Yerushalmi Chagigah 3:5 ירושלמי חגיגה ג׳:ה׳

MISHNAH: From Modiin and closer one is trustworthy about clay vessels, but from Modiin and outside one is not trustworthy. How is this? The potter¹⁷¹Who usually is a vulgar, not trustworthy in matters of purity. who sells pots¹⁷²The kinds used to cook sancta in. The problem with clay vessels is that they cannot be made pure once they are impure. Now the remainders of meat absorbed in the porous walls of clay vessels become forbidden and impure leftover meat after the time allotted to its consumption and therefore must be broken (Lev.6:21). If only fellows could supply clay vessels for sancta, everybody would have to use expensive metal vessels., if he is inside from Modiin then the potter, the pots, and the buyers¹⁷³The buyer who affirms that he bought the pot at a place closer to Jerusalem than Modiin., are trustworthy. If he left he is not trustworthy¹⁷⁴Even about pots he sold at a place closer to Jerusalem than Modiin..

HALAKHAH: The Mishnah is about small clay vessels. The Mishnah implies this: “the potter, the pots, and the buyers.” And are pots not small clay vessels¹⁷⁵Vessels of daily use, not large vats. Babli 26a.?

If food prepared in purity touched it, from Modiin and closer the fluid made the vessel impure¹⁷⁶While the vulgar is to be believed if near Jerusalem he stated that a clay vessel was pure, this refers only to empty vessels. If the vessel contains food, according to R. Joḥanan one says that since he is trustworthy about the vessel he also is trustworthy for its contents. This is denied by R. Simeon ben Laqish; therefore the statement under consideration is R. Simeon ben Laqish’s, not accepted by R. Joḥanan. The text mentions fluid because impure fluids always are impure in the first degree and make clay vessels impure in their interior.. If it was filled with water, Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish said, he is trustworthy about the vessel but not trustworthy about the fluid. Rebbi Joḥanan said, he is trustworthy about both. A Mishnah disagrees with Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish: “Only if he said, I put into it a quartarius of sanctum he is trustworthy¹⁴⁸Since the Temple wine makes him observant of the rules of purity..” Rebbi Ze`ira said, explain it about one who said, I separated it when I was fellow¹⁷⁷The vulgar is not trusted if he affirms that the food was prepared under the supervision of a fellow.. The rabbis of Caesarea in the name of Rebbi Abun bar Ḥiyya: The reason of Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish, there is no fellowship for water¹⁷⁸He holds that even on a holiday, on which all of Israel are considered fellows, no vulgar is trustworthy to testify about water..