מסכת כלים פרק ה משנה ג | |
עטרת כירה |
The cap of a kirah (literally the "crown", this was a round lid or rim placed on top this stove, thoguh some say it was a low wall that fit around the walls of the stove; either way it was made to help keep in the heat and/or flames, but was not attached to the stove) |
טהורה |
is tahor (as it was not attached and not commonly used). |
טירת התנור |
The compartment of the tanur (according to some this was a box-like exterior compartment, open on top, in which bread would be put after it came out of the oven; others say it was a this compartment encircled the oven, and still others says it was on top), |
בזמן שהיא גבוהה |
when it is as high |
ארבעה טפחים |
as four handbreadths, |
מיטמא במגע ובאויר |
it contracts tumah through contact and airspace, |
פחותה מכאן |
less than that (it cannot store the baked bread and so) |
טהורה |
it is tahor, |
ואם חברה לו |
and if it (that short buut) is attached to it [the oven] |
אפלו על שלש אבנים |
even on three stones (the compartment would sit on top of three stones; some say there was an actual physical, though weak, connection between the compartment and oven, others that it was just adjacent to the oven) |
טמאה |
it is tamei. |
בית הפך |
A flask holder |
ובית התבלין |
and a spice holder |
ובית והנר |
and a lamp holder (all of which were attached to the outside of the oven after it's manufacture) |
שבכירה |
that are in a kirah |
מיטמאין במגע |
impart (rabbinical) tumah by contact |
ואינן מיטמאין באויר |
and do not impart tumah by airspace, |
דברי רבי מאיר |
these are the words of Rabbi Meir, |
ורבי ישמעאל מטהר |
and Rabbi Yishmael rules it is tahor. |
פרק ה משנה ד |
|
תנור |
A tanur |
שהסק מאחוריו |
that was heated from its exterior |
או שהסק שלא לדעתו |
or was heated without [the owner's] intent |
או שהסק בבית האמן |
or was heated in the craftsman's shop (before its manufacture was completed; some say this is before it was fixed to the ground, others that its walls were not yet at their final height; in any case it was not heated for the purpose of completing its manufacture) |
טמא |
is tamei. |
מעשה |
There was an incident |
שנפלה דליקה |
that a fire broke out |
בתנורי כפר סגנה |
in the ovens of Kfar Signa (heating them unintentionally, from their exteriors, and in the craftsman's shop) |
ובא מעשה ליבנה |
and the case came to Yavneh |
וטמאן רבן גמליאל |
and Rabban Gamliel ruled them tamei. |