Keilim 27:6 - 27:7

אלו נמדדים כפולים – that it needs the measurement to be from two sides. Since it is their manner to use them from two sides, if the measurement is from one side, it is not effective. Another explanation, that it is measured double, that a cloth in the place of cut, it is the manner that the threads go out from it and it becomes ruined and is easily torn, and it is the manner of sewers to double a bit around the cut and sew. And this is measured double as it has been taught, for after it is doubled, there needs to be enough in order to its measurement, but if there isn’t enough for its measurement, even though that if one would loosen the stitch and stretch it out, there would be enough for its measurement. It is not effective.

אנפליא (socks) – socks that reach until the knee. Whether they are of cloth or of hide/leather.

פמוליניא (knee breeches/long stockings) – like a kind of large undergarments/trousers that go from the loins until the thighs, and they have straps.

כובע – that is on the head.

וכיס של פונדא (money belt) – a region that is hollow, and it is similar to a pocket that is made for receiving.

מטלית – patch.

שטלייה על השפה – that one sewed on the hem around the neck.

אם פשוטה (if it is flat) – that it is not sewn from both sides but rather either from in front or from behind. And for the second explanation, that it is not doubled from the thread surrounding the seam.

הבגד שארג בו שלשה טפחים על שלשה טפחים (the cloth on which one wove three by three square handbreadths) – in close confinement, which is the measurement to be susceptible to uncleanness through treading. But after they were defiled through treading when they are closely confined, he competed upon it the weaving of all of the cloth, and now all of the cloth is impure through treading which is an attachment of three [handbreadths] by three [handbreadths] square that were defiled prior to the weaving of all the cloth.

נטל חוט אחד מתחלתו – from the first three [handbreadths] by three [handbreadths] square that were defiled by treading.

טהור – the entire cloth [is pure] from uncleanness of treading.

אבל טמא מגע מדרס – because it came in contact with the first three [handbreadths] by three [handbreadths] square prior to its measure being reduced/diminished.

נטל חוט אחד מתחילתו ואח"כ השלים עליו את כל הבגד טמא מגע מדרס – and even though it reduced/diminished its measure prior to completing the entire cloth, nevertheless, the entire cloth is impure through contact with Midrash/treading uncleanness. For this Tanna/teacher holds that a cloth of three [handbreadths] by three [handbreadths] square that was divided after it was defiled through treading, is impure through contact with treading, as is found later on in our chapter (see Mishnah 10 of this chapter). Therefore, when it reduced/diminished its measurement of three [handbreadths] by three [handbreadths] square, it remained impure through contact with treading uncleanness, and when he completed the entire cloth, the cloth is attached to impurity through contact of treading, and all that is attached/connected to something impure, is impure like it.