Si quelqu'un a fini de récolter [ses olives] mais a l'intention d'acheter, ou a fini d'acheter mais a l'intention d'emprunter [plus d'olives], s'il est arrivé qu'il soit devenu un deuil, ou a eu un festin [à assister], ou quelque chose d'inévitable lui est arrivé [l'empêchant lui de prendre plus d'olives ou de les presser], même si zavim et zavot [certains individus avec des décharges qui en font une source d'impureté] marchent dessus [c'est-à-dire sur les olives qu'il avait déjà] ils restent purs [car ils ne sont pas apprêtés pour l'impureté]. Si des liquides impurs tombaient sur eux, seule la zone qu'ils ont touchée est impure et la sève qui en émerge est pure.
Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
גמר מלמסוק – from harvest his olives.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot
Introduction
Our mishnah is a continuation of Rabban Gamaliel and the sages' opinion from yesterday's mishnah, that the olives are not susceptible to impurity until he has decided to take them to the olive press.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
אבל עתיד ליקח – to purchase olives from the market and to add on to these.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot
If he finished the gathering but intended to buy some more, or if he had finished buying but intended to borrow some more, or if a time of mourning, a wedding feast or some other hindrance befell him then even if zavim and zavot trampled over them they remain clean. In all of these cases, the owner of the olives does not want more liquid to flow from the olives because he either intends to add more olives later, or he is going to be delayed from pressing due to some unforeseen circumstance (a relative died, he was invited to a wedding or something of that nature). In these cases the olives are not susceptible to impurity. So if a zav or a zavah (people with abnormal genital discharge) trample over the olives, they do not become impure.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
גמר מליקח – that he doesn’t have any intention to purchase more olives, but wishes to borrow olives from others and to add on to these.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot
If any unclean liquids fell upon them, only the place where it touched them becomes unclean. Unclean liquids that fall on produce cause it to become susceptible to impurity and impure simultaneously. If some unclean liquid falls on these olives, only the part upon which the liquid fell is impure. The remaining olives are still clean.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
אירעו אבל או משתה – and therefore he didn’t add to them, but it is his intention to add [to them] when the mourning period will pass.
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Any liquid that comes out of them is clean. Any liquid that comes out of the olives whose processing has not been completed is clean. This rule is obvious and is already stated in section one. It is only here to be contrasted with the cases we will learn tomorrow in mishnah three. So stay tuned!
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Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
טהורין – because they were not made fit for Levitical uncleanness. According to Rabban Gamaliel (see previous Mishnah) who stated: “After the work of preparing them is completed.”
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אין טמא אלא מקום מגען – it is not fit to receive Levitical uncleanness other than the place of the falling liquid. Another explanation: if they (i.e., the water) on these olives whose work of preparing them was not completed the liquids are impure, nothing is defiled from them other than the olives that the impure liquids them alone.
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המוחל היוצא מהן (the thin secretion that exudes from them) – the water that exudes from the olives prior to their work of preparing them being completed, they do not have the status of law of liquids, and they do not make eatables susceptible [to receive ritual defilement], and they themselves do not receive ritual defilement. And because just as the thin secretion/sap that exudes from the olives is ritually pure until the work of preparing them is completed because he doesn’t desire their existence.
