It is allowed."

8. "There are two troughs in one stone. One of them is legally purified.
The water in the second is not purified. There are holes from one trough
to the other like the pipe of a bottle, or water overflowed from above
only as much as the peeling of a garlic, and the owner had purified one of
them?" "The water in the second can also purify."

9. "Two stones which are placed near to each other, and one made of them a
(drinking-) trough, and also two kneading-troughs, and also a
drinking-trough, which was divided?" "The water, which is between them,
does not purify." "If one connected them with lime or gypsum, and they can
be lifted at once?" "The water, which is between them, can purify."

Chapter VI

1. "When one wishes to purify, and the ashes of purification have fallen
on his hand or upon the side (of the vessel), and they afterward fell on a
drinking-trough?" "They are disallowed." "If water of purification fell
from a pipe on the trough?" "It is disallowed." "He took the water of
purification out of the pipe, and covered the pipe or shut the door with
it?" "The ashes of purification are allowed, but the water is disallowed."
"He laid it on the ground?" "It is disallowed." "He laid it in his hand?"
"It is allowed, because it is not otherwise possible."

2. "If the ashes swam on the surface of the water?" R. Meier and Rabbi
Simon said, "one may take them and purify"; but the Sages say, "all ashes
which have once touched water, cannot purify." "If one have sprinkled the
water, and the ashes be found at the bottom?" R. Meier and R. Simon said,
"He may dry them and purify"; but the Sages say, "all ashes which have
(once) touched water, cannot purify."

3. "If one prepare water for purification in a trough, and there be a jug
in it?" "Though its mouth be ever so narrow, the water therein can
purify." "If there be a sponge?" "The water in it is disallowed." "How is
one to act?" "He is to sprinkle till he come to the sponge. When he has
touched the sponge, even if the water swim over it ever so little, it is
disallowed."

4. "One has put in his hand or his foot, or leaves of vegetables, so that
the water of purification has run over to another vessel?" "It is
disallowed." If they were leaves of reeds or leaves of nuts, they are
allowed. This is the rule: The thing which contracts uncleanness is
disallowed; and the thing which does not contract uncleanness is allowed.

5. "If one divert a well i