Não há diferença entre um zav (um com descarga genital) que tem dois avistamentos [em um dia ou em dois dias consecutivos] e um que tem três avistamentos [em um dia ou em três dias consecutivos ou dois em um dia e um no próximo], mas a oferta. [Um zav que tem dois avistamentos não exige uma oferta; mas no que diz respeito ao que ele está deitado e ao que ele está sentado av hatumah (proto-impureza), mesmo que ele não os toque, e (tanto quanto) a contagem de sete dias a partir da cessação de sua alta, sete limpos dias são necessários antes que ele possa mergulhar (para purificação), ambos são iguais.] Não há diferença entre um leproso em quarentena (musgar), viz. (Levítico 13: 5): "Então o sacerdote o colocará em quarentena por sete dias", e um leproso confirmado (muito tardio), [a quem o sacerdote confirma como impuro], mas deixando os cabelos crescerem longos e rasgarem as roupas (exigido por um leproso confirmado, mas não por um em quarentena), [mas, tanto quanto são expulsos e impuros, ambos são parecidos.] Não há diferença entre um lavado após quarentena e um lavado após confirmação (como leproso), mas (a mitsvá de) barbear e (a) dos pássaros, [sendo escrito a esse respeito (Levítico 14: 3): "... e eis que, se a peste da lepra for curada do leproso"—excluir um leproso em quarentena, cuja lepra não depende da cura, mas de dias (de quarentena). Pois mesmo que tenha sido curado, ele deve permanecer em quarentena por sete dias. Mas, quanto à limpeza no micvê, ambos são parecidos. Pois em relação à purificação após quarentena também está escrito (Ibid. 13: 6): "E ele lavará suas roupas e se purificará". E mesmo que haja as ofertas de culpa e o registro de óleo (exigido pelo leproso confirmado, mas não pelo colocado em quarentena), nossa Mishná fala do dia de sua purificação e cura, e não das ofertas que obtêm no oitavo dia.]
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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Bartenura on Mishnah Megillah
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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Bartenura on Mishnah Megillah
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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Bartenura on Mishnah Megillah
למצורע מוחלט – where the Kohen [declares] him completely defiled.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Megillah
אלא פריעה ופרימה – this is regarding the matter of banishment and defilement, both of these are equivalent.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Megillah
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.
