Kilayim 5:8 - 6:1

רבי אליעזר אומר קדש – for certainly in Arabia they maintain thorns in the vineyard in order that their camels will graze, but after that some of the people maintain them in their fields, they become Kilayim/mixed seeds in every place, nonetheless, for it is better that we call it (Deuteronomy 22:9): “that you have sown” that implies what human beings have the practice of sowing and desire in their maintenance.

לא קדש אלא דבר שכמוהו מקיימים – in that place like thorns in Arabia because for that sake they maintain them, but in other places when they do not maintain/preserve them, it is permitted. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.

האירוס (lily with an aromatic root)– a species of vegetation whose leaves are wide and one places it in cooked dishes and they call it in Arabic SUSENBAR.

והקיסום (ivy)– ADRA in the foreign tongue that they trained it on the stores and on the windows.

ושושנת המלך (white lily) – ROSIN in the foreign tongue

וכל מיני זרעים אינן כלאים בכרם – from the Torah, but from the Rabbis, they are Kilaim, and this is brought in [Tractate] Menahot [15b].

קנבוס – KANAPO in the foreign tongue and in Arabic KINIB.

וחכ"א כלאים – and the Halakha is according to the Sages.

הקנרס (artichoke)– in Arabic KARFUSH and in the foreign tongue KARDO, and it is the thistle that is mentioned in the Torah (Genesis 3:18): “Thorns and thistles shall it sprout for you [but your food shall be the grasses of the field].”

איזהו עריס – that the place for him his tilling of four cubits like the tilling of a vineyard even though there is only one row, and the espalier is that they make a partition by means of net-work (i.e., like lattices) with reeds like an arbor in the matter that they gird the bedstead and they suspend upon it the tendrils of the vines, and according to the School of Hillel, they established as they stated above in [Tractate Kilayim] Chapter 4 [Mishnah 5] that it is not a vineyard util there would be two rows there, but in an espalier, they admit that with one row also, it is a vineyard.

מן הגדר ולשדה – as for example, if the vines were planted to the east of the fence and the vine-shoots rise up on the fence, if he comes to sow on the west side of he fence, they do not count four cubits from the base of the vines which are further from the fence, but rather, he needs to distance four cubits from the fence for the tendrils of the vines are suspended upon it. And this is from the leniencies of the School of Shammai and the stringencies of the School of Hillel.

טועים כל האומרים כן – for after all, the School of Hillel did not state that the espalier of one row of vines is a vineyard that would necessitate that they distance from it four cubits to the field, and the law was not mentioned of four cubits for an espalier other than in regard to this matter that if there are four cubits from the base of the vines to the fence on which they are suspended , we give him for his tillage six handbreadths, like we give for an individual vine, and he sows the remainder until the fence, but if there aren’t four cubits from the base of the vines until the fence, he should not bring seed to there, something that resembles a vine which is planted in a vat for wine-pressing or in a cavity/ravine that Rabbi Yossi stated in the chapter above (i.e., Tractate Kilayim, Chapter 5, Mishnah 4) if there aren’t four cubits there, he should not bring seed to there, but Rabbi Yohanan ben Nuri and Rabbi Yossi said one thing and this is explained explicitly in the Jerusalem Talmud.

רבי עקיבא אומר שלשה טפחים – which is the tilling of an individual vine. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Akiva.