שואל. ובלבד שלא יאמר הלוני – for it implies a loan for a long time and we hold that an undefined loan is for thirty days; therefore the lender comes to write on his writing tablet/merchant’s account book that I have loaned such-and-such to so-and-so in order that he would not forget it.

מניח טליתו אצלו – if he (i.e., the lender) doesn’t believe him (i.e., the borrower) and he takes it and dedicates it as Temple property on the Sabbath for [loan[ obligations that have a fixed time [for return] one can dedicate [them] on the Sabbath (though we learn in Tractate Arakhin, Chapter 7, Mishnah 5, that one does not dedicate to the Temple something that is not his).

פרפרותיו – kinds of dainties/sweets.

אבל לא מן הכתב – if he wrote it from the Eve of the Sabbath (i.e., Friday): “so-and-so are guests” so that he would not forget, he should not read from the same document on the Sabbath, as a preventive measure lest he erase it; alternatively, lest he read private (not Hebrew) documents for it is prohibited to read anything on Shabbat other than the Written Torah and the Oral Torah, but other things or works of scholars that are not from the words of the prophets or their commentaries are forbidden (see Tractate Shabbat 149a).

עם בניו ועם בני ביתו – for they are dependent upon his table for there is no legal objection, but with others one cannot [do so], for members of the group that are strict with each other for they do not pardon and do not renounce each other, violate this because of the measurement and the weight and the number because they loan and collect and the Rabbis decreed on this lest they write it down.

ובלבד שלא יתכוין וכו' – Our Mishnah is deficient, and should be read as follows: a person may conduct a lottery with his children and with the members of his household [dependent] upon his table and even a large portion corresponding to a small portion and specifically with his children and the members of his household, but not with others, provided that he does not intend to make a large portion correspond with a small portion, which is forbidden even on weekdays because dice-playing is theft and collateral security with the condition of forfeiture beyond the amount to be secured does not purchase/gives no title and this is a collateral security with the condition of forfeiture beyond the amount to be secured that is dependent upon the lottery if the lottery will fall to him on the large portion, he will be worthy of it, and therefore, he has left himself in doubt even for a lottery for a small portion through doubt , for had he known from the outset that this would be the case, he would not have accepted it.

חלשים – lotteries such as (Isaiah 14:12): “A vanquisher of nations.”

על הקדשים ביום טוב – that were slaughtered on Yom Tov/the Festival Day to distribute/divide them among the Kohanim.

אבל לא על המנות – on yesterday’s Holy Things.

לא ישכור אדם פועלים – as it is written (Isaiah 58:13): “Nor look to your affairs, nor strike bargains.”

ולא יאמר אדם לחבירו וכו' – it was taken for an implied opinion/deduction that he should not say to his fellow: “hire for us workers,” but he says to him: “that it appears that you will stand with me this eening, that is to say, now it appears that if you come to me when it gets dark, and even though that both of them know that on the condition of hiring him for his work he warns him, since he does not spell out his salary explicitly, it is permitted, for we hold that loud recitation is prohibited, but thinking/fantasizing is permitted (on the Sabbath).

אין מחשיכין על התחם – to draw himself close on the Sabbath to the place within which is it is permitted to move (i.e., the Sabbath limits) until the end of the limit and to make preparations to be ready for work on the exit of the Sabbath there that he will be close to the place of the workers or to the orchard to bring fruit, for everything that is prohibited to do on the Sabbath, it is prohibited to make preparations to be ready for work on the exit of the Sabbath but he can make preparations to be close to go out and guard his fruits for this is something that is permitted to do on the Sabbath to guard/watch his fruits.

ומביא פירות בידו – since the essence of this thinking was not for this.

כלל אמר אבא שאול – He disputes the First Teacher [of our Mishnah] that prohibited all preparations to be ready for work on the exit of the Sabbath, but he doesn’t make a distinction between preparations to be ready for work on the exit of the Sabbath of a commandment and something that is optional, and he comes and states that preparations to be ready for work on the exit of the Sabbath is permitted for just as it is permitted to tell his fellow on the Sabbath that he should be designated to go after dark to bring a coffin and shrouds for the dead person, so too, it is permitted to be make preparations to be ready for work on the exit of the Sabbath in order that he will be designated after dark to bring the coffin and shrouds – and at the end of the Mishnah as it is taught: we can make preparations to be ready for work on the exit of the Sabbath to watch over the affairs of a bride and on the affairs of the dead. This is the opinion of Abba Shaul and the Halakha is according to him.

לפקח על עסי כלה – to look out for and research the needs of he bride.

חלילין – a hollowed musical instrument whose sound gives rise to crying.

לא יספוד בהן ישראל – it is fine because he matter is proved that they were brought for Jews.

אלא א"כ באו ממקום קרוב – other than if it is known to us clearly that they came from a place within the Sabbath limit, and that they were not brought from outside the Sabbath limit.

ארון – for himself that he will bury in it an idolater or to sell it.

סכין – [anoint] with oil.

ומדיחין – with water, and they stop up his urinary organs. They close up his upper urinary organs and the bottom ones with a cloth or because of a matter in order that wind should not enter into him and become blown up/swelled.

ובלבד שלא יזיזו בו אבר – that he should not carry and raise neither his hand nor his foot nor the eye lashes, for it is prohibited to carry the dead person or a limb from his limbs even though it is permitted to touch him and similarly, all things that are forbidden for use or handling on the Sabbath, it is permitted to touch it but it is prohibited to carry it and an egg that was laid on the Sabbath or on a Festival day it is prohibited even to touch it for since the well (which was in the shape of a ball), touching it is like carrying it.

ושומטים את הכר מתחתו – and it is found lying on the sound but we don’t carry it to place it on the sand – for the Teacher of the first part [of the Mishnah] taught: as long as he does not move even a limb.

בשביל שימתין – so that it does not decay as a result of the heat of the sheets and pillows.

קושרין את הלחי – of he dead person for his mouth would continue to open.

ולא שיעלה – to close what was open, which is moving a limb, but rather, it should not continue to open.

סומכים אותה בספסל – for it has the status of a utensil.

ולא שתעלה – for it would be like “building.”

אין מעצמין – [they do not close] his eyes on the Sabbath, even after the soul has left, for it is like moving a limb.

שופך דמים – for in a small manner, he brings his death closer.