas [apiladas] una encima de la otra, [si un zav ] dormía en la parte superior, están todas impuras. [Si] un zav estaba en una bandeja de equilibrio y [los objetos se ajustaban a] recostarse o sentarse, estaban en el lado opuesto [pan], si el zav pesaba [su bandeja, empujando así los objetos hacia arriba], están limpiar. Si los objetos pesan [empujando el zav hacia arriba] no están limpios. El rabino Shimon dice, [si hubo] un solo [objeto para sentarse o acostarse] es inmundo, [pero] si hubo muchos, están limpios, ya que ninguno de ellos ha soportado la mayor parte [del peso del zav ].
Bartenura on Mishnah Zavim
עשר טליתות – it the plural usage of טלית/a cloak. But not specifically then, for even one-thousand cloaks and a large stone on top of them, and the person with gonorrhea/the Zav sat upon the stone, all of the cloaks that are underneath it are defiled through sitting, for lying and sitting become defiled underneath a stone used for closing a pit.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Zavim
Ten cloaks one on top of the other, if he sat on the uppermost one, all are unclean. When a zav sits (other versions read sleeps) on a pile of something, all of the things upon which he sat become impure, even though he only touched the upper most one.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Zavim
כרע הזב טהורים – from the law concerning lying, but they are impure through the burden of the person with gonorrhea.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Zavim
A zav who was one one scale of a balance and in the other scale opposite there were objects fit to sit or lie upon: If the zav pushed them up, they are clean. But if they pushed him up, they are unclean. Rabbi Shimon says: if there was one object it becomes unclean, but if there were many they remain clean, since none of them had borne the greater part [of the zav's weight]. In mishnah 2:4 we learned that if another object causes a zav to be lifted up, that object becomes impure. So imagine a huge balance (maybe a seesaw?!) with a zav on one side and on the other side are things that one lies or sits upon. If he lifts them up they do not have midras impurity, because he didn't "lean" on them. However, since he did carry them they do have some impurity, just a lesser degree. If they push him up then he is considered as having leaned upon them, and they are impure. Rabbi Shimon says that if there are multiple objects on the opposite side of the scale, then they have all divided up his weight equally. Since none of them bear the majority of his weight they all remain pure.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Zavim
ביחידי – one bed [used for lying].
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טמא – for the majority of the person with gonorrhea/the Zav is carried/borne upon it.
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ובמרובים – many beds on the scale opposite the person with gonorrhea.
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שאין אחד מהם נושא את רובו – for since they (i.e., the beds) went down, the majority of the person with gonorrhea is not borne/carried on even one of them, but rather, each one of the beds bore/carried a majority of the Zav.
