Commentaire sur Mikvaot 4:2
הַמַּנִּיחַ טַבְלָא תַּחַת הַצִּנּוֹר, אִם יֶשׁ לָהּ לְבִזְבֵּז, פּוֹסֶלֶת אֶת הַמִּקְוֶה. וְאִם לָאו, אֵינָהּ פּוֹסֶלֶת אֶת הַמִּקְוֶה. זְקָפָהּ לִדּוֹחַ, בֵּין כָּךְ וּבֵין כָּךְ אֵינָהּ פּוֹסֶלֶת אֶת הַמִּקְוֶה:
Celui qui place une planche sous un tuyau [de drainage], si elle [la planche] a un rebord, cela rend un mikvé invalide; et sinon, cela ne rend pas un mikveh invalide. Si on la levait [la planche] pour la rincer [sous le tuyau de vidange], de toute façon [qu'elle ait ou non un rebord] cela ne rend pas un mikvé invalide.
Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot
המניח טבלא תחת הצנור (he who leaves a tray/board underneath the spout) – to conduct the water into the Mikveh/ritual bath.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Mikvaot
Introduction
Our mishnah continues to deal with vessels placed under a water-spout and whether the water that flows from the roof, through the spout, into the vessel and then into the mikveh counts as drawn water to disqualify the mikveh.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot
אם יש לה לבזבז (if it has a vertical rim/edge – by which a flat utensil is made into a vessel-lie receptacle) – a rim around from the four directions in order that it will be for it a receptacle).
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English Explanation of Mishnah Mikvaot
One who put a board under a water-spout: if it had a rim to it, it disqualifies the mikveh; otherwise it does not disqualify the mikveh. If the board had a rim to it, then it counts as a vessel. Water that gathers in it is considered drawn water that disqualifies a mikveh. Without a rim it is not a vessel and the water in it does not disqualify the mikveh.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot
פוסלת את המקוה – it would be for them drawn water, and because the spout itself does not invalidate the Mikveh, we are speaking of a spout that was established [first] and at the end, they hollow it/shape it into a receptacle.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Mikvaot
If he made it stand upright to be rinsed, in neither case does it disqualify the mikveh. Here it is 100 per cent clear that he did not put the board under the water-spout to collect water, just to rinse the spout. Therefore, it does not count as drawn water.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Mikvaot
זקפה לידוח (if he set it upright to rinse it) – in order that it should be rinsed from the filth that is in it,
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it does not invalidate the Mikveh/ritual bath, for it doesn’t exist in the manner of its reception.
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