Des tasses à mesurer pour le vin ou l'huile, une louche à fourche, une passoire à moutarde et un filtre à vin ont tous [une distinction, en ce qui concerne le statut de pureté, entre leurs] intérieurs et extérieurs, selon le rabbin Meir. Rabbi Yehuda dit: ils n'ont pas [une telle distinction]. Rabbi Shimon dit: ils ont [une telle distinction], car s'ils sont rendus impurs de l'extérieur, ce qui est à l'intérieur d'eux est pur; et il faut immerger [le récipient dans son intégralité, afin de le purifier].
Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim
זומא ליסארא (soup-ladle, with a spoon on one side and a fork on the other) – a vessel that on one head is a spoon and the other head is a fork; with the spoon one raises the soup from the bowl, and with the fork one lifts with it the meat.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Kelim
Measures of wine or oil, a fork-ladle, a mustard-strainer and a wine-filter have an outer and inner side, the words of Rabbi Meir. A "fork-ladle" is an instrument with a ladle on one end and a fork on the other end. According to Rabbi Meir, all of these vessels have inner and outer sides, so if an impure liquid touches them on the outer side, the inner side remains pure.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim
ר' יהודה אומר אין להם – an outside and inside. The reasoning of Rabbi Yehuda, because that all of these vessels have on their outsides engraved a receptacle similar to what they do for a silver vessel, and sometimes, that they bend it on its opening and use the hollowed out area on the backside.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Kelim
Rabbi Judah says: they do not have. Rabbi Judah disagrees and holds that they do not have inner and outer sides. No matter where the liquid touches, the entire vessel is impure.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim
ר' שמעון אומר יש להם – regarding the matter of what is inside the vessel, they have the law of outside and inside, for if its outsides were defiled, what was inside the vessel was not defiled But reading the matter of the vessel itself, there is no separation of the law of its outside from the law of its inside, for if the outsides had been defiled, one must immerse all of it [In a Mikveh] as if the inside was defiled. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yehuda.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Kelim
Rabbi Shimon says: they do have, for if their outer parts contracted uncleanness that which is inside remains clean, and immersion is required. Rabbi Shimon seems to bridge between these two opinions. These vessels do, in some sense, have inner and outer sides, and if an impure liquid comes into contact with the outer side, the content on the inside remains clean. However, the entire vessel requires immersion in order to purify it, even the inside of the vessel. In other words, the paradox is the inside of the vessel requires immersion, but the contents are clean.
