המפרק את המטה להטבילה – even though it had become defiled while it was whole/complete, sometimes, on occasion when it is large and is unable to enter the Mikveh [whole], and one needs to take it apart.

והנוגע בחבלים – this is our reading. Meaning to say, whether one takes it (i.e., the bed) apart or one touches the ropes, one is ritually pure. But we are speaking about a bed that was defiled through contact with a corpse or though a person with gonorrhea lying on it, and as for example, that is no on the bed a long board and two legs, even though, it is necessary to immerse it [in a Mikveh], in order that it not return to its defilement when it is connected. But the person who touches the ropes is ritually pure, for since he took it (i.e., the bed) apart, the ropes are no longer connected.

החבל מאימתי חיבור – at the outset when a person makes a partition by means of net-work/makes a zig-zag completely and girds it with three [rows of] meshes with it, and the rope still remains very long. If the bed became defiled, the rope is defiled. And a person who touches the rope, is impure. For it is all connected/attached, for ultimately, one is making a partition by means of net-work.

מן הקשר ולפנים – if he tied another rope to this rope that he is making a lattice-work with, the other rope is not attached from the knot and outward.

נימי הקשר (fringes of a knot) – when they tie in a knot two ropes with one another, they leave a bit from the heads of the ropes from this side and from that side they exit beyond the knot, and they are called the “fringes of a knot.”

הנוגע בצורכו – for since there is a need to tie them in a knot, that if the knot at the actual top of the of the rope was an extra knot, it is found that these fringes establish the knot an they are like the knot itself.

רבי יהודה אומר שלש אצבעות – is an attachment/connection, and he requires the knot, but not more.

החבל היוצא מן המטה – what remains from it [hangs over the bed] after he completed the plaiting.

עד חמשה טפחים טהור – for it is not appropriate for the needs of the bed, and it is not considered a handle.

מחמשה ועד עשרה טמא – for it is appropriate to knot with it the Passover sacrifices. For they would regularly tie up the Passover sacrifices with a rope that is on the leg of the bed in order that it be ready for them. And it was appropriate also to let it down [over the side of the bed] , that is to say, to lower it from the attic to the roof. Alternatively, to lower it to the ritual bath to immerse it when it became defiled.

מעשרה ולחוץ טהור – for what there is on a rope more than ten [handbreadths] he does not use at all for the purposes of the bed.

המיזרן (girth, hanging from the bed – a strap of cloth which is wound over the bed to keep the covering in position) – a kind of girdle or woven belt that they tie around the bed in order to attach its joints/links. But sometimes it is too large and it drags and extends beyond the bed.

היוצא מן המטה – and the bed is impure from treading.

כל שהוא – even if it extends outward a few cubits beyond the bed, everything is impure.

ר' יוסי אומר עד עשרה טפחים – it is impure through the defilement of the bed. From ten [handbreadths] and beyond it is pure. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yossi.

שיירי מיזרן – a girth that was worn out or torn, whatever that will remain from it, and it will be ritually impure.

שבעה טפחים – for less than this, it is not appropriate for anything and it is not considered a vessel.

חבק (a band with which the saddle or housing of an animal is fastened around its belly) – there are those who explain/interpret , a thick and hard piece of cloth that they place on the donkey when it comes from the road and it is sweating, , in order that it not catch cold when they remove the saddle from it. And there are those who explain, that they place it on the burden of the donkey in order that it not be lost if rains fell upon it.

נישא הזב על המטה ועל המיזרן (if the person with gonorrhea was carried on the bed and on the girth) – not exactly carried on the bed girth, but rather that the person with gonorrhea was carried on the bed that the girth is tied around it and extends from it.

מטמא שנים ופוסל אחד דברי ר' מאיר – Rabbi Meir according to his reason that he stated above (see previous Mishnah, Tractate Kelim, Chapter 19, Mishnah 3), that even if the bed birth extends from the bed a little bit, and even more, it is attached/connected to the bed, and the two are made impure and renders [the heave-offering] unit, like the bed itself. For all that the person with gonorrhea is carried upon and acts of lying and sitting are performed by the person with gonorrhea, which is a primary category of ritual impurity, and the person who touches is first degree [level of ritual impurity], and something that is first-degree [level of ritual impurity] makes something else second [degree level of ritual impurity] , and something that is second degree [level of ritual impurity] makes something third [degree level of ritual impurity] to invalidate the heave-offering/priest’s due alone, but not to make it impure. And this is where he defiles two degrees, which are first [degree of ritual impurity] and second [degree of ritual impurity] and he invalidates one and it is third [degree level of impurity] and it is invalid for heave offering alone. And the bed girth all the while that it was not removed from the bed is considered like a primary source of ritual impurity, and it defiles two and invalidates one, but after he removes it, it is nothing other than a derivative of the defilement which defiles one and invalidates one, according to the law of a person who touches that which the person with gonorrhea lies upon.

ר' יוסי אומר = Rabbi Yossi according to his reasoning, who stated above (in Tractate Kelim, Chapter 19, Mishnah 3) ten handbreadths and not further. Therefore, that which is within ten [handbreadths] is considered a connection/attachment to lying [by a person with gonorrhea], and it defiles two and invalidates one all the while that he did not remove it. But what is beyond ten [handbreadths] is not considered an attachment to the lying [by a person with gonorrhea], and its law is as it was explained, that it defiles one and invalidates one.

נישא על המזרן מעשרה ולפנים טמאה – this is our reading (i.e., טמאה). But we don’t have the reading of טמא/impure. And this is an explanation: if the person with gonorrhea was carried on the bed girth that extends from the bed, if he was carried from ten [handbreadths] and within to the side of the bed, the bed is impure through treading/Midras, for since all ten [handbreadths] are considered an attachment to the bed, but from ten [handbreadths] and beyond it is not an attachment/connection to the bed, and the bed is pure and its not defiled [with the defilement] of the bed girth. Such it appears in my eyes an explanation/commentary on this Mishnah. And the reading of my Teachers/Rabbis who have the [textual] reading "טמא וטהור" /impure and pure and their explanation, but it was not acceptable to me. And similarly the words of Maimonides who wrote in his commentary to this Mishnah did not enter my eyes are all. And I investigated afterwards in his work (i.e., the Mishneh Torah) in the Laws of Kelim/Vessels, Chapter 21 [Halakha 9] – it appears to me that there he retracted and explained this Mishnah as I explained it here.

כולה טמאה מדרס – ;and all the time that he did not remove the bed girth from the bed, it is like the bed itself, as I have explained.

והמזרן מגע מדרס – and it defiles one and invalids one, like the law of all who touch/come in contact with a primary category of ritual impurity.

ונגע בהן המת – when they are wrapped together.

טמאים טומאת שבעה – in this, Rabbi Yossi does not dispute. For especially in the defilement of treading/Midras it is stated, up until ten handbreadths it is impure; from ten [handbreadths] and beyond it is ritually pure. But concerning the rest of the defilements, even one hundred cubits all together is an attachment, such as the bed girth which is wrapped on a bed and the bed enters into the tent of a corpse or that it touched a reptile, and similarly if a piece from the bed girth enters into the tent of a corpse or touched a reptile, if the bed is defiled, the bed girth is defiled; if the bed girth is defiled, the bed is defiled, and even if the bed birth extends from the bed for one-hundred cubits.

פירשו טמאים טומאת שבעה – and they are not like vessels that were broken, since each one of them is a vessel in its own right. Even though that regarding the matter of acquiring defilement they are considered like one vessel, and when defilement touched one of them, the other was defiled [as well].

שניטלו שתי ארוכות – its [two long pieces], and they did not beak. And they are appropriate to be restored to their places, therefore, the bed was not purified from its defilement with the taking of the long pieces.

נשתברו חדשות טמאה – for since the old ones and the sockets/perforations were not changed, and when he removed each part of the bedstead and all of its bedsteads are whole. But when the old ones were broken, they are pure, because the old ones were on the bed when it became defiled, and when they were broken, the bed is a broken vessel, for it is not appropriate without the long pieces.

תיבה שנפחתה מלמעלן )a box which was damaged from above) – its covering.

טמאה אמא מת – because its rim/bottom still exists, it is worthy for use. And specifically, defilement through contact with the dead, but not defilement by treading, for it is not appropriate for sitting.

נפחתה מלמטן – at its rims/bottoms, its receptacle was annulled and it is completely pure.

מגורות שלה (its drawers [in a chest]) – the treasures/storehouse within, that is the rooms that are in it that were not damaged with it, are impure.

התורמל (bag – the inside pocket of which has become defective) -a large leather pocket that the shepherd puts his belongings into, and within the bag, there are small pockets like the drawers in a box.

חמת (bottle – of a skin of a he-goat/wether) – leather skin or bottle.

שהביצים שלה מקבלות עמה when they flay/shed the skin of the male rams and wethers/he-goats, there remains the leather that is in place of the genitals/testicles, like a small pocket, but if they were damaged, they are ritually pure, for their receptacle has been nullified.

שפתחה מצדה (that was damaged from its side) – When it was damaged from above, it was not impure by treading, for if he sat upon it and comes to use it, they say to him: “Stand and let us do our work.” But when it was damaged from the side, it is possible to use it even though he sits upon it.

בזמן שאינה גבוהה עשרה טפחים – when it is ten [handbreadths] high, it is not appropriate for sitting all that much.

או שאין לה לזבז (or when it does not have a vertical rim/edge – buy which a flat vessel is made into a vessel-like receptacle) – when it has a vertical rim which damages the person who sits upon it.

נפתחה מלמטן – at its rim/bottom. It is not appropriate for use, but is appropriate for sitting.

מפני שבטל העקר (because the primary purpose was annulled) – the primary purpose of the box is that its made to support its rim what one places within it, and through that, it is called a vessel. But because its rim was damaged and it was nullified, also its walls from above are nullified and it no longer receives any form of defilement. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.

משפלת (a wicker basket carried on a pole over the shoulder) – a large basket that they carry the manure and the trash.

שנפחתה מלקבל רמונים – for this is its measure to become purified, when an incision is made when removing pomegranates.

ר' מאיר מטמא – even though it is more pure than all of the other defilement things, it is impure from treading, which is appropriate for sitting.

וחכמים מטהרין – And the Halakha is according to the Sages [for when the primary purpose is annulled, the secondary purpose is annulled].