Commentaire sur Mikvaot 6:4
הַסְּפוֹג וְהַדְּלִי שֶׁהָיוּ בָהֶן שְׁלשָׁה לֻגִּין מַיִם וְנָפְלוּ לַמִּקְוֶה, לֹא פְסָלוּהוּ, שֶׁלֹּא אָמְרוּ אֶלָּא שְׁלשָׁה לֻגִּין שֶׁנָּפְלוּ:
En ce qui concerne une éponge ou un seau qui contenait trois bûches [une unité spécifique de mesure du liquide] d'eau [tirée], s'ils tombaient dans un mikva [qui ne contient pas quarante se'ah d'eau valide], ils ne rendent pas il est invalide, car ils [les Sages] ont seulement dit "trois bûches tombées" [dans un mikvé incomplet l' invalident; mais dans ces cas, les trois bûches d'eau ne sont pas toutes tombées dans le mikvé , car certaines restent à l'intérieur de l'éponge ou du seau].
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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