the other sort of
water, he must dry them.

3. A pumpkin bottle which is washed in water unsuitable for purification,
may be used for purification, till it becomes legally unclean. When it is
unclean, they may no longer purify in it. R. Joshua said, "if one purify
in it at first, one may purify in it to the last; if it cannot purify at
last, it cannot purify at first." Whether it be clean or unclean, one must
not add therein water for purification.

4. "A hollow reed cut for the ashes of the red heifer?" R. Eliezer said,
"it must be washed at once." R. Joshua said, "it must be rendered legally
unclean, and afterward washed." Everyone is suitable for purifying
excepting a deaf person, an idiot, and a child. R. Judah "allows a child,
but disallows a woman and a neuter."

5. Water may be prepared for purification in every vessel, even in vessels
of dung, in vessels of stone and vessels of clay and in a boat. Water must
not be prepared for purification in the sides of vessels nor in the bottom
of a vase nor in the cork of a barrel nor in one's fists, since they are
not used for filling water, and they must not purify with them. And the
water of the ashes of the heifer is not sprinkled without a vessel. There
is no safety from defilement in the covering(736) bound except in proper
vessels--there is no safety from the defilement of earthen vessels except
in proper vessels.

6. An egg-shaped vessel of the potters is allowed for the purifying water.
R. Jose "disallows it." "The egg (shell) of a hen?" R. Meier and R. Judah
"allow it," but the Sages "disallow it."

7. "A trough in a rock?" "They do not fill water with it, they do not
purify in it, and they do not sprinkle from it, and it does not need the
covering bound, and it does not disallow(737) the purifying-pool." "If
there were a vessel united (to it) with lime?" "They may fill water with
it, they may purify in it, and sprinkle from it, and it needs a covering
bound, and (if it becomes legally unclean) it disallows the purifying
pool." "It had a hole in the bottom, and it was stuffed with a rag?" "The
water in it is disallowed, because it is not (entirely) surrounded with
the vessel." "If the hole were in the side, and it was stuffed with a
rag?" "The water within it is allowed, because it is surrounded with the
vessel." "If a rim of mud was made for it, and the water rose up to it?"
"It is disallowed." "If it were so strong that the vessel could be lifted
by it?" "