Gdyby zobaczył jedno [wyładowanie] tak obfite jak trzy [wyładowania] trwające tak długo, jak potrzeba przejścia] z Gad Yavan do Shiloach , [odstęp], który wystarczyłby na dwa zanurzenia [w mykwie] i dwa suszenia, on jest pełnoprawnym zav . Jeśli zobaczył, że jeden [wydzielina] jest tak obfity jak dwa, czyni nieczystym wszystko, na czym siedzi lub na którym leży, i wymaga zanurzenia w bieżącej wodzie, ale nie musi składać ofiary. Rabin Yose powiedział: Nie mówili o jednym [absolutorium], które było obfite [wystarczająco, aby uczynić go pełnoprawnym zav ], chyba że było wystarczająco dużo [objętości], aby równać się trzem.
Bartenura on Mishnah Zavim
כמין גד יון לשילוח – a place in Jerusalem that the Canaanite kings preserved idolatrous worship, and that same place was distant from the Shiloah as a measure [of time] of twice bathing and getting dry. Like from Gad Yon. It is the language of (Isaiah 65:11): “Who set a table for Luck” (a name of heathen deity). Shiloah is the name of the river, as it is written (Isaiah 8:6): “Because that people has spurned the gently flowing waters of Siloam” (the conduit – and later the tunnel – of Siloam conveyed into Jerusalem the waters of Gihon, which symbolize “The LORD of Hosts who dwells on Mount Zion – see verse 18).
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English Explanation of Mishnah Zavim
If he saw one issue which was as copious as three, lasting as long [as it takes to go] from Gad-Yav to Shiloah, which is the time it would take to bathe and dry twice, he becomes a full zav. The mishnah now mentions the possibility that a man could have one issue of zov (discharge) and it would be sufficient to count as all three issues necessary to become a full zav. The discharge would have to last long enough to bathe and dry twice, once in between each issue, had they been separate. In addition, the mishnah defines this as the time it would take to walk from a place called Gad Yavan to the Shiloah spring in Jerusalem. Unfortunately, we don't know where "Gad Yavan" is. But assumedly it is near the Shiloah spring, the source of water for the ancient city of Jerusalem.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Zavim
מטמא משכב ומושב – that we consider it as two sightings.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Zavim
If he saw one issue which was as copious as two, he defiles [objects] on which he lies or sits and he must immerse in running water, but he is exempt from bringing a sacrifice. One issue can count as two to make a man into a zav, but not a full zav. The difference between a full zav and a zav is that a full zav must bring a sacrifice at the end of his period of cleanness.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Zavim
אלא אם ען יש בה כדי שלש (unless it sufficed to make up three [emissions]) – as for exzmple like from Gad Yon to Shiloah, for then it is considered like a complete Zav, even with regard to the sacrifice. But with one profuse as two, they do not divide it, and it is considered like one sighting. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yossi.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Zavim
Rabbi Yose said: they have not spoken of "one issue as copious" unless there was sufficient to make up three. Rabbi Yose said that there is no legal consequences to seeing one issue of zov that is as copious as two. Either the issue was as copious as three, in which case he would be a full zav, or it would count as only one. This means that Rabbi Yose would disagree with most of the mishnayot that we have seen so far in this chapter.
