Keilim 26:5 - 26:6

לשטיח (for a rug) – to stretch/spread on the ground and to sit upon it.

סקורטיא (leather coat, leather apron, table cover) – leather that the tanners wear at the time of their work.

קטבליא (hide spread over the bed-frame – see Tractate Kelim, Chapter 16, Mishnah 4) – leather that they spread over the bed and lie upon it.

עור החמר (hide of an ass driver) – this is our reading But we don’t have the reading of עור החמור/the hide of the ass. That is to say, the leather that the ass-driver places on his clothes when he loads up his ass.

עור הכתן (leather of the flax beater) – the leather that the flax artisans place before them in order that the hatchelled flax doesn’t stick to their clothing.

עור הכתף (the leather of the porter/carrier) – the porter places on his shoulder in order that the load/burden that is on his shoulder not damage him.

עור הרופא – the doctor of the societies places before him leather so that his clothing will not be soiled with the blood of the wounds.

עור העריסה (hide of the crib) – that the place on the crib of a small baby.

עור הלב של קטן – it was customary to gird leather on the loins of a young child opposite his heart , so that the cat will not strike him on his heart and he will die.

עור הכר והכסת – of a bed.

עור הסרוק (leather of the dealer in hatchelled wool) – the leather that the artisans of combers gird on their loins.

עור הסורק – artisans who comb flax.

ר' אליעזר אומר מדרס – and all the more so, someone who came in contact with someone defiled by a corpse. For it taught in the Mishnah in chapter בא סימן/The Sign comes [Tractate] Niddah, (Chapter 6), Folio 49a (Mishnah 3): “Whatever is susceptible to Midras/treading uncleanness is susceptible to corpse uncleanness.”

וחכמים אומרים טמא מת – but not corpse uncleanness, or they are not made to be sat upon. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.

עב כסות (thick clothing) – felt-cloaks (i.e., thick, fulled or felted stuff made of wool and hair) that one made from them clothing. This is the thick clothing. And similarly, the thick purple, to cloth that is colored purple. This is what my teachers/Rabbis explained. But I heard, “thick clothing” hide that they cover up the clothing. Thick purple – is the hide that they cover up with purple.

תכריך כסות (wrapper for garments) – hide that they wrap up the clothing.

תכריך ארגמן (wrapper for purple) – hide that they wrap up the purple

חפוי – cover. The Aramaic translation of cover is חופאה/cover.

טהור – and such is taught in a Baraita, it is possible that I increase covering for vessels for defilement, as the inference teaches us (Leviticus 11:32): “any such article that can be put to use [shall be dipped in water,, and it shall remain unclean until evening],” excluding the covering of vessels.

למשקלות – but it is taught in the Mishnah above at the conclusion of the Chapter [16], “Every wooden vessel that has been divided into two is clean” (Mishnah 8): “This is the general rule: [That which is made for a case is unclean.] And that which is made for a cover is clean.” But the cover of weights is different, because it is made for receiving, and the weights itself are not a vessel. But the Halakah is according to the first Tanna/teacher.