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.

A lantern that has a receptacle for oil is tamei, while if it does not have [such a receptacle] it is tahor. A potter’s form which he begins with is tahor, while [the one] which he finishes with is tamei. A funnel of householders is tahor, while that of peddlers is tamei since it is used for measurement; [these are] the words of R’ Yehudah ben Beseira. R’ Akiva says: Since he tilts it on its side and allows the buyer to smell [its contents].

[The] cover of wine jugs and of oil jugs and the cover of Neyarian barrels are tahor, but if it was prepared for [some] use, they are tamei. [The] cover of a stewpot — when it has a hole in it or it has a protrusion — it is tahor; if it does not have a hole or it has no protrusion, it is tamei, since she strains the vegetables into it. R’ Eliezer bar Tzadok says: Since she overturns the mass of cooked vegetables upon it.

A gistera that was found in a kiln before its manufacture was complete is tahor; after its manufacture was complete, it is tamei. A titros: R’ Eliezer bar Tzadok rules [it] tahor; R’ Yose rules [it] tamei, since it lets out [liquid] drop by drop.

These are tamei among the earthenware utensils: A tray that has a rim, an enclosed fire- pan, and a tray that is filled with bowls. If one of [the compartments] became tamei via a sheretz, the others do not become tamei. If it has a rim that extends [above the compartents and] one of [the compartments] became tamei, the others become tamei. The same [applies to] an earthenware spice container and doubled inkwells. A wooden spice container whose [compartment] became tamei via a liquid, its other [compartment] does not become tamei. R’ Yochanan ben Nuri says: We divide its thickness — that which serves the tamei [compartment] is tamei [and] that which serves the tahor [compartment] is tahor. If it has a rim that extends [above the compartments and] one of [the compartments] became tamei, the other becomes tamei.

A torch is tamei, and a lamp holder contracts tumah via airspace. The comb-[like projections] of a tzartzur: R’ Eliezer rules [it] tahor, but the Sages rule [it] tamei.