Comentário sobre Kelim 2:8

הלפיד – it is similar to a dish of earthenware sharpened at the bottom and they insert pointed projections/prongs at the top of a pole and it enlightens from afar, but because it is sharpened/pointed and is not able to stand on its own, you might think I would say that it is not defiled. It comes to tell us that since it is a prepared and designated place for sitting to place at the top of the pole, this would be defiled.

A torch is susceptible to impurity. A torch made of earthenware has a receptacle and is therefore susceptible to impurity.

ובית שקעו של נר (reservoir of the lamp) – an earthenware vessel made to be the torch is sitting and sunk within it.

And the reservoir of a lamp contracts impurity through its air- space. The reservoir of an earthenware lamp is considered a "receptacle" and therefore if something defiling comes within its airspace, it is defiled.

מטמא באויר – that it is considered like the inside to defile by airspace, even though the entire torch is not sunk within it other than only a small amount of it.

The comb of a tzartzur: Rabbi Eliezer says: it is not susceptible to impurity, But the sages say that it is susceptible. A tzartzur is some sort of bottle whose mouth is covered with netting made of earthenware. Around the mouth are teeth that look like those of a comb. Rabbi Eliezer holds that if impurity goes into the airspace of the comb, the comb is not defiled. But the sages hold that this area is considered a receptacle, and the comb can therefore be defiled.

מסרק של צרצור (comb of the water cooler – if an unclean object touches the comb of a cooler) – an earthenware vessel that they make at its mouth a net-work/mat like a kind of netting/lattice-work and one who empties from it pours the water from many places. But most of the vessels that they drink water from in the Islamic countries are made like this, and surrounding that net-work/mat protrudes teeth like the teeth of a comb, that they make them for beauty. And if an unclean creature/reptile was suspended in the airspace of those teeth, Rabbi Yossi and the Sages dispute if it is considered the inside of an earthenware vessel or not. But the Halakha is according to the Sages that they consider it as an inside [of the vessel] and that it defiles.