Gemara: He lifted the Tzipsa (mattress).

Translation: 'Tzipsa' means mattress.

Gemara: See what there is!

Explanation: This was a miracle.

Gemara: He would take from her hair.

Explanation: He would gather the straw from her hairs.

Gemara: I would make for you Yerushalayim of gold.

Explanation: It is a gold ornament on which there is a picture of Yerushalayim. And so he made for her [later], like it says in Shabbos (59a).

Gemara: Eliyahu came, and appeared to them like a man [begging for straw].

Explanation: This was to console them, and show them that there are people poorer than them.

Gemara: He is not like you.

Explanation: He is unlike you; [he is not] not from an important family, like you are.

Gemara: To where do you go?

Explanation: She did not have proper garments [to greet him].

Gemara: "A Tzadik knows the Nefesh of his animal."

Explanation: He knows that I was pained for him.

Gemara: Mine and yours is hers.

Explanation: My Torah and your Torah is due to her, for she counseled me to go to learn from a Rebbi.

Gemara: The ram of a ship.

Explanation: On every ship they made a wooden image of a ram for Nichush (divining) and a Siman that the ship will go quickly, like a ram. They would fill it with gold coins.

Gemara: And from Guza (a chest).

Explanation: This is a chest made to hide in it money of the boat, like we say (Rosh Hashanah 6a) 'Bei Gaza of Hash-m.' It is an expression of a storehouse.

Explanation: Once, R. Akiva and his Talmidim needed money. They went to a distinguished woman. She said to him "I lend to you. You are the borrower, and Hash-m and the sea are the guarantors on the matter";

He fixed a time for her a time of payment. When the time came, she went to the sea shore and said "Master of the world! It is revealed and known to You that R. Akiva is sick, and he could not pay his debt. See, You are a guarantor for this!"

Immediately, the Kaiser's daughter went insane. She took a chest of gems and gold Dinarim and threw it to the sea, and the sea took it to where the distinguished woman was sitting at the sea shore.

Immediately, she took the chest and went away. Afterwards, R. Akiva recovered, and came to her with the coins in his hand to pay her;

She said to him 'I went to the Guarantor, and He paid the entire debt. Here is what He gave to me more [than the debt].' From the money that she returned to him, R. Akiva became rich.

Explanation: R. Akiva used to defeat Turnusropus with verses in front of Kaiser and verbally vex him.

Once, Turnusropus came home bitter and angry. His wife asked him why he is upset, and he said "due to R. Akiva, who verbally vexes me every day."

She said to him "their G-d hates Zenus. Permit me to make him stumble in an Aveirah!" He permitted her.

She adorned herself and went to R. Akiva. When he saw her, he spat, laughed and cried. She asked "why did you do these three things?"

He said to her "I will explain two of them, but not the third. I spat because you come from a putrid drop [of semen]. I cried about such (your) beauty that will decay in the ground [after death];

He laughed because he saw with Ru'ach ha'Kodesh that in the future she will convert and marry him, but he did not want to inform her.

She asked "is Teshuvah [possible for me]?" He said "yes". She converted and married him, and brought to him much money.

Reference: The case of Keti'a bar Shalom is explicit in Avodah Zarah (10b).

Explanation: In Kesuvos (63a), the Gemara explains that he was Pose'ach for him "had you known that your son-in-law would be a Chacham, would you have vowed?", and he said "[had I thought that he would learn] even one Perek, or even one Halachah [I would not have vowed]."

Question: Why was he able to use this Pesach? It is Nolad (it was not foreseeable at the time of the vow)!

(Mishnah - 64a): We are not Pose'ach with Nolad. What is the case? He said "Konam, I will not benefit [from] Ploni", and Ploni became a Sofer, and [the Noder] says "had I known that he will become a Sofer, I would not have vowed."

Note: Most explain that "Sofer" is a scribe. The Ran's coming words connote that he explains that it is a Chacham.

Answer: Here is different, for R. Akiva married her with intent to become a Sofer, like it says explicitly in Kesuvos (62b. He accepted to go to Bei Rav, i.e. to learn.)

Therefore, this is not Nolad, for it is very common that he will learn one Perek or one Halachah.

Note: This connotes that it is Nolad for someone to become a Chacham. Chidushei ha'Ran (Kesuvos 63a) says that initially, when R. Akiva said "had you known that he would be a Chacham...", he did not intend to permit through a Pesach (until he heard "even one Perek...."). This is unlike Tosfos (Kesuvos 63a), who says that it is common that one who goes to learn becomes a great Chacham.

Gemara: Rav Gamda... Kufa (monkey)

Translation: 'Kufa' means monkey.

Gemara: It fled.

Explanation: It fled, and entered a hole.

Gemara: They gave to him all of them.

Explanation: This was Midas Chasidus; it was not based on letter of the law.

Gemara: Sari (spoiled)

Translation: 'Sari' means [that the wine] spoiled.

Gemara: If they were ugly.

Explanation: They would learn more if they were not beautiful.

Gemara: In order that he can swallow it.

Explanation: The size that one can swallow it at once, without chewing.

Gemara: It sticks on it.

Explanation: The pain is caught on and clings to the egg.

Gemara: When it goes out.

Explanation: When [the egg] leaves the body.

Gemara: The doctor will know what medicine he needs.

Explanation: Based on its appearance, the doctor will know what medicine will cure the illness.

Gemara: B'Kulcha

Remark: I do not know what this is. Because Shmuel was not expert about a Tormita egg, he used to check himself with Kulcha. (Tosfos and the Rosh say that Kulcha is a Tormita egg.)

Gemara: Until his household destroyed their hair due to him.

Explanation: The Kulcha tested him so much to the point that Shmuel fainted. His household , amidst their pain, would unbraid their hair.

Gemara: If one was working with Klufsin (a species of fig).

Translation: 'Klufsin' is a species of fig.

Gemara: He may not eat Benos Shu'ach.

Explanation: It is another species of fig. The reason is, a worker may eat only from the exact species that he is working with.

Gemara: Lifdi (a fig dish).

Translation: 'Lifdi' is a fig dish.

Gemara: Our fathers said "we forgot goodness."

Explanation: This is like it says "Nashisi Tovah" (Eichah 3:17). [Rebbi] was astounded that they were so proficient in kinds of pleasures.

Gemara: Spent for this Chupah.

Explanation: Expenditures for the wedding.