Negaim 11:11 - 11:12

כל הראוי ליטמא טמא מת – with wool or flax or with skins.

אע"פ שאינו מיטמא מדרס – such as a cloth of three [fingerbreadths] by three [fingerbreadths], that is not defiled by threading until it has three handbreadths by three handbreadths, and it becomes susceptible to be defiled through contact with a corpse, and all the more so, that everything that becomes susceptible to become defiled through treading becomes susceptible to become defiled through plagues, as long as it is white things that are not colored.

קלע של ספינה ווילון וכו' (sail of a ship and a curtain/veil) – all of these are considered that they are susceptible to be defiled through corpse uncleanness but they are not susceptible to be defiled through treading.

שביס (woolen band with which the hairnet is fastened) – it is the language of “the fillets and the crescents” that is written in Isaiah (3:18).

וגלגלון (girdle of net-work, bandage, wrap) – a belt that they gird him with.

סגוס (a coarse woolen blanket – mentioned usually as a mates to sleep on) – a very thick cloth and it is alike a cloak/cover of hair.

באריג ובמוכין (on the web and on a soft spongy substance/hackled wool, rag) – on the body of the cloak/cover of hair and on the hairs that protrude from it. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Eliezer ben Yaakov.

החמת והתורמל (the waterskin and the shepherd’s leather wallet) – vessels of leather, and they tie them and the leather is folded in the place of the knot, and the plague is in its folds is not seen unless the leather is spread out. And for this it is taught [in the Mishnah]: "נראין כדרכן"/and they are examined in their usual way, meaning to say, that they don’t spread them out, but rather he (i.e., the Kohen) sees it as such as it is . the waterskin, and leather bottle/skin. The תורמל – is like a kind of large leather pocket that the shepherd places his belongings into it.

מתוכו לאחוריו ([and it spreads] from its inside to its outer surface) – if from the outset the plague appears from in its insides, and he was shut up/quarantined, and at the end of the week, the plague appears on its outer surface, it is considered spreading. But n the Tosefta (Tractate Negaim, Chapter 5, Halakha 5:14) it implies, that we are speaking here especially with hides but not with clothing.

בגד מוסגר – that had in it a plague and it became dyed, and the plague is not recognized in it.

כולם טהורים – that which is definite it defiles, but it doesn’t defile that which is doubtful.

ועשאו מוכין – small tears that are less than three [fingerbreadths] by three [fingerbreadths], but they were not separated completely.

כולן טמאין – that since it is joined to defilement/uncleanness, the doubt does not purify it.

טמא ואסור הנאתו – for it requires burning.