Between the Ulam and the Altar is holier than it, in that [Kohanim] with blemishes or untrimmed hair may not enter there. The Heichal is holier than it, in that one whose hands and feet are unwashed may not enter there. The Holy of Holies is holier than they, in that no one may enter there except the Kohen Gadol on Yom Kippur at the time of the service. R’ Yose said: With regard to five matters [the area] between the Ulam and the Altar is on a par with the Heichal: That those with blemishes, or untrimmed hair, or those who have drunk wine, or with unwashed hands and feet, may not enter there, and they must remove themselves from [the area] between the Ulam and the Altar when the incense is burned.

Wooden utensils, leather utensils, bone utensils, and glass utensils: Their flatwares are tahor but their hollowares are tamei; [if] they break, they become tahor; [if] one remade [the broken utensils] into [new] utensils, they are susceptible to tumah from then on. Earthenware utensils and nesser utensils are identical in their [laws of] tumah: They contract tumah and transmit tumah via airspace; they contract tumah via [a receptacle in] their exterior; they do not contract tumah via their exterior; their breakage is their taharah.

The smallest of the earthenware utensils and their bottoms or walls [which can] rest without support, their measure [for susceptibility to tumah] is from enough [oil] to anoint an infant and up to a log. [Utensils containing] from a log up to a se’ah [are measured] with a quarter-[log]. [Utensils containing] from a se’ah up to two se’ah [are measured] with a half-log. [Utensils containing] from two se’ah up to three [se’ah] and up to five se’ah [are measured] with a log; [these are] the words of R’ Yishmael. R’ Akiva says: I do not assign them a measurement; rather, small earthenware utensils and their bottoms or walls [which can] rest without support, their measure [for contraction of tumah] is enough [oil] to anoint an infant, and [this applies] up [to utensils the size of] small pots. [Utensils] from [the size of] small pots [up] to Lodian barrels [are measured] with a quarter-[log]. [Utensils] from [the size of] Lodian [barrels up] to Lechemian [barrels are measured] with a half-log. [Utensils] from [the size of] Lechemian [barrels up] to large casks [are measured] with a log. R’ Yochanan ben Zakkai says: Large casks — their measure is two lugin. Galilean flasks and small barrels — the measure [for] their bottoms is the smallest amount, and they have no walls.

These are tahor among the earthenware utensils: A tray that has no rim, an open-sided firepan, a toaster’s pan, pipes — even though [they are] bent [and] even though [they are] capable of containing, a kavkav made for a bread basket, a tefi which was adapted for [covering] grapes, a barrel for swimmers, a barrel-[shaped handle] set into [the wall] near the bottom of a machatz, a bed, a chair, a bench, a table, a ship, and a candelabra, [all] made of earthenware, are tahor. This is the general rule: Any of the earthenware utensils which have no interior, have no [decree of tumah upon their] exterior.