Keilim 13:8 - 14:1

מסרק של פשתן – it has multiple teeth like long needles that are inserted in wood, and through it, they comb the flax.

ונשתייר בו שתים טמא – if there did not remain on it anything other than two teeth alone, the comb is ritually impure, for it is still worthy for their work.

אחת אחת בפני עצמו טמאות – each and every tooth on its own that had been removed from the comb is ritually impure, for it is worthy to write with it in a wax tablet.

ושל צמר – a wool comb.

אחת מבינתיים – from every three adjacent [teeth], the middle one was removed, it furthermore is not worthy [for use].

היה החיצונה אחת מהן טהור – the outer tooth of the comb is wide and is not appropriate to comb with it, for it is like the outer [tooth] that is on the head of our com, therefore, if the outer [tooth] is one from the three that remained, the comb is ritualluy pure, for it is not appropriate to comb with it for there are only two teeth here.

ועשאן למלקטת (he makes use of them as pinchers) – to gather the hair in them.

והתקינה לנר – to remove the wick and/or to cleanse the lamp through it.

ולמיתוח (stretching pin) – We have the reading [מיתוח], that is to stretch the rim of he cloth in the manner of the weavers who [insert] a needle in the rim of the cloth in order that they can stretch its rims.

כלי מתכות – that became defective/cracked or broken.

כמה הוא שיעורן – how much will be the measurement of the break/fracture that remains from them and that he can call it that it is doing of the nature of its labor and will be considered as vessels to be [susceptible to be] made impure.

מיחם (usually, a vessel for heating water – but here used for keeping coins in it – see Tosefta Bava Metziah 4:1) – that they warm up water in it. But it is larger than a kettle.

כדי לקבל סלעים – for each Selah is four denarim.

הלבס (a cauldron) – And there those who have the reading הלפס . And it is a larger copper vessel that they boil water in it and place in it small ladles to rinse them in it.

כולן בפרוטות – in all of them they estimate if they have in their crack/broken part enough to receive coins. But the Halakha did not according to Rabbi Eliezer.

המחוסר הגפה טמא (missing the fragment of a vessel in order to be used/trimming) – Rabbi Akiva is speaking of the beginning of the formation of the vessels, and is speaking of, that vessels lacking their coverings are ritually impure, for they are called as having been completed for their usage. [The word] הגפה from the language (Nehemiah 7:3): “let the doors be closed and barred.” And there are many in the Mishnah [where this word appears – specifically in Tractate Avodah Zarah, Chapter 5, Mishnayot 3, 4 and 5]: “[time sufficient] to open [the jar] and stop it up and for the clay to dry.” Even if he corked them, he didn’t acquire them, that is in Tractate Maaser Sheni [Chapter 3, Mishnah 12], it explains, that he covered them with a bung/cork.

ומחוסר לטישה טהור – that it is considered unfinished metal vessels that are not susceptible to receive ritual impurity. [The word] לטישה/hammering, furbishing, is the language of (Genesis 4:22): “who forged all implements of copper and iron.”