Keilim 16:4 - 16:5

תורמל ([leather] bag) – a large leather pouch/bag that the shepherd places food and all things. And it is similar to it, but not the shepherd with his sack/bag.

קיחותיו (shepherd’s bag) – its rims, like kinds of small ears/handles surrounding the leather bag, and he puts into those handles ropes that they close it with.

סקורטיא (leather coat, apron, table cover) – leather that the tanners wear at the time of their work.

ציציתה (show-fringe) – like a kind of ritual fringes/Tzitzit of a Tallit/prayer shawl. So, we make the threads on its corners to tie attach them. But Maimonides explained, that סקורטיא, is leather that we eat upon, and its show-fringes is in the middle of the leather that we place upon it a foil/plate of metal for adornment, the language of the golden front plate (ציץ הזהב), which is a foil/plate of gold.

טבעותיה – a copper or iron ring that they place on the edge of the leather coat.

קטבליא (leather curtain, spread, cover – hide spread over the bed frame) – leather that they spread over the bed. And they call it NATAH in Arabic. And flat leather vessels are susceptible to receive ritual defilement from the Rabbis alone, like flat wooden utensils, and their law is similar in that they are not susceptible to receive ritual defilement from Torah, but rather from the Rabbis in all of the rest of the defilements except for the uncleanness caused by an unclean person lying o an object and the uncleanness caused by an unclean person’s sitting (i.e., the unclean seat) which ae made uncleanness by lying and uncleanness by sitting from the Torah when they are designated for this.

הכר והכסת – a mattress is smaller than a cushion, and is made to place under their heads. But the cushion [is made to be placed] underneath all of his body.

פחות מחמשה טפחים – they leave over/reserve because of the opening to bring in from there the hackled wool/lint/soft spongy substance to fill the mattress and the cushion.

פטיליא (wicker work – a sort of bale for packing dates, figs, etc.) – a basket made from species of trough, and they store in it dried figs.

וחסינה (a wicker work used for purposes of storage) – like a kind of basket made from thorns, and they place plaster/clay upon it.

סוגניות (loosely woven mats made of leaves [for covering up fruit]) – it is the language of סוגה בשושנים/”hedged about with lilies (Song of Songs 7:3). They make a kind of small basket of osier from the leaves and they cover fruits with it, but it is not other than a temporary construction.

נצרים (sprouts, shoots) – from the band made of palm-bark (i.e., wicker).

חותל (a bale which you can add to or take from – without cutting it open/wrapper of reed-matting) – a vessel that we make from the dried branches of the palm, and we place in it moist palm and they ripen in it.

נותן לתוכו ונוטל מתוכו – but if he is not able to remove the date-palms unless he tears it or loosens his dried palm branches, it is pure, for since he tears it or loosens it/unties it, he casts it into the dunghill/trash for it is of temporary use.