Mishnayos Keilim Perek 2 Mishnah 4

פנס – a kind of earthenware lantern that is perforated in its walls/sides that from them the light goes out, and we place the candle inside it so that wind does not extinguish it.

שאין בו – a receptacle for oil. Even though it has a receptacle for a candle.

טהור – for a receptacle for a lantern has no inside other than the candle/lantern that is laid upon it.

מגופת היוצרים (potter’s mould) – it is similar to stones of earthenware that the potters make the vessels upon them.

את שהוא פוחת בה (begins to shape the clay) – meaning to say, the mould that the potter casts upon it the plaster and engraves upon it with his hands the form of the vessel.

טהורה – because it lacks a rim/border around it and there is no inside here.

ושהוא גומר בה – and the stopper that he places upon the vessel after its form has been completed has an “inside,” and therefore, it is impure. But my Rabbis/teachers explained, that that there is a vessel/utensil for potters that is called a מגופה/stopper or bung and some of them have narrow openings and some have wide openings; that which he opens it by, meaning to say, that he will eventually widen its opening, is pure, that its work has not yet been completed, and it is like the lump/shapeless earthenware vessel. But when he completes it, that he places as such at the narrow opening, it is impure. But our Mishnah is according to Rabbi Meir who stated (Tractate Betza 32a and Tosefta Kelim Bava Kamma, Chapter 3, Halakha 13) : When do earthenware vessels become susceptible to receiving impurity? From the time when their manufacture is complete.” But not according to the Rabbis who state (Tractate Kelim, Chapter 4, Mishnah 4): “from when they are fired in the furnace.” And the first explanation appears to me to be essential.

משפך – a vessel/utensil that we place on the mouth of a jug or on the mouth of a leather bottle/skin when we want to fill it with wine or oil.

ושל רוכלין – which is small and made to bring in oil to small flasks. And it holds a LOG or two LOGS and the peddler places his finger from underneath it corresponding to the hole/perforation and measures with it the oil, and removes his finger and the oil descends to the vessels of the purchaser. And it is made for reception and is susceptible to receive impurity.

רבי עקיבא אומר מפני שמטהו על צדו – that is to say even if it is not of a measure, the funnel of a peddler always is defiled because he turns it on its side to receive in it a bit in order that the purchase can smell from it m and it is found that it is made to [be susceptible to] receive defilement. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Akiva.