Keilim 5:9 - 5:10

תנור שבא מחותך – that the artisan made it board/plank by board/plank in order to attach them together through rims, and they are crowns/wreaths that they call TZIRKELAAH, like the kind that we make for jugs when we place in them wine. And for those crowns/wreaths and rims – the Tanna/teacher calls למודין/frames.

ונתנן עליו והוא טהור נטמא – after he placed upon it the frame and the oven was pure from the outset because it was a series of boards/planks and there was no attachment. It returned to be susceptible to receive defilement through these frames when they attach them.

סילק את למודיו – and the boards/planks were taken apart one from the other, there is no greater breaking up/cutting out than this, and the oven becomes pure, even though he restored the frames a second time, they do not receive [ritual] impurity for the frames do not bring defilement other than only the first time when it comes in pieces from the house of the artisan.

מרחו בטיט [he plastered it with plaster] – for this oven for the frames do not bring him the defilement, but it defiles through the plastering with plaster.

ואין צריך להסיקו – [he doesn’t need to heat it] like all the other ovens, for it doesn’t become susceptible to receive defilement until he heats them, because it was already heated the first time when it comes in pieces from the house of the artisan.

חתכו חוליות – when he cut it for the oven breadthwise into pieces, and placed one tile on top of another tile.

ונתן חול בסין חוליא לחוליא – and plastered it with plaster and made it plaster in the manner that they that make for ovens.

ר' אליעזר מטהר – for since there is sand between the fissures, it is like it is broken.

וחכמים מטמאין – for the plaster makes all of it one and connects/attaches all of the fissures, and even though there is sand between each tile.

וזהו תנורו של עכנאי – therefore it is called “The Oven of Akhnai,” that they encircled it with Halakhot like this snake and defiled it (see Tractate Berakhot 19a and Tractate Bava Metzia 59b). עכנא is a snake, that its custom is to make itself like a circle and to have its tail enter into its mouth, such is how they surrounded with responses and proofs of Rabbi Eliezer and the Sages each with the other, on this oven. And at the end, because Rabbi Eliezer was an individual [opinion] against the majority (i.e., the Sages), the law was decided like the Sages and not according to Rabbi Eliezer. And they brought all of the pure things that Rabbi Eliezer declared pure and burned them in fire and the decided to excommunicate him, because he encouraged dispute against the majority view.

יורות הערביין (cauldrons/improvised fire places of the Arabs/a cavity in the ground laid out with clay) – they are made to break bread, as will be explained further on.

של בן דינאי – My Rabbis explained the name of a person who would make these ovens (see Tractate Sotah, Chapter 9, Mishnah 9). And I heard that is on account of the fact that they judged many laws.