Keilim 3:3 - 3:4

חבת שניקבה – when it releases olive [oil]. And it is pure, and when it was repaired with pitch, it becomes susceptible to receive defilement from here onwards.

חזרה ונשברה – into many pieces. That shard which has in it pitch holding one-quarter [of a LOG] and it sits without being supported/propped up is impure. But are dealing with a jar that holds from a LOG to a SEAH [the uncleanness will persist if the remnant will hold] a quarter of a LOG as is taught in the Mishnah in the previous Chapter (Tractate Kelim, Chapter 2, Mishnah 2). But even though the closing up (through repair with pitch) has no effect on the hole that comes after breakage, this closing up is different because it was done prior to having nullifying the designation of a vessel from it, for a jug that was perforated, its designation as a jug is upon it even though it is pure, but earthenware that departs from the jug, nullifies the designation of the name of a vessel from it even though it is not perforated. Therefore, closing up its hole has no benefit.

חבית שנתרועעה – like a broken/shattered wall. That is earthenware did not fall out, but it is so cracked that if he carried it and one-half of a KAB of dried figs that are in it would break completely. And it is [ritually] pure as we state in the other (i.e., next) chapter (i.e., Tractate Kelim, Chapter 4) [Mishnah 2].

וטפלה (to paste/plaster) – that he plastered its facing.

בגללים – in order that the potter’s clay would not fall off.

נשברה – that the earthenware fell off and he glued the shards with the glue that scribes use (to paste together strips of papyrus – see Tractate Pesahim, Chapter 3, Mishnah 1). Or that he brought potter’s clay from another place and glued them and afterwards plastered them over with dung, it is pure, and the same law applies when he plastered them with clay/mud, all the while that he did not go back and smelt it in a kiln.

חרס מחזיק רביעית – and such as that the earthenware comes from a jar [that is susceptible to become impure] that holds from a LOG until a SEAH, that its measurement is with a quarter-of-a-LOG as was explained above (see Tractate Kelim, Chapter 2, Mishnah 2).

כולן מטמאין במגע – and all of them are made into a handle for that potsherd and defile because of that handle. And [the part] opposite it only defiles through its airspace, for there is no airspace to the handle of an earthenware vessel.