I liquidi [come lo sputo, l'urina, le lacrime] di un tevul yom [uno che si è immerso quel giorno in una mikvah , ma che deve aspettare fino al calar della notte per diventare completamente puro, ed è di impurità di secondo grado fino ad allora] sono come i liquidi che ha toccato; nessuno dei due è reso impuro. E tutti gli altri che sono impuri, sia con un grado minore o maggiore [o impurità], i liquidi emessi da essi sono come liquidi che uno di loro ha toccato; questi e quelli sono di grado primario [di impurità], ad eccezione di un liquido che è un'origine di impurità [cioè come lo sputo di urina di uno zav ].
Bartenura on Mishnah Tevul Yom
משקה טבול יום – the liquids which exude from the person who immersed himself that day) – as for example, his spittle, his urine, the tears of his eyes and the blood from his wounds, and the milk of a woman.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tevul Yom
Liquids that come out of a tevul yom are like those which he has touched: neither of them causes defilement. Liquids that come out of a person include one's spit and one's urine. Our mishnah deals with the defiling power of such liquids. For a tevul yom, a person who has been to the mikveh but the sun has not yet set, those liquids are pure. They are like liquids that he touches and a tevul yom does not defile liquid such in order to give it first degree impurity. We should note that while a tevul yom would disqualify terumah that he has touched, as we saw in yesterday's chapter, he does not defile non-sacred produce.
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כמשקים שהוא נוגע בהן – like liquids of priest’s due/heave-offering that he touches/comes in contact with, for a person who has immersed himself that day/Tevul Yom invalidates heave-offering/priest’s due.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tevul Yom
With regard to all others that are unclean, be they of minor or major [degree], the liquids that come out of them are like those they touch; both have first degree impurity. In contrast, other people who are actually unclean, do defile liquids to give them first degree impurity and the liquids that come out of their body have first degree impurity. It doesn't matter whether these people have high or low levels of impurity. The liquids that they touch or that come out of their body would defile food and vessels but they wouldn't defile people.
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אלו ואלו – liquids which exude from his body and liquid heave-offering do not defile the Holy Things/make the susceptible to uncleanness , but they invalidate it (see Tractate Parah, Chapter 8, MIshnah 7).
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tevul Yom
Except for liquid that is a "father of impurity." The exception to this rule are the few cases where liquids that come out of a person are themselves considered to be "fathers of impurity." This would include the spit or urine of a zav (see Zavim 5:7). Such liquids would even defile people and things.
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בין קלין בין חמורין (whether minor or major) – minor are unclean reptiles; major are people with gonorrhea/flux (see also Tractate Hullin, folio 88a).
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תחילה – first remove/degree of uncleanness and it makes [other things] second [degree of ritual uncleanness] and the second [degree of ritual uncleanness] makes [other things] third [degree of ritual uncleanness.
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חוץ מן המשקה שהוא אב הטומאה – as for example the flux of a person with gonorrhea and his digestive organs/bowels.
