Keilim 12:2 - 12:3

קנה מאזנים של סרוקות (the beam of the balance of wool combers/dealers in hatchelled wool) – those who hatchel wool or flax, and sell it a number of liters/measures of capacity, when they want to weigh, they have a long wooden rod and it is suspended at its head like a ring from above., and hooks of iron are suspended from below in a chain, made like hooks and their heads are bent from above. And there is for that rod another ring that goes over the face of the rod and one is not able to go out from it, and it is like a polished block/bar of iron or of thick and heavy copper suspended in that ring, and when he comes to weigh a bag of wool or of yarn, e inserts the hook in the sack and holds the ring that corresponds to it above and raises it in the air, and the ring that has the bar/polished block of iron is suspended removed from the ring that holds it, and it weighs down on the beam until it comes straight and does not bend to any side more, and because the distance of the ring that contains bar/polished block of iron, he knows the number/accounting of the weight, which has symbols on a rod, until here is one Liter, until there, ten, until there – one hundred, and this is called in the language of Scripture פלס , as it is written (Isaiah 40:12): “And weighed the mountains with a scale [and the hills with a balance],” [and] (Proverbs 16:11): “Honest scales and weights are the LORD’s; [All the weights in the bag are His work].”

ושל בעלי בתים – they don’t regularly place in it hooks which are the hooks that they insert in a sake to raise it, but without hooks, they tie it with a rope and suspend it on a pole. We have the reading אונקליות but we don’t have the reading אונקיות.

אונקלי של כתפין (hooks of porters/carriers) – a long piece of wood like a kind of balancing pole/staff that the porter places on his shoulder and suspends on it two bags – one in front of him and another behind him with two iron hooks that are inserted in the balancing pole/staff on its two sides.

של רוכלין – those who sell spices and women’s perfumes.

טמאה – because it has a receptacle.

שלפניו טמאה – because he uses it.

ושלאחריו טהורה – that he doesn’t use it other than for protection, so that the burden will not fall from behind him, but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

דרגש (footstool in front of a high bed/state bed with its footstool) – a small bed of leather and they suspend straps at the rim of the leather around and there are iron hooks along the length of the bed and when they wish to stretch it they intertwine/fasten by means of a loop with those hooks.

נקליטין (poles of the bedstead, connected by a cross-pole over which a net is spread to form a slanting cover/curtain frame) – two pillars/posts that they place in the middle of the walls of the bed, one from its head and the other from its feet, and it is forked/split at their head, and they place a beam from this side to that and spread over it a sheet. But sometimes the pillars are not forked/split, but it is like two hooks that they place at the top of the poles of the bedstead/curtain frame, and these are hooks.

שידה – a small chest.

אקון (reed basket) – a chest that hunters make to hunt fish with.

כל המחובר לטמא – a hook that is attached to a vessel that is susceptible to receive ritual impurity is impure.

לטהור – as for example, a wooden candelabrum which is ritually pure is pure.

אחת אחת בפני עצמה – every hook that is separated from tis vessel.

טהורה – because it doesn’t have a name of its own.

טני (metal cover of a box) – it is a metal vessel that holds three Kab. And it is from the language of "ושמת בטנא" (Deuteronomy 26:2): “put it in a basket.” And owners of homes use it when they place there the rubbish of fragments/shards from metal vessels.

רבן גמליאל מטמא – for he holds that thee cover is considered a vessel since it has a receptacle.

וחכמים מטהרין – for they hold that a cover is not considered a vessel. But the Halakha is according to the Sages.

ושל רופאים טמא – according to everyone. This is because doctors place drugs in them.

מגדל – a storehouse of wood. In the foreign language ARMARIO. And in Arabic ALMENSAR.

ושל רופאים טמאה – because they place upon it a compress/rag and suspends on it the scissors.

יתוכין – tongs that they take the vessel with them when he cast/poured on it the silver to empty it into another vessel.

הפריכין (the bars of a grate through which poking is done) – in the Tosefta (see Tosefta Kelim Bava Metzia 2:10) it explains what are the bars of a grate through which the poking is done? That are established as iron tools for crowding olives into the vat. But my teachers did not explain it to me.

עקרב בית הבד(the iron-shod part of the pressbeam) – curved iron that is similar to a scorpion, that is affixed in the beam of the olive press when they press the olives.

אונקלי שבכתלים – iron hooks that are affixed in the walls to suspend vessels on them.

טהורים – for their use is only with the ground.