Keilim 28:2 - 28:3

לפוק (to fill up a gap) – to stop up holes that are in the bath house so that the heat doesn’t leave.

ולנער בו את הקדרה (to empty out the contents of the pot/dish) – to hold on to the pot in order to pour from it into a dish or into a tray.

בין מוכן בין שאינו מוכן (whether kept in readiness or not) – in the Chapter, “With what [wicks] do we kindle [Sabbath lights]” {Tractate Shabbat folio 29a--b, chapter 2) it proves that when he places it in a box, everyone doesn’t argue about it that it is ritually impure, for it is his intention. But when he throws it into the trash, everyone doesn’t argue about it that it is ritually pure, for he has voided it. Where they argue is where he suspended it upon a frame to spread clothes on, KOYLIYA in the foreign language, or left it behind the door. Rabbi Eliezer holds that whether he left it upon a frame to spread clothes on, that it appears as ready to throw it in the garbage, or whether he left it behind the door, that it appears that is not ready concerning leaving it in a box, it is always impure as long as he didn’t throw it into the garbage. But Rabbi Yehoshua holds that it is always pure all the time that he did not put it in a box. But Rabbi Akiba holds that suspending it upon a fame to spread clothes on, it is [considered] ready and it is as if he placed it in a box and it is impure, but if he left it behind the door, it is [considered] that it is not ready, for it is as if he threw it into the garbage and it is ritually pure. But there (in Tractate Shabbat 29a-b), it concludes that Rabbi Akiba retracted in favor of the opinion of Rabbi Yehoshua. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yehoshua.

אספלנית (plaster) – a bandage/dressing that they make from milk, and wax and butter and [olive] oil and similar things. And they strike a plaster/rub a salve on the cloth or on the [leather] hide or they place it on the wound and it is repulsive, for the cloth nor the hide are appropriate any longer for sitting or for any other use.

מלוגמא (poultice/plaster) – a bandage/dressing that is made from flour and figs and similar things, that a person chews and places upon the wound. And an explanation [of the word] מלוגמא is a mouthful/quantity of liquid filling one cheek.

בבגד טהור – because the cloth is repulsive and is voided and is further not appropriate for use.

ובעור טמא – because the poultice does not cling on the hide like on the cloth, and the hide is not voided through this.

מפני שהיא ננערת (because it is shaken off) – after it dried up from upon the cloth, it is shaken off and is detached on its own from upon the cloth and all the soiling departs. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon ben Gamaliel.