כלים ה׳:י״א - ו׳:א׳

של אבן ושל מתכת טהור – [an oven] that is of stone is completely pure, and that of metal is pure from the law of an earthenware vessel, which does not defile from its airspace, and it has purity.

וטמא משום כלי מתכות – that it becomes susceptible to receive defilement from its outside and becomes a primary source of ritual impurity. But if it is attached to the ground, it does not defile, for all that is attached to the ground, behold it is like the ground, except for an oven and a portable stove on feet with caves for two pots which are of earthenware, as it is written concerning them (Leviticus 11:35): “[Everything on which the carcass of any of them falls shall be unclean:] an oven or stove shall be smashed,” that which has breaking up/cutting out.

ניקב נפגם נסדק – and he made a treatment of plaster to close up the perforation or the damage or the crack. Or he made at its mouth a supplement of plaster, it is impure, like the law of an earthenware oven.

וכן בכירה – and similarly, the measurement of a perforation of a portable stove on feet with caves for two pots, in order that the flame can exude through it, like the measurement of the earthenware oven.

ועשה לה פטפוטין (if he made legs for the stove – so that it no longer rests immediately on the ground) – here it does not teach: “that he made for it plaster/paste” [because] they don’t make plaster/paste for a portable stove on feet with caves for two pots that was perforated, damaged or cracked like they do for an oven, but rather, when it was perforated or damaged, the portable stove on feet with caves for two pots is in the place of the perforation to make legs for the stove, they are the legs of the portable stove on feet with caves for two pots, like TRIPID in the foreign language, that the portable stove on feet with caves for two pots sits on these legs for the stove.

מרחה בטיט – [if he spread plaster over it] it is pure, for the spreading/smearing of plaster on it, has no effect other than with an oven that they bread read inside it, but not with a portable stove on feet with caves for two pots, because they don’t bake or cook within this portable stove on feet with caves for two pots itself, but they leave it it within it or on top of the pot. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

העושה שלשה פטפוטים – three legs/,pins that sit/rest on the land.

וחיברן בטיט – above their head, like a kind of iron vessel that they call TRIPID.

קבע שלשה מסמרים – that he inserted them into the ground.

טהורות – for metal vessels that are attached to the ground are like the ground itself, and they are not susceptible to receive [ritual] defilement.

וחיברם בטיט טמאה – it is like a portable stove on feet with caves for two pots/כירה of earthenware, that the plaster/clay on their head makes it the designation of earthenware.

עד שיעשה שלישית – similar to three clay pins forming a sort of tripod for the support of a pot.

או עד שיסמוך לכותל – that the wall will sort the pot from one side.

אחת בטיט – one is fastened/attached to its neighbor with plaster/clay at its top.

ואחת שלא בטיט – that the third one is not attached/fastened. And this is [the opinion of] Rabbi Yehuda, but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.