מסכת כלים פרק ו משנה ד | |
שתי אבנים |
Two stones |
שעשאם כירה |
that were made into a kirah (by placing them next to each other and cementing them with clay) |
ונטמאו |
and that became tamei, |
סמך לזו אבן אחת מכאן |
and then one placed one stone next to one from here |
ולזו אבן אחת מכאן |
and one stone next to one from here (the four stones are arranged in a row, with the tamei pair in the middle and one new stone on either side of that pair), |
חציה של זו טמא |
half of this one is tamei |
וחציה טהורה |
and half (the half that would support a pot with the newly placed stone) is tahor, |
וחציה של זו טמא |
and half of this one is tamei |
וחציה טהורה |
and half it tahor (in other words, the halves of the tamei stones that now serve to support pots with the newly placed stones are tahor); |
ניטלו טהורות |
If the tahor ones are [subsequently] removed, |
חזרו אלו לטמאתן |
they return to their status of tumah (i.e. the two originally tamei stones become completely tamei again. |
פרק ז משנה א |
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הקלתות |
The stove bases (earthenware slabs that formed the bottom of kirahs) |
של בעלי בתים |
of householders |
שנפחתה |
that was missing a part (creating an indentation in the floor of the oven), |
פחות משלשה טפחים |
if [the depression is] less than three handbreadths [deep], |
טמאה |
it [the stove] is tamei (i.e. is susceptible to tumah), |
שהוא מסיק מלמטן |
as one heats it from below |
וקדירה בשלה מלמעלן |
and the pot cooks above (i.e. even though the fire is now lower down, the heat still reaches to the pot above), |
יתר מכאן טהורה |
more than that is tahor (as the greater distance of the flame from the pot keeps it from cooking properly, it is no longer susceptible to tumah); |
נתן אבן או צרור |
if one place a stone or a pebble (in such a depression of greater than three handbreadths, thus raiding the flame) |
טהורה |
it is tahor (as these are not physically attached to the stove or its base, it is still considered 'broken'), |
מרחה בטיט |
if he covered them with clay (if one attached the stone or pebble filling the depression with clay) |
מקבלת טמאה |
it [the stove] is susceptible to tumah |
מכאן ולהבא |
from that point on. |
זו היתה תשובת רבי יהודה |
This was the response of Rabbi Yehuda |
בתנור |
about a tanur |
שנתנו על פי הבור |
that was placed over the mouth of a pit |
או על פי הדות |
or the mouth of a cistern (I.e. his position in 5:6 that an tanur placed over a cistern or pit in which there is a fire is tamei only if the fire heats the tanur.) |
Notes
הקלתות - There are those who say that a קלת was a type of earthenware vessel sometimes used as a stove; wider on top than at its bottom, it required a special lid atop which a pot would be place to cook. The lid had a hole in its middle and the mishna, according to this interpretation, is discussing when the opening of the lid was widened, or a hole developed in the side of the lower vessel; if larger than three handbreadths this would allow too much heat to escape for it to be an effective cooking vessel. Yet another interpretation is that הקלתות were small table-top stoves, which had a very thick bottom to protect the table from its heat. According this, the mishnah addresses a case where part of the base is missing from the inside of the vessel, leading to a flame that was not as near to the cooking surface at its top.
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