Keilim 17:12 - 17:13

מלא תרווד רקב (a ladleful of corpse mold) – see also – Tractate Nazir, Chapter 7, Mishnah 2 (a spoonful of Rakab) – he filled a spoon of sandy-matter of grain from the corpse after all the moistness has been depleted.

מלא תרווד גדול של רופאים (filled a large spoon of the physicians – two handfuls) – which is larger than all the ladles, and its measure is two handfuls.

כגריס הקלקי (like the Cilician split bean) – it is a bean that comes from a place whose name is Kilki, and the beans there are larger than all other beans. And the measure of the place of the Cilician split bean is nine lentils, three-by-three square. And the place of the lentil, is four hairs, and it is found that the place of split bean is thirty-six hairs.

כותבת הגסה (a large date of a certain species) – larger than other date-palms, and its measure is a bit less than that of an egg.

כמוה וכגרעינתה (the like of it together with its kernel of the stone fruit) – that one must crush its open space.

ונודות יין ושמן (and bags of wine and oil) – of leather that were perforated, the measure of their perforation.

כפיקה גדולה (like a large coil or tuft used as a stopper) – that they place in the spindle that women spin with.

ומאור – it is a kind of window from which the light enters into the house.

שלא נעשה בידי אדם – as for example a cavity/hole that water or reptiles make, or that the dirt fell on its own and a perforation was made there. But if he did not think of it for use or for as a source of light, its measure to bring the defilement from the tent of the corpse to the house through the path of the incision.

באגרופו של בן אבטיח – that is a man known among them and Ben Batiach is his name, that he had a large fist.

ושנעשה בידן אדם – or that a person made it to bring in the light.

נירונית (Neronian) – a coin of Nero Caesar.

כמלוא נקב בשעול (the hole in a yoke) – like [the hole made by] the larger carpenters’ borer kept in the Temple cell. And the Italian Pundiyon and the Neronian stone, and the hole in a yoke, all of them is one measurement. But there are places where they knew about one of them, but not the other, Therefore, we teach all of them.

כל שבים טהור – all the creatures that are I the sea, if he made vessels from their skin, they do not receive defilement, as it is written (Leviticus 11:32): “[And anything on which one of them falls when dead shall be impure: be it any article of wood,] or a cloth, or a skin, or a sack –[any such article that can be put to use shall be dipped in water, and it shall remain impure until evening, then it shall be pure],” just as cloth is from something that grows from the earth, even too the skin that that which grows in the earth.

חוץ מכלב המים – because all the rest of the creatures of the sea – not one of them flees to the dry land when [hunters] come to hunt them, other than the sea dog alone, therefore, it is included within the skins of the dry land, and if he made a vessel from its skin, it is susceptible to receive defilement. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Akiva.

אפילו חוט אפילו משיחה (even a thread or a cord) – and as long as he connects them for himself on the road that if both of them were from what grows on the land are attached with a connection like this, the one would become defiled when its partner was defiled.