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כני כלים

The bases of utensils,

and their rims (which project outward from the vessel),

and their ears (loop-shaped handles),

and the (stick-like) handles, of utensils that can hold items (i.e. vessels that are not flat but which have receptacle),

that (tamei) liquids fell on them,

one dries them and they are tahor (as these components are treated even more leniently than their exteriors);

and all other utensils

that do not have exteriors or interiors

that (tamei) liquids fell on part of them (included the parts listed at the beginning of this mishnah),

they are entirely tamei.

A utensil whose exterior was made tamei by liquids,

its exterior is tamei

its interior,

and its rim,

and its ears

and its handles

are tahor.

If its interior became tamei,

its entirety is tamei.

כל הכלים

All utensils

have an exterior and an interior,

and have a fingerhold. (If a utensil has an indentation in its exterior for one's fingers, that spot has its own status separate from the rest of the exterior, and if tamei liquid touches it it is tamei and the rest of the exterior is tahor, and if the liquid touched the rest of the exterior, it remains tahor.)

Rabbi Tarfon says

(this rule was said with regard) to a large wooden trough (as this utensil, due to its size, was always lifted by its fingerhold).

Rabbi Akiva says

(this rule was said with regard) to cups.

Rabbi Meir says

(this rule was said with regard) to tamei hands (that is, this distinction was applied only to liquids that came into contact with a person's hands that are rabbinically considered secondarily tamei, or a sheini l'tumah) and tahor hands (this refers to a rabbinical decree that confers tumah to one's hands if they touch a tamei object, such as the exterior or fingerhold of a utensil).

Rabbi Yosi said

they did not say (this rule)

but with regard to tahor hands alone (but if one touches the exterior with liquids that had contacted tamei hands, the fingerhold would be tamei as well).