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חמשה. לקדשן חמשה קידושין – each and every jar on its own.

Introduction This mishnah deals with a person who draws water multiple times from a live source of water and either wants to use all five jars for one mixture or for five different mixtures. The potential problem that he could encounter is the prohibition of doing "work" while preparing the hatat water.

ונמלכו לקדשן קידוש אחד – to empty five of them into one large vessel and to mix the [the water with the ashes] at once/simultaneously.

If five men filled five jars to prepare with them five mixtures, and then they changed their minds to prepare one mixture from all of them, or if they filled the jars to prepare with them one mixture and then they changed their minds to prepare with them five mixtures, all the water remains valid. There are two scenarios here. In the first, five different people draw five different jars of water with which to make five different mixtures of hatat water and then they change their mind and decide to make one mixture. Alternatively, five different men want to make one mixture and then they change their mind and decide to make five different mixtures. In both cases, all of the water is valid. As stated in the introduction, the potential problem is that one person would be preparing hatat water and at the same time doing something else, even preparing a separate mixture of hatat water. In these cases, that did not happen, because there were five different men, and each was occupied with preparing his own jar of hatat water.

הרי כולן כשרים – for since each pone fills his vessel there isn’t here labor invalidating in water whether in filling/drawing water to casting the ashes in the water.

If one man filled five jars intending to prepare five [separate] mixtures, [even though] he changed his mind to prepare one mixture from all of them, only the last is valid. Here, one man wanted to make five different jars but then changed his mind and decided to prepare one jar of hatat water. The problem is that after he filled each jar, he then went and filled another jar and this is considered "work" which disqualifies the validity of the hatat water. Only the last jar's water is valid because he didn't occupy himself with anything else after filling that jar.

היחיד שמליא חמש חביות כו' – nothing is fit/appropriate other than the last. For the first filling is invalidated with the work that he did when he filled the second [jar] prior to putting the ashes in the first [jar], and similarly, the second [filling] is invalidated when he fills the third [jar], and similarly all of them. But if from the outset he would fill five jars one after another or even one-[hundred jars in order to mix ashes and water in one mixing, as for example, that he needs to sprinkle upon many vessels, they would not invalidate each other and all of them are fit/appropriate, for all are considered one filling/drawing water. But when he filled from the outset for the sake of five mixings, all of them invalidate each other for reason of the labor, for it invalidates in the water until he casts in the ashes, therefore, nothing is fit/appropriate other than the last.

If he intended to prepare one mixture from all of them and then he changed his mind to prepare five separate mixtures, only the water in the one that was mixed first is valid. At the outset, he intended to make one large mixture of hatat water and then he changed his mind and decided to make the water that he had drawn into five separate mixtures. The first drawing remains valid. But the latter four drawings of water are all invalid because the first mixing was considered work done in between their drawing and their mixing.

ונמלך לקדשן חמשה קדושין – that he mixed this one on its own and that one on its own.

If he said to another man, "Prepare mixtures from these for yourself," only the first is valid; In this case a person fills up five jars and then says to another, "Prepare them for yourself." The preparer now takes possession of the water, thereby taking the place of the drawer. And just as only the first was valid in section three, so too here, only the first is valid because work was done in between their drawing their mixing.

אין כשר אלא זו שקידש ראשון – for the first mixing [of ashes and water] is considered labor for the others that would be filled ‘with water] but he did not place the ashes into them, for until he places the ashes, the labor invalidates in the water.

But if he said, "Prepare a mixture from these for me," all are valid. In this case, the drawer says to the one who will mix the water and ashes, "Prepare them for me." Here, the preparer does not take the place of the drawer, for he hasn't given possession of the water over to him. It turns out that the owner of the water (the one who drew it) didn't do any labor in between the drawing and the mixing. Therefore, all of the mixtures are valid.

אמר לאחד קדש לך את אלו – the individual that filled five jars to perform one mixing [of ashes and water], and he said to another person: “Mix for yourself these,” and he mixed [ashes and water] for five mixings, nothing is fit/appropriate other than the first, for since he said to him: “Mix for yourself and he gave them (i.e., the ashes and the water) to him, they became his and it is as if he filled them, and the mixing [of ashes and water] that he first did became [extrinsic] work to invalidate the others.

אבל אם אמר קדש לי את אלו כולן כשרים – that the person who fills [the jars] did not do work, and the person who mixes [ashes and water] that is not his in order that they will become invalidated by [the actions of] his hand.