Mishnayos Oholos Perek 7 Mishnah 2

כל שפועי אהלים כאהלים – that if there was defilement underneath the slope even though it is not under the roof of the tent, it is impure, as if it was placed under the roof.

וכלה עד כאצבע (and finished off at one fingerbreadth) – from above to the side of the roof. That we aren’t concerned regarding a tent of defilement but rather that its inside will have the airspace like the measure of one cubic handbreadth squared.

טומאה באוהל – the width of the roof that is not sloped is called a tent.

הנוגע בו מתוכו וכו' – that the inner side of the tent and its outer side are considered like two vessels. But the side that is directed towards/opposite the defilement is like a vessel that comes in contact with the corpse itself, and the second side is like vessels that come in contact with vessels. Therefore, defilement that is within, a person who comes in contact/touches from the inside, has ritual impurity for seven days, for he is a person that touched vessels that came in contact with a corpse as it is taught in the Mishnah in the first chapter (see Tractate Ohalot, Chapter 1, Mishnah 3) that he has ritual impurity for seven days.

אל הנוגע מאחוריו טמא טומאת ערב – as is taught in the Mishnah regarding vessels [that come in contact] with impure vessels are defiled with ritual impurity for seven days. The third, whether a person or vessels is unclean with defilement that passes in the evening (see Tractate Ohalot, Chapter 1, Mishnah 2). But regarding the defilement from the outside, it is the opposite, for the outer side is like vessels that come in contact with a corpse, and the inner side is like vessels that come in contact with [impure] vessels. And the reason that the is that the inner side and the outer side are considered like two vessels, for the defilement that is within it, because it protects from being the defilement bursting forth and ascending, it lacks the power/strength to defile the person who touches it outside a ritual impurity of seven days, for when the defilement that is outside, since it protects from becoming the defilement that breaks forth and descends, it lacks the strength/power for the inside to defile a person who comes in contact with it for a defilement of seven days. But anyway, the tent itself, whether inside or whether outside is impure a ritual impurity of seven days, for it is like vessels [coming in contact] with [unclean] vessels, and all of our Mishnah is speaking about after the corpse has departed from the tent.

כחצי זית מתוכו וכחצי זית מאחוריו – Whichever way you turn, the tent is impure a defilement of seven days, for the half of an olive’s bulk that is inside combines with a half of an olive’s bulk from the outside. But a person who comes in contact/touches whether from the inside or from the outside, he has naught other than ritual impurity until nightfall, for since there isn’t an olive’s bulk in one place, it is impossible for each side to be considered other than vessels [coming into contact] with unclean vessels, therefore, the person who comes in contact is impure until nightfall.

מקצתו מרודד על הארץ ((part of the tent canvas is flat on the ground) – after they explained the tent, they explained the overlapping excess of the curtains of the tent [that are spread] on the ground.

מרודד – it is the Aramaic translation of (Exodus 39:3): “They hammered out sheets of gold” – beaten, hammered metal.

טומאה תחתיו – the defilement that is under that beaten, hammered metal.

או על גביו – on top of the beaten, hammered metal.

בוקעת ועולה בוקעת ויורדת – and the tent is defiled. But a person who enters inside of it is ritually pure if he didn’t come in contact with it.

מקצתו – of the tent.

מרודד על ארובה שבית בית לעליה – and the defilement is in the house.

רבי יוסי אומר מציל – upon the upper chamber/room.

כנטיית אוהל -that the aperture in the roof looking to the ground floor is in the airspace of the tent, then it protects over the entire upper chamber that is outside of the tent.