## Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim Chapter 4

###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:1:1
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**הַחֶרֶס שֶׁאֵינוֹ יָכוֹל לַעֲמֹד.** כְּגוֹן חֶרֶס הַפּוֹרֵשׁ מִן הֶחָבִית וּמִן הַקְּדֵרָה בִּמְקוֹם הָאֹזֶן, וְאֵינוֹ יָכוֹל לַעֲמֹד בְּלֹא סְמִיכָה מִפְּנֵי כֹבֶד הָאֹזֶן שֶׁמַּכְבִּיד וּמַכְרִיעוֹ, אוֹ מִפְּנֵי שֶׁהָיָה בּוֹ חִדּוּד שֶׁהוּא חַד בְּתַחְתִּיתוֹ וְאֵינוֹ יָכוֹל לָשֶׁבֶת שֶׁלֹּא מְסֻמָּךְ:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
החרס שאינו יכול לעמוד – such as a shard that separates from the jug or from the pot in the place of the ear/handle, and it is not able to stand without support because of the weight of the ear/handle that makes it heavy and outweighs it, or because it had in it a pointed knob which is sharp at its bottom and it cannot sit [straight] without being supported.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:1:2
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**נִטְּלָה הָאֹזֶן טָהוֹר.** דִּכְלִי חֶרֶס כֵּיוָן שֶׁטָּהַר שָׁעָה אַחַת שׁוּב אֵין לוֹ טֻמְאָה לְעוֹלָם:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
נטלה האוזן טהור – for an earthenware vessel that is pure for one hour, it furthermore will not ever have defilement.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:1:3
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**וְרַבִּי יְהוּדָה מְטַמֵּא.** דְּלֵית לֵיהּ הַךְ סְבָרָא:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
ור' יהודה מטמא – for he doesn’t hold this reasoning.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:1:4
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**אוֹ שֶׁנֶּחְלְקָה.** לְאָרְכָּהּ כְּמִין שְׁתֵּי עֲרֵבוֹת, וְאֵינָהּ יְכוֹלָה לֵישֵׁב עַל תַּחְתֶּיהָ אֶלָּא עַל דָּפְנוֹתֶיהָ:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
או שנחלקה –[or that was split] lengthwise like two troughs, and is unable to sit on its bottom other than on its sides.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:1:5
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**רַבִּי יְהוּדָה מְטַהֵר.** דְּסָבַר רַבִּי יְהוּדָה דְהָא דִתְנַן הַדַּקִּים שֶׁבִּכְלֵי חֶרֶס יוֹשְׁבִים שֶׁלֹּא מְסֻמָּכִים שֶׁהֵן טְמֵאִים, הַיְנוּ מִן הַשּׁוּלַיִם וְלֹא מִן הַדְּפָנוֹת, שֶׁצָּרִיךְ שֶׁיִּהְיֶה שֶׁבֶר הַכְּלִי יוֹשֵׁב עַל שׁוּלָיו כְּדֶרֶךְ שֶׁיּוֹשֵׁב כְּשֶׁהוּא שָׁלֵם:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
רבי יהודה מטהר – for Rabbi Yehuda holds that as it is taught in the Mishnah (Tractate Kelim, Chapter 2, Mishnah 2): “The smallest/thinnest of earthenware vessels that sits without supports are impure, that is from the rims and not from the sides, that there needs to be a shard of the of the vessel sitting on its rim in the manner that it sits when it is whole.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:1:6
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**וַחֲכָמִים מְטַמְּאִין.** דְּסָבְרֵי כֵלִים עֲשׂוּיִין לְהוֹשִׁיבָן עַל דָּפְנוֹתֵיהֶן לִפְרָקִים:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
וחכמים מטמאין – for they hold that vessels that are made to set them on their sides periodically.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:2:1
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**וְאֵינָהּ יְכוֹלָה לְהִטַּלְטֵל בַּחֲצִי קַב גְּרוֹגָרוֹת.** מִתּוֹךְ שֶׁהִיא רְעוּעָה וְהַגְּרוֹגָרוֹת מַכְבִּידִים נִשְׁבֶּרֶת לְגַמְרֵי בְטִלְטוּלָהּ. וּלְכָךְ שִׁעֲרוּ בַחֲצִי קַב, דְּהוּא שִׁעוּר סְעוּדָה אַחַת. דְּקַב גְּרוֹגָרוֹת הוּא שִׁעוּר שְׁתֵּי סְעוּדוֹת, כִּדְמוּכָח בְּסוֹף מַסֶּכֶת פֵּאָה גַבֵּי אֵין פּוֹחֲתִין לֶעָנִי בַגֹּרֶן מִקַּב גְּרוֹגָרוֹת. וְכָל דְּלֹא חַזְיָא לְטַלְטֵל בָּהּ שִׁעוּר סְעוּדָה אַחַת, כִּשְׁבוּרָה דָּמְיָא:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
ואינה יכולה להטלטל בחצי קב גרוגרות – because it is cracked/broken, and the dried figs weigh down upon the broken parts completely while being carried. And therefore, its measure is one-half-of-a-Kab, which is the measure of one meal. For a Kab of dried figs is the measure for two meals as it is proven at the end of the Tractate Peah (Chapter 8, Mishnah 5): “[When dispensing poor man’s tithe], they may give to the por at the threshing floor no less than…one Kab of dried figs.” But everything that is not worthy to carry in it the measure of one meal is like something that is broken.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:2:2
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**גִּסְטְרָא.** כְּלִי חֶרֶס שֶׁנֶּחְלַק לִשְׁנַיִם, וְנַעֲשָׂה גִיסֵי תְּרֵי:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
גיסטרא (see Tractate Kelim, Chapter 2, Mishnah 6 – something defective/broken) – an earthenware vessel that is split into two, and it becomes two sides.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:2:3
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**שֶׁאֵין שְׁיָרִים לִשְׁיָרִים.** כְּלִי שָׁלֵם חָסִים עָלָיו וּמִשּׁוּם סֶדֶק פּוּרְתָּא לֹא שָׁדוּ לֵיהּ, וּמְבִיאִין שְׁיָרִים שֶׁל כְּלִי דְהַיְנוּ שֶׁבֶר כְּלִי וּמְשִׂימִין תַּחְתָּיו, אֲבָל שֶׁבֶר כְּלִי מִכִּי נִסְדַּק בְּמוֹצִיא מַשְׁקֶה מִשְׁדָא שָׁדוּ לֵיהּ, שֶׁאֵין אוֹמְרִים הָבֵא שֶׁבֶר כְּלִי אַחֵר לְהָנִיחַ תַּחַת שֶׁבֶר כְּלִי זֶה:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
שאין שיריים לשיריים – we have compassion upon a complete vessel and because of a small crack, we don’t pour into it [liquids] and we bring the remnants of the vessel, that is the shards of a vessel and place them underneath it. But the shards of a vessel when it is cracked it releases liquid we throw it out, for we don’t say: bring a shard of one vessel to place underneath the shard of this vessel.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:3:1
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**כֹּל שֶׁנִּטְּלוּ אָזְנֶיהָ.** חֲשׁוּבָה גִסְטְרָא, וַאֲפִלּוּ הִיא שְׁלֵמָה, הוֹאִיל וְאֵין לָהּ אָזְנַיִם לְטַלְטְלָהּ מִמָּקוֹם לְמָקוֹם. וְאִם נִתְרוֹעֲעָה, שִׁעוּרָהּ כְּמוֹצִיא מַשְׁקֶה:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
כל שנטלו אזניה – [when its handles have been removed] – it is considered defective/broken, fo since it lacks handles to carry it from place to place, and if it was cracked, its measure is like as it releases liquid.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:3:2
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**הָיוּ בָהּ חִדּוּדִים.** סְתָם חֶרֶס שֶׁנִּשְׁבָּר יוֹצְאִין מִמֶּנּוּ חִדּוּדִים. כְּמוֹ [אִיּוֹב מא] חַדּוּדֵי חָרֶס:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
היו בה חדודים (if there were prongs projecting from the bottom of the misshaped vessel) – a mere earthenware [vessel] that was broken, there projects from [its bottom] prongs, as [it states in] (Job 41:22): “His underpart is jagged shards; [It spreads a threshing sledge on the mud].”


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:3:3
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**כֹּל הַמְקַבֵּל עִמָּהּ בְּזֵיתִים.** אִם אֵין כַּזַּיִת יוֹצֵא בֵּין חִדּוּד לְחִדּוּד, חֲשׁוּב תּוֹךְ כְּמוֹ הַגִּסְטְרָא עַצְמָהּ וּמִטַּמֵּא אֲפִלּוּ בַאֲוִיר. אֲבָל אִם יוֹצֵא זַיִת מִבֵּינְתַיִם, אֵינוֹ מִטַּמֵּא בַאֲוִיר. אֲבָל מִטַּמֵּא בְמַגָּע מִטַּעַם יָד:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
כל המקבל עמה בזיתים – if an olive does not protrude between each prong, it is considered as “inside” like the גיסטרא/defective receptacle itself and defiles even the airspace, but if the olive does not protrude from between them, it does not defile airspace, but it does defile through contact by reason of the hand.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:3:4
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**הָיְתָה מֻטָּה עַל צִדָּהּ.** שֶׁנֶּחְלְקָה לְאָרְכָּהּ כְּמִין עֲרֵבָה וְאֵינָהּ יוֹשֶׁבֶת אֶלָּא עַל דָּפְנוֹתֶיהָ וְיֵשׁ לָהּ חִדּוּדִים:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
היתה מוטה על צדה – that it was split by length like a kind of trough and doesn’t sit other than upon its sides/walls and it has prongs projecting.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:3:5
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**כֹּל הַמְקַבֵּל עִמָּהּ בְּזֵיתִים.** כְּדֶרֶךְ שֶׁמִּטַּמְּאָה כְשֶׁיּוֹשֶׁבֶת עַל שׁוּלֶיהָ כָּךְ מִטַּמְּאָה יוֹשֶׁבֶת עַל צִדָּהּ. וּסְתָם מַתְנִיתִין כַּחֲכָמִים דִּלְעֵיל דִּמְטַמְּאִין בֶּחָבִית שֶׁנֶּחְלְקָה כְמִין שְׁנֵי עֲרֵבוֹת:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
כל המקבל עמה בזיתים – in the manner that it defiles when it is sitting on its rim, so also it defiles while sitting on its side. But our anonymous Mishnah is according to the Sages of above (see Tractate Kelim, Chapter 4, Mishnah 1) that defiles regarding a jar that was split like two troughs.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:3:6
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**קַתֶּדְרָא.** כִּסֵּא שֶׁל נָשִׁים הַהֹלְכוֹת עַל הָעֲגָלָה:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
קתדרא – a seat of women that walk on the wagon (see Tractate Kelim, Chapter 24, Mishnah 2).


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:3:7
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**קוֹרְפִיּוֹת.** עַל שֵׁם מְקוֹמָן. וְהֵן כֵּלִים חַדִּים שֶׁאֵין יוֹשְׁבִים שֶׁלֹּא מְסֻמָּכִין:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
קורפיות – on account of their place. But they are sharp vessels that they do not sit upon without support.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:3:8
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**וְקוֹסִים.** לְשׁוֹן קְשׂוֹת הַנָּסֶךְ [בְּמִדְבָּר ה], וּבְסַנְהֶדְרִין הַגּוֹנֵב אֶת הַקַּסְוָא, וְהוּא שֵׁם לִכְלִי שָׁרֵת. וְקוֹסִין הֵן מִינֵי כֵלִים שֶׁשּׁוּלֵיהֶן חַדִּין וּכְשֶׁמְּבַשְּׁלִים בָּהֶן מַנִּיחִין אוֹתָן עַל כְּלִי בַרְזֶל שֶׁקּוֹרִין טריפיד"י בְּלַעַ"ז, וּכְשֶׁמּוֹרִידִים אוֹתָן סוֹמְכִין אוֹתָן בְּאֵפֶר הַכִּירָה:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
וקוסימן – the language of )Numbers 4:7): “[Over the table of display they shall spread a blue cloth; they shall place upon it the bowls, the ladles, the jars,] and the libation jugs.” But in [Tractate] Sanhedrin [Chapter 9, Mishnah 8] “a person who steals the vessel for libation,” and this is the name for the sacred vessels, and קוסים/rough-edged cups are kinds of vessels that their bottoms are sharp and when they cook in them, they place them on an iron vessel that they call TRIPIDI in the foreign language, and when hey lower them, they support them in he ashes of the portable stove on feet.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:3:9
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**הַצִּידוֹנִין.** שֶׁנַּעֲשִׂים בְּצִידוֹן:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
הצידונין – that are made in Sidon.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:4:1
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**שְׂפָיוֹת.** מִלְּשׁוֹן שָׂפָה. שֶׁיֵּשׁ לוֹ שָׁלֹשׁ שְׂפָתוֹת לְפִיו, וַאֲוִיר בֵּינְתַיִם בֵּין שָׂפָה לְשָׂפָה:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
שפאיות – from the language of שפה/rim, border. That it has three rims for its mouth and airspace in-between them. Between each rim.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:4:2
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**הַפְּנִימִית עוֹדֶפֶת הַכֹּל טָהוֹר.** כָּל מַה שֶּׁהוּא חוּץ מִמֶּנָּה נֶחְשָׁב כְּגַבּוֹ שֶׁל כְּלִי וְאֵין כְּלִי חֶרֶס מִטַּמֵּא מִגַּבּוֹ. אֲבָל מַה שֶּׁבְּתוֹךְ הַפְּנִימִית טָמֵא:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
הפנימית עודפת הכל טהור (if the inner one is largest – in height) – everything that is outside from it is considered like the back of the utensil/vessel and an earthenware vessel cannot be made impure from its outside. But what is within on the inside is impure.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:4:3
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**הַחִיצוֹנָה עוֹדֶפֶת הַכֹּל טָמֵא.** דַּהֲוֵי חוּצָה לָהּ כְּגַבּוֹ שֶׁל כְּלִי וְלִפְנִים מִמֶּנָּה חֲשׁוּב תּוֹךְ. וְכֵן אִם אֶמְצָעִית גְּבוֹהָה, מִמֶּנָּה וְלַחוּץ חֲשׁוּב גַּב וְלִפְנִים חֲשׁוּב תּוֹךְ, שֶׁהַכְּלִי מִתְמַלֵּא עַד הַגְּבוֹהָה:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
החיצונה עודפת הכל אמא – for that which is outside it is like on the back of the utensil/vessel, and what is in front of it is considered the inside. And similarly, if the middle [rim] is highest, from it and outward is considered on top of and what is inward is considered inside, for the vessel is filled until is highest part.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:4:4
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**הָיוּ שָׁווֹת.** שֶׁאֵין אַחַת מִן הַשְּׂפָתוֹת עוֹדֶפֶת עַל חֲבֶרְתָּהּ:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
היו שוות – that none of the rims is larger than its neighbor.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:4:5
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**וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים הַכֹּל טָהוֹר.** הַשָּׂפָה שֶׁנָּפְלָה הַטֻּמְאָה בַאֲוִירָהּ בִּלְבַד הִיא טְמֵאָה, וְהַשְּׁאָר הַכֹּל טָהוֹר. וְכֵן הֲלָכָה:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
וחכמים אומרים הכל טהור – the rim that the defilement fell upon in its airspace alone is impure, but the remainder is all pure. And this is the Halakha.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:4:6
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**מִשֶּׁיִּצְרְפֵם בַּכִּבְשָׁן.** וְקֹדֶם צֵרוּף הֵן כְּלֵי אֲדָמָה וְאֵין מִטַּמְּאִין:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
משיצרפם בכבשן – but prior to smelting it is a vessel of earth and does not become defiled.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim 4:4:7
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**וְהוּא גְמָר מְלַאכְתָּן.** וְאַף עַל גַּב דִּלְאַחַר צֵרוּף הַכִּבְשָׁן צְרִיכִין תִּקּוּן לְמָרְחָן לְהַחְלִיקָן וּלְהַשְׁווֹת שְׂפָתָן, אַף עַל פִּי כֵן מִשֶּׁיְּצָרְפֵם בַּכִּבְשָׁן חֲשִׁיב נִגְמְרָה מְלַאכְתָּן וּמִטַּמְּאִין:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2022:**
והוא גמר מלאכה – but even though that after smelting the furnace, it requires repair for washing, to smooth them and to even out their borders, nevertheless, from when they are fired in the furnace, it is considered that their manufacture has been completed and they can become defiled.