Ogni dubbio riguardante Negaim inizialmente è considerato puro, fino a quando non è stato obbligato nell'impurità. Una volta che è stato obbligato nell'impurità, il suo dubbio è considerato impuro. Come mai? Due che vennero da un prete, uno con un Baheret come [un fagiolo grosso ] e uno come un Sela . Alla fine della settimana [di quarantena], uno è come un Sela e l'altro è come un Sela, ma non è chiaro quale sia stato ampliato. [Questa legge si applica] sia che si trattasse di una persona [con due Negaim] o di due persone, è considerata pura. Il rabbino Akiva dice: per quanto riguarda una persona, è impuro ma per due persone, è puro.
Bartenura on Mishnah Negaim
בין אישר אחד – even though that which ever you turn, he has one bright white spot in the flesh that has spread, that which at its outset was like a split Cilician bean and now is like a Sela, he is fit to be declared a certified leper, nevertheless, since he (i.e., the Kohen) doesn’t know on which plague is declaring him to be a certified leper, he (i.e., the person) is pure, from the decree of the Scriptural verse, as it is written (Leviticus 13:22): “If it should spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him impure; [it is an affection],” the definitive plague he declares impure, but he doesn’t declare impure but he doesn’t defile the plague where he has doubt.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Negaim
Any doubt in negaim in the beginning is regarded as clean before uncleanness has been established, but after uncleanness has been established a doubt is regarded as unclean. In the first mishnah of this chapter we learned that if there is a doubt concerning a nega, it is considered pure. Today's and tomorrow's mishnah clarify that this is only before any impurity has been established. Once some impurity has been established, doubtful cases are impure.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Negaim
בין בשני אנשים – even though that one of them requires being shut up/isolated for seven days a second time at the end of the first week, and the other is a certified leper, but sine he doesn’t know which to shut up and which to declare a certified leper, both of them are pure from the decree from the Scriptural verse.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Negaim
How is this so? If two men came to a priest one having a bright spot the size of a split bean and the other having one of the size of a sela, and at the end of the week each had one the size of a sela, and it is not known on which of them the spreading had occurred, Whether this occurred with one man or with two men, each is clean. The mishnah first explains cases where the doubt comes before the purity is established and therefore he is pure. Two men come to a priest (yes, this does sound like the beginning of a joke) and both have a bright spot. One has a nega the size of a split bean and another has a nega that is larger, the size of a sela. Both are isolated for a week, and at the end of the week one person's nega has spread to be the size of a sela, and the other's has not spread. The problem is that the priest can't remember who had one the size of a sela and whose was the size of a split bean, meaning he doesn't know which spread and which did not. Since no impurity has yet been established, both are considered pure. The rabbis add that this is true even if both negaim are on one man. Although we know that one nega spread, we don't know which, and therefore he cannot be deemed impure.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Negaim
ר' עקיבא אומר כו' – but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Akiba.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Negaim
Rabbi Akiva said: if one man is involved he is unclean, but if two men are involved each is clean. Rabbi Akiva disagrees with this latter statement. If both negaim are on one person, then he is unclean because we can be certain that one of his negaim spread.
