Keilim 29:8 - 30:1

מגריפה (ladle – of the household) – that they remove/sweep ashes/coals from the oven and double stove, or the plaster/clay. The Aramaic translation of (Numbers 4:14): “[Upon I they shall place all the vessels that are used in its service: the fire pans, the flesh hooks,] the scrapers/יעים [and the basins – all the vessels of the altar – and over it they shall spread a covering of dolphin skin;]”is מגרופייתא /from ladles.

ושל סיידים (of plasterers) – that they remove the plaster/lime.

יתר מכן – more than these measures that the Sages counted in the hand of the ladle, if he wants this preservation of the extra length.

טמא – if the vessel is defiled, and similarly, if the defilement came in contact with all of this length of the handle, the vessel is defiled with it, for it is a connector to the vessel.

יד משמשי אור (shaft of fire implements) – such as the handle of the spit and the lattice-work of a fire place and the deep and covered plan, and other vessels and their utensils/implements through the fire.

כלי זכוכית – This Mishnah is taught above in Chapter 2 [Mishnah 1] and Chapter 15 [Mishnah 1] and since it was necessary to teach the law of these vessels of glass, he returns and teaches them once again here.

טבלא – table.

אסקוטלא (a salver or a waiter of nearly square form) – in the foreign language, we call a dish SHEKOTILA. But here we are speaking of a flat dish, which does not have a receptacle, but rather that from underneath it, a small receptacle is connected to it that serves when we turn it upside down on its face, similar to what our silver and glass cups have.

יש להן לבזבז (they have a vertical rim/edge – by which a flat vessel is made into a vessel—like receptacle) – a rim all around, the vertical rim makes it a vessel that has a receptacle.

שולי קערה ושולי אסקוטלא (bottoms of a flat dish) – when the place of their usage is broken, there remains a small receptacle and he turns it over and uses it, but nevertheless they are ritually pure, for the rims are not considered a vessel, because the place of the break that injuries the hands when they hold it.

קרטסן או שפן (if he scraped them or filed them) – he repaired them and made them smooth until their were appropriate to be used in the same receptacle, they are impure, for they are no longer the shards of a vessel.

בשופין (with files) – a vessel that that refines and iron artisans remove the rust/mold and smooth/level the vessels. The Aramaic translation of הצריפים/those who smelt, refine is שופינא/file. LIMA in the foreign language.