Commento su Parah 7:10
הַמּוֹסֵר מֵימָיו לְטָמֵא, פְּסוּלִין. וּלְטָהוֹר, כְּשֵׁרִין. רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, אַף לְטָמֵא כְּשֵׁרִין, אִם לֹא עָשׂוּ הַבְּעָלִים מְלָאכָה:
Chi lascia la sua acqua con un individuo ritualmente impuro, non è valido; e con una persona ritualmente pura, è valida. Il rabbino Eliezer dice: anche con un individuo impuro, è valido se il proprietario non ha lavorato.
Bartenura on Mishnah Parah
המוסר מימיו לטמא – to guard/protect them.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Parah
If one gave over his water to someone who was unclean, it is invalid. But if to a clean one it is valid. If a person gives over the water he is watching to an unclean person to watch, the water is invalid because we can't trust that it remained pure. However, if he gives it to a clean person the water remains valid. In addition, the clean person can perform work while watching the water since it is not his water.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Parah
פסולים – whether the first owners did work [or] whether the first owners did not do work, for it was in the possession of the guardian they exist and he was not strict to guard them because he is impure, but the Torah stated (Numbers 19:9): “to be kept for water of lustration.”
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English Explanation of Mishnah Parah
Rabbi Eliezer says: even if it was entrusted to an unclean man it is valid, provided the owner did no other work in the meantime. According to Rabbi Eliezer, if he gives the water to an unclean person, the water remains valid, for we consider the water to have stayed in the possession of the owner. However, this leniency is accompanied by a stringency. Since the water is still in the possession of the owner, if he does work before the mixing, he renders it invalid. In contrast, if he gave it to a clean person, the clean person assumes possession and if the owner does work, it does not render it invalid.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Parah
ולטהור כשרים – and even if the first owners did work, for they (i.e., the waters with the ashes) had already left the domain of the owners and existed in the domain of the guardian. But however, if the guard did work, they are invalid.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Parah
אף לטמא כשרים – for Rabbi Eliezer holds that a person who gave his water over to someone who is unclean, they exist in the possession of the first owners, therefore, if the owners did not do work, they are fit/appropriate. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eliezer.
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