Keilim 21:3 - 22:1

מגרה (saw) – iron filled with notches that we saw with it the tablets and boards. And in the foreign language it is SIGA. And the saw has two pieces of wood, one from this side and another from the other side, and through them the carpenter/artisan captures wood and at the time that he saws the tablets, and these pieces of wood are a handle for the saw. But if the saw became defiled, a person who comes in contact with/touches them is impure, for they are handles to it.

בחוט ובמשיחה (the string and the rope of the saw) – at the top of these pieces of wood which are handles, they tie a string or a rope or a rope’s length that goes over the length of the saw and attaches between its teeth and preserves it.

באמה (crosspiece) – a long piece of wood that is the middle of these two pieces of wood and goes throughout the length of the saw is called an אמה".”

בסניפין (the side-pieces of the saw which hold the blade, and the wedge with which the cord is twisted) – a small piece of wood that is placed from the string and the rope of the saw until the crosspiece, and upon it, it twists and makes a fringe of the string and the rope of the saw, and one head is within the thread and the other is within the crosspiece, and sometimes he would put two there.

מכבש (carpenter’s vise for straightening wood) – it is a place that the carpenter has for wood that he presses and detains the curved pieces of wood and the curved tablets/boards and the crooked pieces in order to straighten them, and similarly, he detains there the wood and the boards that they should not move this way or that until he repairs them for his work.

קשטנית (bow=shaped handle of a borer, “bow-drill”) – like a kind of small bow of wood that they insert in it the iron of a borer when he wants to bore/penetrate into it, but when a person holds the bow and rolls the iron in it, but if the iron is impure, the bow is not defiled, for it is not considered an attachment, for it was their practice to not attach the bow to the iron.

מסר הגדול – large saw that is made to saw beams, and they make it like a kind of square from thin pieces of wood and the saw is in the middle and that square is called a frame.

טהור – the part that is impure is only that of the place of the holding of the handle alone. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

יתר (bow-string) – the cord of the bow. It is the language of (Psalms 11:2): “they set their arrow on the string.”

אע"פ שהיא מתחוה (even though it is stretched out) – even though the arrow in the bow-string and in the bow is stretched to shoot it, and the arrow is is defiled, the bow and the bow-string are not defiled, for the arrow is not connected/attached to the bow and the bow-string.

אישות (mole) – it is a creature that has no eyes. And the owl, we translate into Aramaic as moles, and we hunt it because it destroys the fields.

טהורה – that it is not considered a vessel.

כל זמן שהיא מתוחה – and an iron arrow is in it. If the arrow is defiled, the [mole] trap is defiled. Ut the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

השלחן והדלפק (the table and the delphica/a three-legged table used as a toilet table or a waiter) – a wooden vessel that they place upon it flasks and jugs and food and liquids, and from it, they take and place it on the table.

ושייר בהן מקום הנחת כוסות – which was not damaged or that was not covered [with marble], for if all it were covered with marble, it would be pure like a stone vessel, for we follow after its covering.

מקום הנחת חתיכות – of [pieces of] bread and meat. For if there was no place on the table for the placing of pieces [of bread and meat], it is not a table and it is not a delphica/three-legged table used as a waiter. But the Halakha Is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.