Quotation for Shabbat 245:13
איתיביה מחט שניטל חררה או עוקצה טהורה
and part thereof is uncovered, it may be handled;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the straw or the coals themselves need not be handled. ');"><sup>12</sup></span>
Mishnah Kelim
A needle whose eye or point is missing is clean. If he adapted it to be a stretching-pin it is susceptible to impurity. A pack-needle whose eye was missing is still susceptible to impurity since one writes with it. If its point was missing it is clean. A stretching-pin is in either case susceptible to impurity. A needle that has become rusty: If this hinders it from sewing it is clean, But if not it remains susceptible to impurity. A hook that was straightened out is clean. If it is bent back it resumes its susceptibility to impurity.
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