Keilim 29:2 - 29:3

שלש כסתות של צמר (three woolen cushions) – that are sewn this one with that one like washers’ materials loosely stitched together (see also Tractate Shabbat 48b). Alternatively, woven together, similar to those who weave napkins whose manner is to leave a separation between each napkin and they are connected with threads of the warp/in the longitudinal direction and it has no woof/latitudinal direction. And all of these are taught in the Mishnah, here each one according to its number or less is a connection, but if defilement came in contact with one of them, all of them are defiled. But if they were impure, and dust was sprinkled from the [Red] Heifer on one of them, all of them are purified. But more than this number, there is no connection, not for defilement nor for sprinkling.

סבריקין (a sort of trousers) – there are those who teach [the word as] ספריקין. There are those who explain it as trousers/undergarments, drawers. And there are those who explain as a kind of gloves made from wool that we dress the hands in them and cover the arms until the joint which touches the rib/elbow.

גלופקרין (woolly bed-covers, blankets) – thick covering of wood that they wear at the time of the cold [weather].

חיבור לטומאה ואינו חיבור להזאה – for a stringency. If defilement came in contact with one them, it is a connection and all of them were defiled. But if one of them was sprinkled, it is not a connection, and he didn’t purify anything other than that one that was sprinkled upon alone.

ר' יוסי אומר אף לא לטומאה – but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yossi.

חוט המשקולת (plumb-line) – The builders take hold of a thread/cord In their hands, and at its top is lead and they lower it opposite the wall to see that it should not be curved.

חרשין – carpenters of wood.

ושל בנאים – those who build high and large walls, and a plumb-line [mentioned] in the first clause [of the Mishnah] is aught other than twelve [handbreadths], we are speaking of something designated for small buildings.

יתר מכאן – more than these measurements that the Sages counted for each and every one, even though that he desires their existence, the excess over the measurement is ritually pure and it is not a connector to the vessel.

ושל סיידים (that of plasterers) – who plaster the face of the walls with lime/plaster, and they also require [the use of] a plumb-line, and similarly the painters who paint images on the walls.

כל שהן – whether a lot or a little, it is a connector.