Parah 12:8 - 12:9

שנטמאו אחוריו (that the outer side of which was made unclean) – with impure liquids. That for the rest of the pure things its inside was not defiled, but for purification/sin-offering, it is not the case.

הזוג והענבל (the bell/body of the bell and the clapper) – for if he sprinkled upon one of them, its fellow is pure. And a זוג – is the bell, and the ענבל is the hammer that is inside that strikes the bell that through it strikes/knocks/tingles.

כוש של רובן (a reed used as a spindle of coarse weft/material) – a spindle/distaff that they weave meshes; it is the bulrushes/reed-grass that they make matting.

לא על כוש ולא על הפיקה (not on the reed used as a spindle and not on whorl/ring) – meaning to say, he should not sprinkle on this one alone, nor on that one alone, for there is no attachment/connection. But he must sprinkle upon both of them.

פיקה – what they place at the end of the reed used as a spindle to make it heavy is called a פיקה/whorl/ring. It is called PURSLAV in the foreign language.

ואם הזה – on one of them alone (and not upon both the reed and the whorl/ring), it is considered sprinkled. And Maimonides explained, not on the reed used as a spindle and not on the whorl/ring, but rather on a copper reed that they would regularly put at the tip of the reed/spindle that is called a צנורא/hook or pivot. And upon it they would sprinkle because it is the essence of the vessel, and the sprinkle would rise up to the reed and the whorl.

של פשתן חיבור – that the spindle that they spin on it flax, it is manner is that the whorl is attached to the reed/spindle.

עור של עריסה (leather sheet in the cradle/cot – which is attached to knobs) – leather that they place in the cradle of a baby, and it is the practice that it is attached in the cot/cradle.

המלבן (the frame/base)- like a kind of bowls of hollowed out wood that they bring into it the legs of the bed so that it would not decay from the moisture of the ground. And something similar to it is found in Tractate Bava Batra in the chapter המוכר את הבית (chapter 4, folio 69a), the sockets for the legs of a bedstead.

אינו חיבור לא לטומאה – that if this one was defiled, the other was not defiled.

ולא לטהרה – that if he sprinkled on this one, he did not sprinkle on that one.

הקדוחות חיבור (vessels that have drilled/bored handles are considered attached/connected) – as for example the handles of knives that the iron enters into the sleeve of the handle of wood or of stone is attached to it, it is a connection, if one of them is defiled, its fellow is defiled, and similarly, if one sprinkled on one of them, the he sprinkled on its fellow. קדוחות is the language of borer.

אף החרוקות (even those that are wedged in/squeezed into holes)- It is the language of (Lamentations 2:16): "[All your enemies leer at you; They hiss] and gnash their teeth, [And cry: ‘We’ve ruined her! Ah, this is the day we hoped for; We have lived to see it!].” Meaning to say, even the handles which are sharp/pointed at their tips and they bring in their sharpness in the hole that they make at the tip of the vessel, such as the handle of a spear, even those are a connection. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yohanan ben Nuri.

הסלים שבקנתל (the baskets in the pannier on the side of the pack-saddle) – baskets where it was their practice to carry in them produce or manure upon the donkey and they are attached to each other.

מטה של טרבל (threshing sledge – of a couch - consisting of a wooden platform studded underneath with sharp pieces of flint or with iron teeth) – like a species of wood of bronze with which they thresh the grain.

קרן של כליבה (the movable supports of the bier – or the ring for keeping the corpse in position) – the bier of the corpse that they make it like a kind of beam of bronze/copper and they tie to it the bier of the corpse so that it doesn’t fall. And they call the bier of the corpses a כליבה, which is made like coop/shed of fowl.

וקרנים של יוצאי דרכים (horns of those who travel) – the horns of cattle and wild beasts that they carry with them travelers to fill them with water to drink.

ושלשלת המפתחות – chain that suspend upon it keys.

ושלל של כובסים (washers’ materials loosely stitched together -see also Tractate Uktzin, Chapter 2, Mishnah 6) – it is the practice of washers to make chain-stitches of clothing one with another, the small with the large in order that it not become lost.

והבגד שהוא תפור בכלאים – two pieces of woolen clothing that were sewn with threads of flax that ultimately would be separated because of the prohibition of [use of] mixed seeds/threads. And similarly, the washers’ material loosely stitched together that ultimately would be separated, and even so, it is a connection for defilement.