Un arbre debout dans un domaine public qui a quelque chose d'impur en lui [c'est-à-dire parmi ses branches], si quelqu'un a grimpé à son sommet, et qu'il est incertain s'il a touché [l'impureté] ou ne l'a pas touché, son incertitude est impure [ie un tel cas d'incertitude est jugé impur]. Si quelqu'un a mis sa main dans un trou contenant quelque chose d'impur, et qu'on ne sait pas s'il l'a touché ou ne l'a pas touché, son incertitude est impure. Une boutique qui était impure et ouverte au domaine public, s'il y a une incertitude quant à savoir si quelqu'un y est entré ou non, son incertitude est pure. S'il y a une incertitude quant à savoir si on a touché [quelque chose d'impur dans un magasin] ou si on n'a pas touché, son incertitude est pure. S'il y avait deux magasins, l'un impur et l'autre pur, et que quelqu'un entre dans l'un d'eux, et qu'il y ait une incertitude quant à savoir s'il est entré dans l'impur ou s'il est entré dans le pur, son incertitude est impure.
Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
עלה לראשו – [he ascended] to the top of the tree, which is considered the private domain.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot
If a tree standing in a public domain had within it an object of uncleanness and a man climbed to the top of it, and a doubt arose as to whether he did or did not touch the object of uncleanness, such a condition of doubt is unclean. The top of the tree is considered a private domain and therefore a case of doubtful impurity that occurs there is ruled unclean.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
הכניס ידו לחור שיש בו טומאה – the hole is considered the private domain, and even though the person is standing in the public domain, since he put his hand into the hole, it is like he is standing in the private domain. But although the tree and the hole were not the private domain regarding Sabbath [law], they are the private domain regarding ritual defilement.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot
If one put his hand into a hole [in the wall] in which there was an object of uncleanness and there is doubt whether he did or did not touch it, such a condition of doubt is unclean. Similarly, the hole is considered to be a private domain.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
חנות שהוא טמא ופתוח לרה"ר – it would the entirety of all of the store is like the defilement that is placed in the public domain, and just as if there was a creeping animal in the public domain, it is doubtful if he touched it, doubtful if he didn’t touch it, his manner of doubt of ritually pure, here also, if he doubtfully entered into this store or doubtfully didn’t enter into it, his manner of doubt is ritually pure. But if there were two stores, one ritually pure and one ritually impure, it is doubtful whether he entered into the impure store or whether he entered into the ritually pure one, his manner of doubt is ritually impure, for it would be him a doubtful defilement in the private domain.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot
If a shop that was unclean was open toward a public domain and there is doubt whether a man did or did not enter it, such a condition of doubt is clean. Although the shop is a private domain, the doubt actually arose in the public domain we don't Therefore, he is pure.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot
If there is doubt whether he did or did not touch anything, such a condition of doubt is deemed clean. Same as section three, except here he may have touched something impure in the store.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot
If there were two shops, the one unclean and the other clean, and a man entered into one of them, and a doubt arose as to whether he entered the unclean, or the clean one, such a condition of doubt is deemed unclean. In this case he knows he went into one of the stores, both of which are private domains. Therefore, the doubt is which private domain he went into. Since the doubt occurred in a private domain, he is impure.
