מחט או טבעת – an impure/unclean [needle or ring] (from corpse uncleanness).

שנמצאו בנחושתו של תנור (that were found in the copper rim of the oven) – on the floor of the ground that the oven is attached to.

נראין – in the oven.

אבל לא יוצאין – in the airspace of the oven. As for example, that they are absorbed in the thickness of the floor of the ground and appear in the airspace of the oven but do not project/protrude into it.

אם אופה הוא את הבצק – if at the time that he fastens the bread into it, the dough comes in contact with the needle or the ring, it is considered like the airspace of the oven and it defiles it. But if not, it is a pure, for the All-Merciful wrote "תוכו" (Leviticus 11:33 – “And if any of those fall into/תוכו an earthen vessel, everything inside it shall be unclean and – the vessel – itself you shall break), and this is not “inside it”/תוכו. As for example, that they were absorbed there in the floor prior to attaching the oven there, for if they brought them in through the mouth of the oven, when they entered into its airspace, the oven was defiled.

בבצק הבינוני – not that its mixture is soft, that it descended below to the cracks. But not that its mixture was hard, that it does not affixed/attached.

בטפילת התנור (in the plaster of the oven) – it is the plaster of clay/mud that they place around the oven to thicken it so that it can hold/contain its heat.

מוקף צמיד פתיל – and it is placed in the tent of the corpse.

בטמא – if the oven is unclean/impure.

טמאים – the needle and the ring that are found in the plaster of the oven.

ובטהור טהורים – for since the oven is surrounded by an airtight lid and is saved/protected, these also are protected with it, for in regard to the plaster, they are neutralized.

נמצאו במגופת החבית (if they are found in the bung/stopper of the jar) – in the plaster that they regularly make for it as a cover over the mouth of the jar.

מצדיה – of the jar.

טמאים – for the sides of the jar do not need the plaster.

מכנגד פיה – if the needle and the ring are drawn opposite its mouth.

טהורין – provided/as long as that they will be within the plaster of the bung/stopper and not be brought into the airspace of the jar. But even though they appear from its inside, since they don’t enter into its airspace, they are clean/pure.

שוקעים בתוכה ותחתיהן כקליפת השום (if they sink into it and under them is [plaster] about as much as a garlic peel) – if there was between the needle and/or the ring and between the airspace of the jar a thin divider like the garlic peel, that it is found that they protrude into the bung/stopper, but it does not enter into the airspace of the jar at all, the are pure, for they are nullified concerning the bung/stopper. But if they enter within the jar, they are impure/unclean, for the airtight lid does not save/protect in the tent of a corpse other than in an earthenware vessel for food and liquids, things that have no purification in a Mikveh/ritual bath. But on metal vessels, such as a needle and/or a ring, they have purification in a Mikveh, the airtight lid does not protect them, therefore if they enter into the airspace of the jar, the are not nullified regarding the bung/stopper and are not protected/saved by the airtight lid. Such appears in my eyes the explanation of this Mishnah. But my Teachers/Rabbis did not explain it thusly. But their explanation I did not know how to justify/maintain it and therefore I did not write it.

ומניקת בתוכה (and a syphon/tube is in it) – like a kind of hollow reed made from metal, that they place one head in the perforation of the jar and he sucks/drains with his mouth from the other head, and all of the liquids that are in the jar go out through this syphon/tube.

החבית והמשקין טהורים והמניקת טמאה – the earthenware jar, but the syphon/tube that is within it is of metal. Therefore, the jar and the liquids that have no purification if the Mikveh, but if it purifies them and they belong to a commoner/uneducated person [who is not careful in the observance of laws of ritual purity], a Haver/member of a group dedicated to the punctilious observance of the commandments should not come to use them, for they are separated from their contact and if it is not, it would be so that all of its food is impure, the Rabbis did not make a decree concerning this, and they are protected/saved by an airtight lid, but a metal syphon/tube that has purification in a Mikveh/ritual bath, if one would purify it, a Haver/member of a group dedicated to the punctilious observance of the commandments would come to use it and he would borrow it from a common/uneducated person [who is not careful in the observance of the laws of ritual purity and immerse it [in a Mikveh] and when its sun had set (i.e., a sunset had passed for this object), he would use it, thinking that there is nothing in it other than because of contact with something impure, but he did not know that it had been in the tent of a corpse and it requires sprinkling [of a mixture of the ashes of the red heifer with waters of purification on the third and seventh days to purify it from the impurity imparted by a corpse, but even though it was in an earthenware vessel that is covered with an airtight lid, the airtight lid of vessels of a commoner/uneducated person [who is not careful in the observance of the laws of ritual purity] save/protect it from the defilement with a Haver, for all of the vessels of a commoner/uneducated person are under the presumption of defilement concerning a Haver, and an impure vessel does not protect/save with an airtight lid, for an airtight lid only protects/saves for a pure earthenware vessel alone. But whereas the Sages came to make a decree that the no earthenware vessel belonging to a common/uneducated person [who is not careful in the observance of the laws of ritual purity] does not protect [even] with an airtight lid, the people of the lands would not accept it from them. Because they would hold that they are expert and preserve their vessels/utensils in purity. Therefore regarding earthenware vessels and food and liquids which do not attain purity in a ritual bath/Mikveh, when they were within an airtight lid of a utensil belonging to a common/uneducated person, they say to them that they are pure and they would use them for they hold their vessels/utensils to be under the presumption of ritual purity, they should not be concerned lest the Haver should borrow from them, for they are, concerning him, in the presumption of being ritually impure and they don’t have purity ever, but a vessel that requires only rinsing in order to be restored to Levitical cleanness where there is a concern that perhaps the Haver will borrow it from them and he will immerse them [in a ritual bath] and use them without sprinkling [of a mixture of the ashes of the red heifer with waters of purification] on the third and seventh days [to purify it from the impurity imparted by a corpse], they made the law equivalent for all and stated that a vessel requiring only rinsing in order to be restored to Levitical cleanness is protected/saved by an airtight lid.

ובית הלל אומרים אף מניקת טהורה – prior to their having heard the reasoning of the School of Shammai they did not know for what reason foods and liquids that are within an airtight lid are pure and metal vessels are impure, but after they heard their reasoning as we have explained, they (i.e., the School of Hillel) retracted to teach according to the words of the School of Shammai.

למטה מנחושתו של תנור – the block pavement that they place the oven on, for the oven is made like a kind of large pot that lacks rims, and they prepare for it a block pavement on the ground and place it there, and that block pavement is the ground of the oven.

חי נפל – [it fell while alive] but the oven was not defiled, for if it had fallen when dead, the oven would have been defiled in its airspace when it fell through the mouth of the oven. For this we don’t leave in doubt lest it was there prior that they placed the oven there, because sometimes, the unclean reptile is found moist and it is recognized that it just died and the oven has many days that they placed it there, but now it is impossible to say that the unclean reptile preceded the oven there, for if so, from the heat of the fire, it (i.e., the unclean reptile) would have been burned up and would have come ashes, but we leave in doubt that perhaps it fell while living, for it is the manner of unclean reptiles to make pits in the ground to be hidden/preserved there therefore it is found below the copper bottom or rim of the stove.

שם היו עד שלא בא התנור – prior to their placing it (i.e., the oven) there and it did not see the airspace of the oven.

באפר מקלה (calcined ashes/wood ashes) – in the ashes that are made on account of the burning of the fire. But this is above in the cavity of the oven. For because we find dust that we call ashes, and here it is the ashes of burning that is referred to, because of this, it (i.e., the Mishnah) teaches the wood ashes/calcined ashes which is the language of קלוי באש/roasted in fire (see Leviticus 2:14: “[If you bring a grain offering of first fruits to the LORD, you shall bring new ears] parched with fire, [grits of the fresh grain, as your grain offering of first fruits].”

ונפל לאויר התנור טמא – for impure liquids defile a vessel. But even though the liquids are absorbed within the sponge, they are like they are discharged/escaped, because the sponge is made to bring in and to release/expunge [the water] through it.

וכן חתיכה של לפת ושל גמי – they are like a sponge. Because through the reed grass we examine through it the wine and it too is made to bring in and to release/expunge like a sponge. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon [who permits the turnip and the reed grass].

חרסים שנשתמש בהן משקין טמאים (potsherds that had been used with unclean liquids) – as for example, a large vessel for the collection of urine (for manufacturing purposes) of a man who has gonorrhea or a woman with a flux that was broken and its potsherds absorbed their urine. But we are speaking about, for example that they rinsed them in water three times in order that there should not remain in them unclean liquid. For if he did not rinse them, the oven is defiled on account of the liquids that are attached to their walls as if they are visible to the eye.

שסוף משקה לצאת – that is to say, it is the manner of liquid to exit through heating of the potsherds, and since that these potsherds were in the oven at the time of heating, the liquids left them and defiled the oven from its airspace.

גפת – the refuse of olives (i.e., peat) after they removed their oils.

חדשה – within twelve months.

ישנה – after twelve months, that all of the liquid that was in them left on their own.

והלכו עליהם טמאים – ritually impure people [walked on them].

טהורים – they were not defiled through their treading/walking [on them], since they were not ever called/referred to as defiled.

כוש (reed used as a spindle) – a spindle that a woman spins on it and there is a curved/winding iron tool at its head and its name is צנורא /hook and sometimes the iron tool is sunk within the wood and all it is covered by the wood.

מלמד (ox-goad/handle – in which the iron point was driven in so that nothing could be seen of it) – a long staff and at its head is something similar to a thin nail/pin, and they direct with it the cow to its furrow/ridge, therefore, it is called מלמד בקר/it trains the cattle. But the nail/pin that is at its head is called a goad/the iron point on the staff, like (Ecclesiastes 12:11): “The sayings of the wise are like goads.”

ולבנה שבלעה את הטבעת (the clay brick which swallowed up the ring) – that the ring was kneaded in the plaster of the brick and smelted with it in the furnace/kiln.

נכנסו לאוהל המת – when they are absorbed and hidden within the reed or within the ox-goad or within the brick.

נטמאו – for the tent of a corpse does not protect/save them and similarly from the hand of an earthenware vessel but rather a vessel that has an inside. But this is not similar other than a bone like the size of a barley corn that is wrapped in fibrous substance (i.e., bast of a palm tree).

הסיטן הזב (if the man with gonorrhea shook/shifted – to move it from its place) – even though he did not come in contact with them but that he overbalanced/outweighed them.

נטמאו – for the person with gonorrhea defiles through shaking an object so as to move it from place to place. Even that which is surrounded by an airtight lid defiles through shaking, all the more so this.

נגע בהן ככר של תרומה – when they are absorbed.

טהור – the loaf [is pure]. But even though it is of heave-offering and something of second-degree [of ritual uncleanness] defiles it, and even the iron that is absorbed/swallowed which is the primary source of ritual impurity we don’t say that we make the wood that covers it first [degree of ritual uncleanness] or second [degree of ritual uncleanness] and the loaf will be third [degree of ritual uncleanness] and be defiled, but it defiles the oven, and even though they are absorbed/swallowed, because the oven is defiled through its airspace and even if the defiling object did not come in contact with it, and the defilement that is absorbed from its defilement is as we explained in our chapter above (see Tractate Kelim, Chapter 8, Mishnah 5).

סרידה (stuffed matting/ slightly hollow perforated tile used for stoppers of stoves, bags/colander) – like a kind of small kneading trough that the baker uses, and it is stretched and is not susceptible to receive defilement.

שהיא נתונה על פי התנור – and it is crushed in plaster in order to surround it with an airtight lid and the oven will not become defiled in the tent of a corpse.

נסדק מן תנור לסרידה (was cracked from the oven to the colander) – that is, the shaping was cracked.

מלוא פי מרדע שלא נכנס (its measure is the tip of an ox-goad that cannot enter) – the ox-goad is that trains the cattle, and there is in its circumference a handbreadth, and its thickness is three handbreadths, for all that is of one-handbreadth in its thickness, there is in its circumference three handbreadths, and the measure of the crack when the smearing is cracked, according to the Rabbis, its measure is the tip of an ox-goad is equivalent, and even though the incision is not large when the tip of an ox enters, for since the crack is equivalent to the tip of an ox-goad, there isn’t here an airtight lid, but according to Rabbi Yehuda, there always is an airtight lid until the crack will be large enough that the tip of an ox-goad can enter.

נסדקה סרידה עצמה – according to the Rabbis, an enclosure/compartment once the pile of plaster is cracked , but according to Rabbi Yehuda, an enclosure/compartment that when the pile of plaster is cracked, from when the small kneading trough is itself cracked. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

שנקב מעינו – the eye of the oven, this is the perforation/incision that one makes in it in order that the smoke can go out, and they seal the eye with plaster and close it up and make a perforation afterwards in the place of the plastering.

נכנס ויוצא דולק – that the perforation is wide and the spindle staff enters and goes out in a wide space.

ניקב מצדו – of the wood.

וכן היה אומר במגופת החבית – and so would Rabbi Shimon say with all of these, that their law is that from the middle one enters, but from the side one does not enter. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon.

מלא מיצה שניה של שיפון (is the thickness of the second joint of a stem of oats) – this thickness of the second knot of the reed of oats, that the second is thinner than the first but more thick than the third, that the reed is thick from the bottom and becomes thinner as one ascends. שיפון is VIINEH in the foreign tongue.

לשאר משקין – as for example, oil, honey and milk.

אפילו כל שהן טמאים – even the slightest perforation does not protect with an airtight lid and they are defiled.

שלא נעשו בידי אדם – that they were not perforated with intention, but that it happened on its own.

ניקבו העשוי לאוכלים שיעורו בזיתים – now we are speaking of when the utensil itself was hollowed out/broken through and perforated. And all of these measurements that are above is when the closure/cover was hollowed out in its opening.

שיעורן בזיתים – if it was hollowed out when they remove the olive, it requires plastering/leveling, but less than this, it does not require plastering. And in the Gemara in Tractate Shabbat [96a] it proves that when a large vessel that was perforated when they remove the pomegranate and a small vessel that was hallowed out in its majority, the plastering and closing it up have no effect, and furthermore, it does not protect with an airtight lid since it it no longer has the status of a vessel. But if they plastered it, it becomes like foodstuffs that were kneaded with plaster that the plaster does not protect/save them.

שיעורן במשקין – when one brings in liquids.

העשוי לכך ולכך – for liquids and for foods.

מטילין אותו לחומרו – but if he perforated at the place where the liquids enter, he does not save/protect it with an airtight lid until it is plastered over.