Comentário sobre Kelim 10:3

המחלחלת (the stopper of a jar/keg which can be moved round, without, however, falling out of itself) – that moves about in different directions and shakes, the language of (Esther 4:4): “the queen was greatly agitated.”

A stopper of a jar that is loose but does not fall out: Rabbi Judah says: it protects. But the sages say: it does not protect. According to Rabbi Judah, although the stopper is loose in its place, it still protects the jar from becoming impure. The sages disagree.

רבי יהודה אומר מצלת – that he considers it an airtight lid, since it does not go out.

If its finger-hold was sunk within the jar and a sheretz was in it, the jar becomes unclean. If the sheretz was in the jar, any food in it, become unclean. The finger-hold is the depression within the stopper used to get a grip on the stopper and pull it out. If there was a sheretz in this finger-hold and it was sunk within the jar, then the jar is unclean. The finger-hold does not count as sealing the jar, even though the stopper does. Similarly, if the sheretz was in the jar and the finger-hold was sunk into the jar and there was food in the finger-hold, the food is impure. Put simply, the finger-hold does not protect from impurity.

וחכמים אומרים אינה מצלת – for since it moves in different directions/shakes , it is not an airtight lid. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.

היה בית אצבע (if its finger hold/stall) – of the stopper was sunk and entered into the jug, it is considered that the unclean insect that is within it is as if it is within the jug. And the finger-hold is the place from the stopper that a person places his finger into it.

אוכלים שבתוכה – that are within the finger-hold/stall that sunk and entered into the jar.

טמאים – for the stopper of the jar is like the jar itself.