Keilim 22:10 - 23:1

האסלא (privy/toilet; iron frame of a privy-stool covered with leather) – place of sitting of iron which is covered with leather, and they sit upon it in the toilet.

פירשה (if it was separated) – the leather from the iron.

העור טמא מדרס – that the leather by itself is appropriate for sitting, but the iron without the leather is not appropriate for sitting, but it is appropriate for other usages.

טרסקל (basket) – a small basket made from peeled willows, and they eat bread upon it.

והטרסקל טהור מכלום (a chair on three legs, a camp-chair is clean of all) – that because of its being small, it is not appropriate for sitting , and neither for the rest of the usages, for it has no walls.

ספסלים שבמרחץ – they are of marble.

ששתי רגליו של עץ טמא – if the person with gonorrhea sat upon it, the legs of wood are unclean because of uncleanness through sitting. But the bench itself is ritually pure, for the stone vessels have no defilement at all, neither from the words of the Torah nor from the words of the Scribes.

ואחת של אבן טהור – for it is as if the bench is completely made from stone.

ששיגמן (which one planed; or that one joined with bamboo) – that had become unfit and were repaired with a tool to plane wood/a chisel.

שיהו המים הולכים תחתיהן – but they are not made for sitting, but people sit there in order that they not be soiled from the water of bath-houses that come out. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.

קנקילין (perforated vessel for fumigation) – a vessel that they place fire and sulfur underneath them in order to fumigate the clothing that is upon it.

שיש לה בית קבלה כסות – that it has a receptacle to receive the clothing that is upon it.

ככוורת – that it is perforated from its two sides.

הכדור – PLOTA in the foreign language.

והאימום (model, shoe-maker’s last) – frame of a shoe. And all of these their outer sections are leather and they filled from the inside with hair or hackled wool/a spongy substance.

והקמיע והתפילין (the [parchment] amulet and the phylactery) – there is within the housing of leather [Biblical] portions written on parchment.

ובמה שבתוכן טהור – if one of these was defiled through [contact with] a corpse and afterwards was torn, and a person came in contact with what is within them, he is ritually pure, because there isn’t any attachment with what is within them, and there isn’t anything that is within them that is ritually impure like them.

הכאוף – like אוכף/saddle.

הנוגע במה שבתוכו טמא – if the saddle was defiled through [contact with] a corpse, just as what touches it is ritually impure, so the person who coms in contact with what is within it is also ritually impure.

מפני שהתפר מחברו (because the stitching connects it – the covering to the stuffing) – and makes it one, that which is within with the outer part.