Un elmetto è suscettibile all'impurità, ma le guance non sono sensibili. Ma se hanno un ricettacolo per l'acqua sono suscettibili all'impurità. Tutte le armi da guerra sono suscettibili all'impurità: un giavellotto, una lancia, stivali di metallo e una corazza sono sensibili all'impurità. Tutti gli ornamenti femminili sono sensibili all'impurità: una "città dell'oro" [una specie di diadema], una collana, orecchini, anelli per le dita, un anello che abbia un sigillo o che non abbia un sigillo e anelli al naso. Una collana che ha perle di metallo su un filo di lino o lana e il filo si è rotto, le perle sono ancora sensibili all'impurità, poiché ognuna è una nave in sé. Un filo di metallo e le perle erano di pietre preziose o perle o vetro, e le perle erano rotte mentre il filo rimaneva da solo, è ancora suscettibile all'impurità. I resti di una collana [sono sensibili] fintanto che c'è abbastanza per il collo di una bambina. Il rabbino Eliezer dice: anche se è rimasto solo un anello è suscettibile, perché lo appendono al collo.
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קסדא – the bronze hat that the men of war place on their heads.
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Introduction
Today's mishnah deals with the purity of weapons and jewelry. It is interesting to note that the Mishnah often juxtaposes these topics, as if to create an analogy weapons are adornments to men, as jewelry is an adornment to women.
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ולחיים – tin foil or other plating material of bronze that they place on their cheeks.
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A helmet is susceptible to impurity but the cheek-pieces are clean, But if they have a receptacle for water they are susceptible to impurity. The helmet has its own name and is therefore susceptible to impurity, but the cheek-pieces do not have their own name, and therefore they are not susceptible unless they also have a receptacle for water.
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ואם יש בהן בית קיבול מים – that they drink water in them during war.
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All weapons of war are susceptible to impurity: a javelin, a spear-head, metal boots, and a breastplate are susceptible to impurity. Weapons of war are all susceptible to impurity because they are made of metal.
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כידון (light spear/javelin) – a small spear that is in the hands of the officers and the kings.
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All women's ornaments are susceptible to impurity: a golden city (a, a necklace, ear-rings, finger-rings, a ring whether it has a seal or does not have a seal, and nose-rings. Similarly, women's jewelry is made of metal and therefore it too is susceptible to impurity. The ring need not have a receptacle for a seal for it to be susceptible. Note that "a golden city" this refers to a "Yerushalayim shel Zahav," or any other city.
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ניקון (iron point of a javelin) – like a canon. It is the language of (II Samuel 21:16): “[And Ishbi-benob tried to kill David – He was a descendant of the Rapha (a race of ghosts)]; his bronze spear [weighed three hundred shekels and he wore new armor].” And it is the bronze that is within the spear.
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If a necklace has metal beads on a thread of flax or wool and the thread broke, the beads are still susceptible to impurity, since each one is a vessel in itself. A whole the necklace is susceptible, as we learned in section three. If the thread breaks, the beads are still susceptible because each is considered its own vessel.
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מגפיים (metal leggings, greaves) – bronze upper part of the leg that men of war carry [into battle].
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If the thread was of metal and the beads were of precious stones or pearls or glass, and the beads were broken while the thread alone remained, it is still susceptible to impurity. If the thread is metal, it is susceptible even if the beads that served as its adornments broke and fell off.
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תכשיטי נשים – even though they are not made for work but rather for beauty/ornamentation, we derive from Scripture as it is written (Numbers 31:23): “and anything that cannot withstand fire you must pass through water.”
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The remnant of a necklace [is susceptible] as long as there is enough for the neck of a little girl. Rabbi Eliezer says: even if only one ring remained it is unclean, since it also is hung around the neck. If a chain necklace breaks, it is still susceptible as long as enough remains to serve as a necklace for a young girl. If it is smaller than that, it is not susceptible. Rabbi Eliezer says that as long as one ring in the chain remains it is still usable because a person might hang that ring on another chain around her neck. Therefore it is still susceptible.
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עיר של זהב – like a diadem/tiara that women place on their heads in the shape of Jerusalem.
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קטליות (necklace – a chain the links of which are of metal and strung on a linen or woolen thread) – golden threads that they (i.e., the women) place around the neck. But because the woman chokes herself with them in order that she should appear with much flesh, therefore, we call them קטליות (that act as something that kills).
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ונזמים – there are those of them that are nose rings and there are those of them that are earrings.
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בחוט של פשתן – that the links of which are perforated and they filled from them the thread.
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החוליות טמאות – each one of them is considered on its own as a working vessel.
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של אבנים – that there were jewels/pearls and stones perforated and they filed from them the thread.
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טמא – the thread, since it is of metal.
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כמלוא צואר קטנה – encompass the neck of a small girl.
