כלי זכוכית – This Mishnah is taught above in Chapter 2 [Mishnah 1] and Chapter 15 [Mishnah 1] and since it was necessary to teach the law of these vessels of glass, he returns and teaches them once again here.

טבלא – table.

אסקוטלא (a salver or a waiter of nearly square form) – in the foreign language, we call a dish SHEKOTILA. But here we are speaking of a flat dish, which does not have a receptacle, but rather that from underneath it, a small receptacle is connected to it that serves when we turn it upside down on its face, similar to what our silver and glass cups have.

יש להן לבזבז (they have a vertical rim/edge – by which a flat vessel is made into a vessel—like receptacle) – a rim all around, the vertical rim makes it a vessel that has a receptacle.

שולי קערה ושולי אסקוטלא (bottoms of a flat dish) – when the place of their usage is broken, there remains a small receptacle and he turns it over and uses it, but nevertheless they are ritually pure, for the rims are not considered a vessel, because the place of the break that injuries the hands when they hold it.

קרטסן או שפן (if he scraped them or filed them) – he repaired them and made them smooth until their were appropriate to be used in the same receptacle, they are impure, for they are no longer the shards of a vessel.

בשופין (with files) – a vessel that that refines and iron artisans remove the rust/mold and smooth/level the vessels. The Aramaic translation of הצריפים/those who smelt, refine is שופינא/file. LIMA in the foreign language.

אספקלריא (window-glass) – a glass mirror that a woman sees her face in. And in the foreign language ISPAKLAV. But even if it has a receptacle, it is ritually pure, for it is not used to receive anything, but only to look at the shape/form of the face.

תמחוי – like a kind of large glass tray.

תרוד (spoon – pointed on top and curved at the end) – a glass spoon.

ואם לאו – if when he places it on the table or on a flat surface it rolls to here and there and what is in it spills, because it is sharp underneath and does not stand.

ר' עקיבא מטמא – for since it has a receptacle. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Akiba.

כוס – of glass.

שנפגם רובו טהור (that the majority of which is cracked/broken off) – that it is considered a broken vessel/fragment of a vessel.

מפגם בו שלש ברובו – that the three notches/cracks stand in the majority of the cup but not in its minority.

אם מפזר הוא את רוב המים טהור (if it scatters/disperses the majority of the water – it is pure) – but with a minority, it is ritually impure. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon.

בבעץ – with tin.

רבי יוסי אומר בבעץ טמא – for everything follows after what restores it/preserves it, and it is considered like a metal vessel. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yossi.

צלוחית – that is similar to our glass flash that has a long neck.

שניטל פיה – whose neck was removed.

ובגדולה – that is not able to be carried with one hand, but only with two hands is called a large [flask], but that which can be carried with one hand is called a small [flask].

של פלייטון (an ointment or oil prepared from leaves of spikenard) – of balsam oil.

מפני שהיא סורחת את היד (because it lacerates/catches the hand – when you attempt to get the aromatic unguent out) – one who goes to place his hand inside to take from the ointment of spikenard to smell it, his hand is lacerated and scratched and torn, [The word] סורחת like [the word] סורכת with [the letter] "כ" is the language of an adhesion/סרכא.

לגינין (bottle, flask/flagon – smaller than a pitcher but larger than a cup) – like large pitchers.

מתקנין לכבשים (repairs them for use for pickled/preserved things) – when they pickle in them a vegetable in salt and in vinegar and leave the there to be established.

אפרכס (the hopper, grain-receiver on top of the millstone) – a vessel that is made for the millstone, wide from the top and narrow from the bottom at its rims, and they place in it a lot of wheat at one time and they (i.e., the wheat kernels) go down gradually into the millstone and they are ground there. And an example of this we found at the beginning of [Tractate] Hagigah [3a]: “Make your ear like the hopper to receive the teaching,” for one brings in a lot and it produces a little.

אשריך כלים – Tractate Kelim.

שנכנסת בטומאה ויצאת בטהרה – it begins with the primary sources of uncleanness and the glass hopper/grain-receive on top of the receiver concludes in purity.