Keilim 26:1 - 26:2

סנדל עמקי (sandals worn in valleys) – Sandals that are made in a valley village.

כיס של שנצות (a bag which is closed by means of laces) – like a species of straps inserted in loops at the rim of the pouch and we pull them this way and that and the pouch/bag is closed from itself.

כפיפה מצרית (an Egyptian basket made of palm twigs) – a basket made from the bands made of palm-bark. They bring willows and palm-leaves and tear them and make from them threads and make from them a basket of osier and rope.

סנדל לדיקי (a Laodicean sandal) – that the people of Laodicea make.

הרי אלו מיטהרין ומיטמאין שלא באומן – because all of thee have straps and there is no need to tie them, but he stretches them and they are closed from on their own, and similarly, they open from on their own through other straps that pull them. Like the kind that they make for purses in our places. But if those straps were left over, then they are further not appropriate to close and open with, they are pure. But Rabbi Yossi holds that even though they are permitted, they are impure, since a non-specialist can restore them. Except for the basket of osier, for even the artisan is not able to restore them. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yossi.

שניטלו שנציו (whose laces were removed) – to the Rabbis, we are speaking about that they were not removed completely, but rather that torn loose from the loops, and are still hanging in the bag. But according to Rabbi Yossi, even if they were removed completely, because a non-specialist is able to restore them.

נפשט(when it – the bag – is straightened out – so as to be a plain piece of leather) – the bag and it became like a kind of smooth piece of leather that has no receptacle, it is pure.

טלה עליו את המטלת (if he underlined the bag with a patch on the bottom) – he placed a patch on its rim, that is to say, a small piece of leather that he attached to it from the bottom, for the it is the manner of bags to bring in a small piece of leather between the stitches and when he stretches it out, the the leather remains and it does not annul its receptacle.

לא נטמא חברו – for defilement by liquids to defile vessels is not according to the Torah and is not considered an attachment.

צרור המרגלית (a piece of leather in which jewels are bound up) – they place the pearl within the leather to be protected there and they tie it, and when they remove the pearl, the leather remains like a bag until one goes to the trouble and straightens it out [by stretching it] , on account of that pearl that stood for many days and was tied up.

צרור המעות (a piece of leather in which money is bound up) – like the piece of leather in which jewels are bound up. And the reason that the piece of leather in jewels is bound up defiles more, because it is the manner of the piece of leather in which jewels are bound up to stand more than the piece of leather in which money is bound up, for the piece of leather in which money is bound up is loosened all the time, because it was given for spending. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.