O rabino Meir diz: O petróleo é sempre primário [em sua impureza, isto é, em um nível de primeiro grau, mesmo que congele em um sólido]. Os sábios dizem: até mel. O rabino Shimon Shezuri diz: mesmo vinho. Um amontoado de azeitonas [impuras] que caíram no forno e foram acesas, se [as azeitonas] são exatamente o equivalente a um ovo [em volume], [o forno] é puro [porque os alimentos não podem tornar um recipiente impuro] ; se eles são maiores que o equivalente a um ovo [em volume], é impuro, pois uma vez que a primeira gota saiu, [aquela gota de líquido] ficou impura pelo volume [restante] do ovo [que é uma quantidade suficiente de comida para tornar impureza, e essa gota impura torna o forno impuro; mas quando existe exatamente o volume de azeitonas de um ovo, a primeira gota dele que derrete em líquido não é tornada impura por ele, já que não há mais uma quantidade suficiente de comida para torná-lo impuro]. Se elas [as azeitonas impuras] são separadas [umas das outras], mesmo que haja uma se'ah [uma grande medida] delas, [o forno] é puro.
Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
השמן תחילה לעולם – and even though it congealed it doesn’t depart from the status of liquid.
Ask RabbiBookmarkShareCopy
English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot
Rabbi Meir says: oil always remains unclean in the first degree. And the sages say: honey also. Rabbi Shimon Shezuri says: also wine. Rabbi Meir says that unclean oil retains its first degree of impurity even if it becomes solid and then melts again and there is exactly the volume of an egg (see yesterday's mishnah, which discussed sauce, barley-mash, and milk). This is because when it became solid it was neither a liquid nor was it considered food. Therefore, when it turned back into a liquid, it is considered as never having lost its status as liquid. The sages add that the same is true of honey. This refers to honey directly flowing from the hive. R. Shimon Shezuri adds in wine as well.
Ask RabbiBookmarkShareCopy
Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
ר' שמעון שזורי אומר אף היין – [wine] that congealed does not depart from the status of liquid. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon Shezuri.
Ask RabbiBookmarkShareCopy
English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot
A mass of olives that fell into an oven that was heated: If [the olives] were exactly the size of an egg it [the oven] remains pure; But if it was more than that of an egg the oven becomes unclean, for as soon as the first drop came out it became unclean by contact with an egg's bulk. If the olives were separated even if there was a se'ah of them, it remains clean. A mass of olives that are stuck together and are impure falls into a hot oven. As food, the olives do not defile the oven because food does not defile vessels. But if liquid comes out of the olives and is impure it will defile the oven because liquid can defile vessels. If the olive mass is only exactly the amount of an egg, it won't defile the oven. Even if liquid begins to flow from the mass when it hits the oven, the remainder of the mass is less than an olive, so it doesn't defile. But if it was more than an egg, then as soon as the first drop comes out, the food will defile the liquid and the liquid will then defile the oven. If the olives fall separately into the oven, then each is less than the size of an egg, and even if liquid comes out of the olive, the oven will remain pure.
Ask RabbiBookmarkShareCopy
Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
וגוש של זיתים (lump/clod of olives) – many olives that are attached together. And we are speaking about an impure lump/clod.
Ask RabbiBookmarkShareCopy
Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
בביצה מכוון טהור – the oven [is pure], for food does not defile a vessel. But liquid that comes out from the clod/lump on account of heating, it has nothing for what that it defiles, for since the first drop [of liquid] departed [upon heating], it is missing from an egg’s bulk, but when there is in the clod/lump more than an egg’s bulk, when the first drop exudes there still remained in the clod/lump the equivalent of an egg’s bulk, and when the drop in the clod/lump is defiled, and it returned to being first-degree [of ritual impurity], the drop defiled the oven, for liquids defile a vessel.
Ask RabbiBookmarkShareCopy
Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
אם היו פירודים – if the olives were separate that they are not a lump/clod.
Ask RabbiBookmarkShareCopy
Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
אפילו הן מאה – meaning to say even if they are the measurement of one-hundred eggs, they do not combine to be an egg’s bulk to defile the oil that exudes to become first-degree [of ritual defilement].
