Commentaire sur Makhshirin 4:9
הַמְמַלֵּא בְקִילוֹן, עַד שְׁלשָׁה יָמִים, טְמֵאִין. רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא אוֹמֵר, אִם נִגְּבוּ, מִיָּד טְהוֹרִים. וְאִם לֹא נִגְּבוּ, אֲפִלּוּ עַד שְׁלשִׁים יוֹם, טְמֵאִים:
[Si] une [eau] remplie par un canal d'irrigation [l'eau] est impure [rend la nourriture sensible aux impuretés] pendant jusqu'à trois jours [après]. Rabbi Akiva dit: Si elle sèche, elle est immédiatement pure; et s'il n'est pas séché, il est impur [rend la nourriture sensible à l'impureté] pendant jusqu'à trente jours.
Bartenura on Mishnah Makhshirin
הממלא בקילון (if one draws water with the swipe and bucket for drawing water) – when the water is collected in one place and they (i.e., people) request to bring it to another field, they make for them a path that these waters can come in, and the name of that path that these waters are conducted [in a channel] is called a קילון /swipe and bucket for אם drawing water/duct, and up to three days this swipe and bucket does not dry up from the waters that were conducted/flowing into it, and they make the produce/fruit that fell into it susceptible [for ritual impurity], for these were done intentionally.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Makhshirin
If one drew water through a kilon (a pump-, it causes susceptibility to uncleanness for three days. A "kilon" is a pump-beam used to draw water from a deep well. If produce becomes wet through contact with water in the pump the produce is susceptible for up to three days after the pump has been used. For three days we can assume any water in there that was drawn from the well hasn't dried up and therefore it causes susceptibility. After three days, we can assume that the water pumped from the well dried up and that the water found in there currently came from elsewhere, and does not cause susceptibility.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Makhshirin
רבי עקיבא אומר אם נגבו מיד – Rabbi Akiba does not argue with the first Tanna/teacher, for a mere קילון/swipe and bucket for drawing water does not dry until three days. And the first Tanna/teacher is speaking about a mere קילון/swipe and bucket. But this is found explicitly in the Tosefta (Tractate Makhshirin, Chapter 2, Halakha 9) that Rabbi Akiba admits that with a mere קילון/swape-pipe it is three days.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Makhshirin
Rabbi Akiva says: if it was dried, it at once does not cause susceptibility to uncleanness; but if it was not dried, it causes susceptibility even for thirty days. Rabbi Akiva says that if we know that the kilon was dried, then even if produce comes into contact with water in there immediately thereafter, we can assume that the moisture was not from water drawn from the well. But if the kilon has not been dried, then the assumption is that the water in it was pumped from the well and it will cause susceptibility.
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