Kilayim 3:2 - 3:3

כל מין זרעים אין זורעים בערוגה – that we permitted above (in Mishnah 1) five seeds in garden-bedand thirteen kinds of seeds that when there is a border of a handbreadth, these words concern the species of vegetables that is customary to seed them garden-bed by garden-bed, but not species of seeds which are customary to sow them in a large field because they appear like mixed seeds/Kilayim.

אפונים השופים – smooth beans (without incisions) that appear as if they are smoothed with a utensil that smooth them, that the wood levels them . Another explanation: beans [small smooth faced], large-sized, thick and big beans in the Aramaic language we call a large thing גמלונא/large.

גבול – a kind of portico/balcony of stamped clay/plaster that they make around the garden-bed for the human treading of feet.

שהיה גבוה טפח – when they sowed [in it twelve kinds of seeds], and it was diminished, the seeds are permitted that grow in it even after it became diminished and there is no need to uproot [them] because of [concern of] establishing mixed seeds/Kilayim since it was appropriate/fit from its outset at the time of sowing; but however, he is not able to sow it [ab initio] after it became diminished until he raises it to the height of a handbreadth.

אחת מכאן – on the border of the ridge/furrow to its width and one on the other rim and one in the middle of the furrow/ridge and he goes and sows from every species until they will be distant one from the other a handbreadth and one-half, and when they are one handbreadth deep to something remarkable that it (i.e., the Mishnah) took for in the Jerusalem Talmud there is an opinion that forbade it for it appears as planting one species too near another species (producing Kilayim).

ראש תור – corner-piece that is sharpened enters into another field, like the golden doves of women’s jewelry that have three sharpened corners.

שהוא נראה כסוף שדהו – and it is recognized but it does not appear like Kilayim/mixed seeds (see Tractate Kilayim, Chapter 2, Mishnah 7).

מפולש – open from two sides like an alley opening into a street (not closed by a required fictitious partition) that is open from two directions.

ר' עקיבא אומר אורך ששה טפחים – we don’t require open but rather that the furrow that is seeded is is six handbreadths in length even though other seed surrounds it from three directions, it is permitted.

ורוחב מלואו- that is six handbreadths which is the measure of the width of the furrow, and Rabbi Yishmael also requires the width of the furrow fully as wide even though he did not explain his words for since that Rabbi Akiva is lenient and don’t require open, he requires fully as wide, all the more so Rabbi Yishmael who is stringent. But Maimonides explained that fully as wide [means] that its width will be [like its depth].

רוחב פרסה (width of the sole of the foot) – which is a handbreadth but it doesn’t state that the width is a handbreadth because it derives it from Scripture, as it is written (Deuteronomy 11:10): “[For the land that you are about to enter and possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come. There the grain you sowed] had to be watered by your own labors, like a vegetable garden,” that there needs to be between each vegetable a place for the placing down of the foot (see Talmud Shabbat 85a), which is the width of the sole of the foot , and the Halakah is according to Rabbi Akiva, but in our chapter that is above, it is taught in the Mishnah (see Tractate Kilayim, Chapter 2, Mishnah 10), that vegetables [of one kind which are to be sown in a field containing] vegetables [of another kind must themselves cover an area of] six handbreadths square, there we are speaking between a green field and [another] green field that one must distance one from the other six handbreadths, but here we are speaking of someone coming to plant one row of vegetables within a field as it is taught in the Mishnah explicitly, and he requests to plant within it a row of another vegetable, therefore, the wide furrow interrupts for the one as he has it and the other as he has it.