Keilim 18:5 - 18:6

מטה שהיתה טמאה מדרס (a bed that was ritually impure through treading) – that a person with gonorrhea who lay on it or was suspending from it or leaning on it.

קצרה (the short board, the board at the head and at the foot of the bed) – those pieces of wood that are at the width of the bed to the side from its head or from its feet.

ארוכה – those pieces of wood that are at the length of the bed from the right or from the left, and they are called ארוכות המטה/long board, long side of the bedstead.

טהורה – for they further are not proper and they are like shards of vessels that are ritually pure.

ר' נחמיה מטמא – But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Nehemiah.

גדר – he severed and broke off (i.e., cut) like cut down a tree.

שתי לשונות לוכסן (two tongues diagonally – two pieces of wood that are made like a tongue, that the frames of the bed are placed upon them, he cuts them with crosswise/diagonally, one that is in the southeastern corner and one that is in the northwest corner, are ritually pure, for they are not appropriate. And similarly if he cut two legs a handbreadth by a handbreadth diagonally, from the leg that is in the southeast corner he cut a handbreadth, and from the leg in the northwest corner he cut a handbreadth, it is like it is broken.

או מיעטה מטפח (or he diminished it by a handbreadth) – that he cut its legs and there is no handbreadth from the bed to the ground, it is not considered [of value, and hence is pure].

ותיקנה טמאה מדרס – it still stands in its defilement/impurity, since the second side exists.

טהורה מן המדרס – even though the first was repaired prior to the second side being broken. Nevertheless, it is ritually pure/clean, for new faces had appeared here, for after it went down through the defilement of treading/Midras, these faces renewed themselves and this is not the first, for after it had been ruined enough in order that it be voided.

אבל טמאה מגע מדרס – because the long side of the bedstead was first when it was broken and fixed and he brought a new long side in place of the broken one and attached it below, it became defiled through contact via treading/Midras, for it (the person with gonorrhea) had touched the bed who was impure through treading, and when the second [board] was broken, that it sprouting from it the defilement of treading, there remained in it the defilement of contact, for the entire bed is connected to the first board when it was fixed.

עד שנשברה שניה טהורה ([if one did not have the time to repair the first] before the second was broken – it – the bed is pure) – for since the two long bedsteads were broken, they are no longer fit for use. And it is not similar to where it was taken apart and all of it exists, for there, it will be eventually be put back together with its fellow parts.