במה טומנין – A person who comes to remove a pot from on to of a double stove on the Eve of the Sabbath and to cover it (i.e., put dishes in the chafing stove to keep them warm) with another thing, and the Sages said that we don’t cover them with something that adds vapor but rather with a thing that preserves the vapor. What is the thing that adds and is prohibited?

לא בגפת – the refuse of olives and sesame when gathered together very hot.

לחים – they have a lot of vapor, more than when dry.

זגין – grape peels, the pomace/shells of grapes, and seeds of grapes.

מוכין – every soft thing is called מוכין/soft, spongy substance – like wool of a vine, detached pieces of soft wool of an animal and the scrapings-off of outworn garments.

בזמן שהן לחין – all of these refer to straw and pomace of grapes and soft-spongy substance and grasses, and moist things that they mentioned [but] moist on account of themselves, not moist on account of liquids that fell upon them after they had dried and moist soft-spongy substances on account of themselves which we find like wool that is close to the tail or wool that is between the thigh of cattle.

נסורת – the fine saw-dust/chips that the carpenters saw/plane from the tree when they saw it with a saw.

נעורת – very thin, when they thoroughly beat the flax (Talmud Shabbat 49a), and they empty it out.

ר"י אוסר בדקה – thin hatchelled flax, but with fine chips/saw-dust he admits that they permit it whether they are thin or thick, but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda. For what they (i.e., the Rabbis) prohibited to cover up while it was still day is a something that increases/adds vapor as a decree lest they cover it with hot ashes and he will come to stir the coals when it gets dark, and they forbid to cover it up on the Sabbath with something that does not increase vapor, and even though they do not nullify the decree lest they find his pot that has cooled off and heat it up with fire on the Sabbath. But at twilight [on Friday], it is permissible to cover it up with something that does not increase vapor as we said at the end of the chapter [two of Tractate Shabbat] “במה מדליקין ] – “With what may we kindle the Sabbath lights” for we are not able to make the decree lest he find that his pot has cooled off and he will heat it, for mere pots at twilight are hot. And Maimonides explained that mere pots at twilight are hot, as he explains, that the opinion does not suffer it because of the confusion of textual versions, for the textual versions are opposite each other, for he found in the Gemara that was before him in the chapter במה מדליקין/With what may we kindle the Sabbath candles – that he had the reading – for what reason did they say that we don’t cover it up with a thing that does not increase vapor once it becomes dark, as a decree lest he cover it with hot ashes, and for what reasons did they say that we don’t cover it with something that increases vapor while it is still daylight (on Friday) , decreed lest it becomes hot, and the readings are not such, but rather, for what reason did they say that we don’t cover them with a thing that does not increase vapor once it becomes dark as a decree lest it become hot and we don’t cover it with a thing that adds vapor while it is still daylight, as a decree lest he cover it with hot ashes.

שלחין – hides, it is the Aramaic translation of “he stripped/flayed [skin] and stretched forth.

ומטלטלין אותן – whether he covered them or whether he didn’t cover them for it appears like he mixed them – that is to say, to rely upon them.

ואין מטלטלין אותן – for they are Muktzeh/forbidden for use and/or handling on the Sabbath to spin or to weave, and even though he covered them for the time, he did not make them ownerless completely, and when he couldn’t designate them out for covering, but designated them for covering from carrying them.

כיצד יעשה – this one who covered them, how shall he take his pot – since it is prohibited to carry them and it is all covered in them.

נוטל – the cover of the pot that has the status of a utensil upon it, and even though that they are upon it, and we don’t care that it was not make a base for them, for it was not made other than to cover the pot.

רבי אלעזר אומר קופה מטה על צדה ונוטל – when he comes to take it, he tilts the basket on its side lest he take the pot and the wool-sheerings that from one side and from the other into the hole that is in the pot and if it is required to go back and to cover it, he won’t be able to carry the sheerings from here and there and to make a hole and return them into it.

וחכ"א נוטל – [The Sages state that he takes] the pot and if the wool- sheerings fell out, and the hole did not become ruined, he returns pot to its place, and they did not prohibit him to take the pot, ab initio, a decreed lest the hole become ruined. But the Sages admit that if the hole did become ruined, he should not return the objects, and the Halakha is according to the Sages.

לא יכסנו משתחשך – for it is forbidden to cover it on the Sabbath, whether it is something that adds vapor, whether it is something that does not add vapor in the manner of covering it.

ונותן – on the Sabbath, under the pillow that he places under his head, and even though it is filled with spongy-wool substance or feathers, this is not the manner of covering with it.

כסת – larger than a pillow.