Keilim 23:4 - 23:5

המטה והכר והכסת (the bed and the mattress and the cushion) – even though that the corpse does not defile through treading, and these are made for a corpse but not to sit upon, even so, they defile through treading, because the women sit upon them [and bewail their dead] (see Tosefta Kelim Bava Batra, Chapter 2, Halakha 8).

ומשבר של חיה (the travailing chair of the midwife) – the sitting place of the woman who is giving birth. We translate into Aramaic that of (Exodus 1:16): “[When you deliver the Hebrew women, look] at the birthstool: on the travailing chair/על מתברא.

שהוא כורם עליו (upon which he piles the clothes – to press them) – we have this reading. Meaning to say, that he folds and repairs there the clothing.

אמר ר' יוסי אין בהן משום מושב – and our Mishnah of the chapter that is above (Tractate Kelim, Chapter 22, Mishnah 7) where it is taught: "כסא של כלה שנטלו חפויו"/”Also a chair of the bride whose seat boards have been removed” which implies that if the seat boards had not been removed it is ritually impure. This is in conflict with Rabbi Yossi. But the Halakha is not in accordance with Rabbi Yossi.

החרם (the fish net) – it is the language of (Ecclesiastes 7:26): “[Now, I find woman more bitter than death;] she is all traps, [her hands are fetters and her heart is snares].” A net is made from threads that are tied one to the other, and in it are many incisions, but that there is a bit at the bottom of the net that is woven like clothing which is called זוטו/a catch, a bag-like receptacle for catch in the fisher’s net;/the solid web of the net-work (being a receptacle of solid web). And the entire net is susceptible to receiving defilement because of the webbing like clothing that is at its bottom.

הרשתות והמכמרות (the nets and the traps) – kinds of traps that they hunt wild beasts, and birds and fish.

מדף (clap-board, trap for birds) – the hunters that hunt birds bring a board of wood and place underneath the board [pieces of] wheat or broken pieces [of barley] , and the bird comes to eat them and the board falls upon it and it is captured.

פלצור (a kind of snare, press) – a kind of wooden trap.

הסכרין (the skeins of the fisherman/water-locks for fishing purposes) – that close up and dam in/bar the water, it is the language of (Genesis 8:2): “The fountains of the deep [and the floodgates of the sky] were stopped up.”

טמאים – they are susceptible to receive defilement if the came in contact with a corpse or a reptile.

אקון (reed basket used as a fisher’s cauf) – a basket that they hunt in it fish.

רטוב (basket made of green twigs, used as a bird’s trap) – a basket that they hunt birds with.

כלוב (shed, coop, twisted together) – it is made from wicker of a folded willow or from reed-grass, and there is a cavity in the center, or less between each wicker, and they place birds there. And we call it GEVIAH in the foreign tongue. And in Scripture (Jeremiah 5:27): “As a cage is full of birds, [so their houses are full of guile;].”