Keilim 12:8 - 13:1

האולר (a penknife) – like a kind of metal scissors that they prepare with it the writing pen/reed.

והקולמוס – of bronze and iron or of silver.

מטוטלת (plumb-line) – iron and lead that is hanging from a rope that the builder holds in his hand to see that the wall will not come to be curved.

והמשקלות – a liter or a half-liter.

והכירון (iron tool for crowding olives into the vat) – an iron vessel in which they insert the olives in an adze that they stop them in it. –

והכן והכנא (measuring rod/ruler and measuring table) – the cubit that they draw lines/rule on books/scrolls, and the table that is underneath it. So the Arukh explained.

גולמי כלי עץ (unfinished wooden utensils) – that their work [in forming them] was not completed. As for example that they are missing a rim or a handle, or their base when they sit upon it, or that tone needs to divide them and to compare them, they are called גולמים/unfinished.

חוץ משל אשכרוע (except for the ones made from boxwood/ebony) – We have this reading. And it is a kind of cedar, תאשור which we translate into Aramaic as boxwood/ebony. And unfinished vessels that were made from this wood, are pure, because its husk/skin is thick and hard, but they are not considered vessels until their husks are removed and the work [in creating/forming them] is completed. But the reading of the Tosefta is: חוץ משל פירשע/except for ebony or box wood (see Tosefta Kelim Bava Metzia 2:19), because they are lacking boiling [before they can be used]. And פירשע/ebony or boxwood is a resinous wood. But vessels made from it – their work is not [considered to be] completed other than through boiling, that we bring them into the fire and we remove seething, overboiled matter and furthermore, they are not fearful that perhaps they will split.

גרופית של זית (a vessel made out of a piece of an olive tree) – a branch of an olive is called a גרופית/a vessel made out of a piece of it, like that of a fig which is called a young shoot [of a fig tree]. But if they made a vessel from a piece of an olive tree, it is an unfinished product and it does not become accessible to receive ritual impurity.

עד שישלק – until we bring them into the fire that will remove their seething/overboiled matter. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

הסיף והסכין והפגיון – a knife that has two mouths is called a dagger.

מגל יד (an implement combining a knife and saw) – a smooth implement made to break bones and to cut wood.

מגל קציר (sickle/scythe – a implement with indentations) – filled with notches and ridges.

השחור (hair-pinchers or razor) – they are small scissors that one shaves with them. And they are called שחור because they remove the hair, that removing and blackening is one thing, and so we state in the chapter "משילין פירות"/ They let down pieces of produce (Tractate Betzah 35b) that the one who taught “you may let fruit slide down [through an aperture in the roof}/משחילין is not erroneous (see also Tractate Bekhorot, Chapter 6, Mishnah 7). But there are those who interpret השחור is a razor.

והזוג של ספרים – larger scissors than the hair-pincher [or] razor.

שנחלקו – that they are of links and they take them apart from each other. And similarly, the razor has those whose handle is not attached and they remove it.

הסמוך ליד – that it is appropriate for work more, but near the head, he fears lest it wound his hand. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yossi.

מספורת שנחלקה (shears which are divided [into two]) – they are women’s scissors, and when they are divided, each one is fit for cutting.

וחכמים מטהרין – since it was broken. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.