Non vi è alcuna differenza tra uno zav (uno con una scarica genitale) che ha due avvistamenti [in un giorno o in due giorni consecutivi] e uno che ha tre avvistamenti [in un giorno o in tre giorni consecutivi o due in un giorno e uno il prossimo], ma l'offerta. [Uno zav che ha due avvistamenti non richiede un'offerta; ma per quanto riguarda la rappresentazione di ciò su cui si trova e di ciò su cui si trova av hatumah (proto-impurità), anche se non li tocca, e (per quanto riguarda) il conteggio di sette giorni dalla cessazione della sua dimissione, sette pulito giorni necessari prima che possa immergersi (per purificazione), sono entrambi uguali.] Non c'è differenza tra un lebbroso in quarantena (musgar), vale a dire. (Levitico 13: 5): "Quindi il sacerdote lo metterà in quarantena per sette giorni" e un lebbroso confermato (muchlat), [che il sacerdote conferma come impuro], ma lasciando crescere i capelli e strappando gli indumenti, (richiesto da un lebbroso confermato, ma non di uno in quarantena), [ma per quanto sia mandato via ed essere impuro, sono entrambi uguali.] Non c'è differenza tra uno purificato dopo la quarantena e uno purificato dopo la conferma (come lebbroso) ma (la mitzvah di) rasatura e (quella di) gli uccelli, [essendo scritto a questo proposito (Levitico 14: 3): "... ed ecco, se la piaga della lebbra viene guarita dal lebbroso"—escludere un lebbroso in quarantena, la cui lebbra non dipende dalla guarigione, ma dai giorni (di quarantena). Perché anche se fosse guarito, deve rimanere in quarantena per sette giorni. Ma per quanto riguarda la pulizia nel mikveh, sono entrambi uguali. Per quanto riguarda la pulizia dopo la quarantena è anche scritto (Ibid. 13: 6): "E si laverà i vestiti e si purificherà". E anche se ci sono le offerte di colpa e il ceppo di petrolio (richiesto dal lebbroso confermato, ma non da quello in quarantena), la nostra Mishnah parla del giorno della sua purificazione e della sua guarigione, e non delle offerte, che ottengono l'ottavo giorno.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Megillah
שתי ראיות – whether on one day or on two consecutive days, and also three sightings, whether on one day, whether on three consecutive days or two [sightings] on one day, and one on the morrow.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Megillah
There is no difference between a zav who sees [genital discharge] twice and one who sees three, except the sacrifice. A man who experiences an abnormal discharge for one or two consecutive days is impure for seven days after the discharge ends. If he sees the discharge for a third consecutive day, he must bring a sacrifice at the end of the seven day period. See Leviticus 15.
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אלא קרבן – for a person afflicted with gonorrhea who viewed two sightings does not require a sacrifice. But regarding the matter of making someone who performed the acts of the uncleanness caused by an unclean person lying on an object and the uncleanness caused by an unclean man’s sitting [to become] one of the original or direct causes of Levitical uncleanness and even if he did not touch them, and the counting of seven [clean days] from when his flux stopped, for he must count seven clean [days] before he immerses [in the Mikveh/ritual bath], both of these are equivalent.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Megillah
There is no difference between a metzora who is under observation and one declared to be a definite metzora except the disheveling of hair and tearing the clothes. A metzora is a person with some sort of skin affliction. After his skin affliction is identified he is set aside for seven days for observation by a priest. If the skin affliction spreads, then the priest declares him to be a definite metzora. There is no difference between the two stages except that one who has been declared to be a definite metzora has to have his hair disheveled and his clothes torn, as prescribed in Leviticus 13:45. [I should note that some interpret the Hebrew for “disheveling the hair” to mean that he has to let his hair grow long.] Other than these differences, the two types of metzora are equal in their impurity.
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אין בין מצורע מוסגר – who requires the locking up of the leper for trial, as it is written (Leviticus 13:5): “[On the seventh day the priest shall examine him, and if the affliction has remained unchanged in color and the disease has not spread on the skin,] the priest shall isolate him for [another] seven days.”
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English Explanation of Mishnah Megillah
There is no difference between a metzora who has been declared clean after being under observation and one who has been declared clean after having been a definite metzorah except shaving and [sacrificing] the birds. If the priest declares a metzora who had been under observation to be pure, he does not bring a sacrifice nor does he have to shave his hair. If the metzora had been definite then he must bring two birds as a sacrifice and shave his hair. See Leviticus 14. The two different types of metzora are the same in that at the end of their period of impurity they both must immerse in the mikveh and purify their clothes (see Lev. 13:6, 34).
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למצורע מוחלט – where the Kohen [declares] him completely defiled.
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אלא פריעה ופרימה – this is regarding the matter of banishment and defilement, both of these are equivalent.
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אין בין טהור מתוך הסגר לטהור מתוך החלט אלא תגלחת וצפרים – for concerning shearing and the bird sacrifices it is written (Leviticus 14:3): “the leper has been healed of his scaly affection,” excluding the leper being locked up (pending the Kohen’s observation), for his leprosy is dependent upon time (literally, “days”), because even if he was cured, he has to be locked up for seven days. But to the matter of [ritual] purification in the Mikveh, both are equivalent. For someone whose purity [was dependent upon] his being locked up, it is also written (Leviticus 13:6): “[On the seventh day the priest shall examine him again: if the affection had faded and has not spread on the skin, the priest shall pronounce him pure. It is a rash;] he shall wash his clothes, and he shall be pure.” And even though there also are the guilt sacrifices and the LOG (= 6 eggs) of oil, however, here, on the day of his purification and his healing is what is taught, and we are not dealing with the sacrifices that are in [the Torah portion of] Shemini.
