טבעת אדם – as for example the ring of a finger. But the ring that they established to gird his loins and to and to tie it between his shoulders is ritually pure, and that is a ring of vessels. And the reason is because Scripture did not include anything other than ornaments of a man, but not the ornaments of an animal and vessels.

קורת החצים (beam of arrows) – there are those who interpret the dung heap that the arrows are placed upon. And there are those who interpret the target of the arrow.

ושל אסירין (and that of prisoners) – that they make like a kind of notch in the beam to bring into it the foot of a man [and they place a long piece of wood on top of it] and one is not able to go out/escape. And in the language of Scripture, they call it a סד/stocks (Job 13:27 – though the verse is slightly misquoted by Bartenura who writes: וישם בסד רגלי – while the Biblical text writes): "ותשם בסד רגלי"/”that You put my feet in the stocks [and watch all my ways].” But the beams of arrows and of prisoners that are mentioned here are of metal and not of wood.

קולר (prisoner’s chain/collar around the neck) – that they place on the neck of prisons. [And it closes]. The Aramaic translation of "ויתנהו בסוגר" (Ezekiel 19:9)/”With hooks he was put in a cage, [They carried him off to the king of Babylon and confined him in a fortress],” with the prisoner’s chain/collar around the neck, and because the prisoner’s collar was made that he would carry with him in every place that he goes, it is considered a usable vessel more than the beam of prisoners which does not move with it from its place. Therefore, the prisoner’s collar/chain is ritually impure.

שיש בה בית נעילה – they make for the chain a lock-piece [and place them on the foot of the horses, and close them with a key, and it is considered a vessel.

לכפיתה (for binding, color-band for animals) – chains that they bind with them the money and the cubs/young animals of small dogs. And they are made for the adornment/beauty and they are an ornament of animals and do not ritually defile.

סיטונות (wholesale provision dealers – of wheat) – large merchants who sell in big measure. And they have a chain that they affix at one end of the measure, a Seah or a dry measure of three Kabs/Tarkab, and its second end they place in a ring that is I the door or in the beam and close it with a key in order that the measure not be stolen.

ושל בעלי בתים טהורים – for it is merely made for adornment/beauty and it is an ornament for the vessel.

מפתח אחד – from one link. People don’t make use of a chain in one link, and it is not a vessel.

או שקשר חלזון בראשה – like the image of snail which is a fish in the see that from its blood they dye the Tekhelet [for the ritual fringes of the Tallit]– he ties it by its head which is made of iron, and it is like a vessel.

קנה מאזנים של סרוקות (the beam of the balance of wool combers/dealers in hatchelled wool) – those who hatchel wool or flax, and sell it a number of liters/measures of capacity, when they want to weigh, they have a long wooden rod and it is suspended at its head like a ring from above., and hooks of iron are suspended from below in a chain, made like hooks and their heads are bent from above. And there is for that rod another ring that goes over the face of the rod and one is not able to go out from it, and it is like a polished block/bar of iron or of thick and heavy copper suspended in that ring, and when he comes to weigh a bag of wool or of yarn, e inserts the hook in the sack and holds the ring that corresponds to it above and raises it in the air, and the ring that has the bar/polished block of iron is suspended removed from the ring that holds it, and it weighs down on the beam until it comes straight and does not bend to any side more, and because the distance of the ring that contains bar/polished block of iron, he knows the number/accounting of the weight, which has symbols on a rod, until here is one Liter, until there, ten, until there – one hundred, and this is called in the language of Scripture פלס , as it is written (Isaiah 40:12): “And weighed the mountains with a scale [and the hills with a balance],” [and] (Proverbs 16:11): “Honest scales and weights are the LORD’s; [All the weights in the bag are His work].”

ושל בעלי בתים – they don’t regularly place in it hooks which are the hooks that they insert in a sake to raise it, but without hooks, they tie it with a rope and suspend it on a pole. We have the reading אונקליות but we don’t have the reading אונקיות.

אונקלי של כתפין (hooks of porters/carriers) – a long piece of wood like a kind of balancing pole/staff that the porter places on his shoulder and suspends on it two bags – one in front of him and another behind him with two iron hooks that are inserted in the balancing pole/staff on its two sides.

של רוכלין – those who sell spices and women’s perfumes.

טמאה – because it has a receptacle.

שלפניו טמאה – because he uses it.

ושלאחריו טהורה – that he doesn’t use it other than for protection, so that the burden will not fall from behind him, but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

דרגש (footstool in front of a high bed/state bed with its footstool) – a small bed of leather and they suspend straps at the rim of the leather around and there are iron hooks along the length of the bed and when they wish to stretch it they intertwine/fasten by means of a loop with those hooks.

נקליטין (poles of the bedstead, connected by a cross-pole over which a net is spread to form a slanting cover/curtain frame) – two pillars/posts that they place in the middle of the walls of the bed, one from its head and the other from its feet, and it is forked/split at their head, and they place a beam from this side to that and spread over it a sheet. But sometimes the pillars are not forked/split, but it is like two hooks that they place at the top of the poles of the bedstead/curtain frame, and these are hooks.

שידה – a small chest.

אקון (reed basket) – a chest that hunters make to hunt fish with.

כל המחובר לטמא – a hook that is attached to a vessel that is susceptible to receive ritual impurity is impure.

לטהור – as for example, a wooden candelabrum which is ritually pure is pure.

אחת אחת בפני עצמה – every hook that is separated from tis vessel.

טהורה – because it doesn’t have a name of its own.

טני (metal cover of a box) – it is a metal vessel that holds three Kab. And it is from the language of "ושמת בטנא" (Deuteronomy 26:2): “put it in a basket.” And owners of homes use it when they place there the rubbish of fragments/shards from metal vessels.

רבן גמליאל מטמא – for he holds that thee cover is considered a vessel since it has a receptacle.

וחכמים מטהרין – for they hold that a cover is not considered a vessel. But the Halakha is according to the Sages.

ושל רופאים טמא – according to everyone. This is because doctors place drugs in them.

מגדל – a storehouse of wood. In the foreign language ARMARIO. And in Arabic ALMENSAR.

ושל רופאים טמאה – because they place upon it a compress/rag and suspends on it the scissors.

יתוכין – tongs that they take the vessel with them when he cast/poured on it the silver to empty it into another vessel.

הפריכין (the bars of a grate through which poking is done) – in the Tosefta (see Tosefta Kelim Bava Metzia 2:10) it explains what are the bars of a grate through which the poking is done? That are established as iron tools for crowding olives into the vat. But my teachers did not explain it to me.

עקרב בית הבד(the iron-shod part of the pressbeam) – curved iron that is similar to a scorpion, that is affixed in the beam of the olive press when they press the olives.

אונקלי שבכתלים – iron hooks that are affixed in the walls to suspend vessels on them.

טהורים – for their use is only with the ground.

מסמר הגרע (the nail of the bloodletter) – the cutting tool/surgeon’s knife of an artisan who lets blood flow (i.e., old-time, low-class doctors), and he is called a blood letter because he diminishes the blood. But there are those who interpret the nail of blacksmiths for they had a nail affixed on the block, when they remove a piece of iron from the fire and they want to cut from it, they place it on a nail and beat it with a mallet and it is reduced.

אבן השעות (sundial) – a rock/stone that has upon it lines and inscriptions upon them of the names of the hours, and nails are inserted I it and through them, they determine the hours.

מסמר הגרדים (weaver’s nail/pin) – a long nail that the weaver brings into a thin reed and attaches yarn on the reed.

ארון של גרוסות (ark of the grist dealer) – those who make pounded beans in their millstones, they have a kind of wooden ark/chest.

רבי צדוק מטמא – that ark/chest, for it has the law of a vessel upon it.

וחכמים מטהרין – for a wooden vessel is made for pleasure and is not made to be carried. But Rabbi Tzadok holds, sometimes, hey carry it to repair it. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Tzadok.

היתה עגלה – that the ark was placed upon it, of metal.

טמאה – for it is made for usage.

שהתקינו – that its head is curved or that he sharpened it in order that he would open and close it.

העשוי לשמירה – as a sign to see if a person enters there or not, for if they don’t find it like he placed it, it is known that a person came there.

עד שיצרפנו (until he smelted/forged it anew) – in fire for this purpose/need. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.

מסמר השלחני – a nail that is establish on a pillar that is in front of the moneychanger to set up the shutters of the store, and when they remove the shutters, the nail remains there. But the Rabbis declare it ritually pure because its use is with the ground. And the Halakha is according to the Sages (note: this is already taught in Tractate Eduyot, Chapter 3, Mishnah 8).

ותלוי המגרדות (hanger of a strigil) – in bathhouses, they hang metal strigils and those who enter there each take a strigil and rubs with it his feet.

וגולמי כלי מתכות (unfinished metal vessels) – vessels that one needs to rub, to comb and to beat with a mallet, or if he is missing a rim of a vessel or a handle, they are not ritually impure according to the words of the Sages until their work is completed.

וטבלא שנחלקה לשנים – an earthenware tray that has a vertical rims/edges (by which a flat utensil is made into a vessel-like receptacle) and is made into two equal pieces. For not one of them is bigger than its neighbor. In this, Rabban Gamaliel and the Sages dispute. But the Halakha is according to the Sages.

דינר שנפסל – that the kingdom defiled it or the country, or that it was lacking [its appropriate weight].

והתקינו – that he pierced it in order that he could suspend it on the neck or his son or his daughter.

סלע – four Denarim.

והתקינה להיות שוקל בה – silver or gold. For these are a thing that is joined/affixed as for example meat and/or wine, for behold it is taught in a Baraita in the Chapter “He who sells a boat” (Tractate Bava Batra, Chapter 5) [folio 89b]: “They don’t make weights of metal to weigh on them a thing that is attached/affixed.”

עד שני דינרים – which is one Shekel. And it is one-half of a Selah.

פחות מכאן יקוץ – so that people will not be deceived with it that they will think that it is a Shekel. And similarly, if it is more than a Shekel, it should also be cut up so that they don’t error with it and purchase it for a Selah.

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.