Keilim 28:8 - 28:9

בגדי עניים – which are made from small individual pieces, and there isn’t in all of them one whole piece that has three [fingerbreadths] by three [fingerbreadths].

הרי אלו טמאים מדרס – for since there is in all of the cloth as a whole three handbreadths by three handbreadths or more, the entire cloth is impure with treading uncleanness.;

כיון שנקרע רובה אינו חיבור – but if the one end is defiled, the other end is not defiled.

העבים והרכים – the most thick and huge clothing, such as the thick, full or felted stuff and the large ones. And the most soft and thin, such as that of silk and that which is hatchelled.

אין בהן משום שלש על שלש – and they are not defiled through corpse defilement nor the rest of the defilements until there they will have three-handbreadths or more, because [less than] three [fingerbreadths] by three [fingerbreadths] is not worth anything.

כסת הסבלין (the cushion which load-carriers wear on their heads) – that carry loads on their shoulders or on their heads, there is small cushion on their heads or upon their shoulders so that the load doesn’t damage them, and sometimes they sit upon it.

משמרת של יין אין בה משום מושב (the strainer for wine is not susceptible to sitting uncleanness) – for we don’t sit on it because of the sediment.

סבכה של זקנה טמאה מושב (the head-dress/net of an old woman is not susceptible to sitting uncleanness) – because of what is taught in the chapter “Three Shields”/שלשה תריסין (Tractate Kelim, Chapter 24, Mishnah 16), that the head-dress/net of an elderly woman is defiled through corpse uncleanness, that is implies, but not because of seating, it is necessary to explain that there are two kinds of head-dress/nets for elderly women, one that is not appropriate for sitting up and it is defiled through corpse uncleanness, and the other head-dress/net, sometimes she sits upon it, and the Mishnah here comes t to teach that it is susceptible to sitting.

חלוק של יוצאת החוץ – it is the Aramaic translation of a whore – a creature that goes out.

עשוי כדבכה – it has many windows like the making of a net and her skin can be seen outside.

מן החרם (from the net) – from the net-work. And his skin is seen, therefore it is pure.

מן זוטו (from the fishing net/solid web of network) – there is at the bottom of the netting a bit that is woven made in the cloth. And it is called זוטו של רשת /webbing of the net.

וכפלו (and doubled it up) – and he doubled up the netting and sewed it, and his skin is not seen from within it.

טמא – for it is considered a cloth. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eliezer ben Yaakov.