Kilayim 3:6 - 3:7

עוקר שתי שורות ונוטע שורה אחת – the measurement of the ow is not less than four cubits wide, and when he uproots two rows of onions which are eight cubits, and plants in the middle of them one row of gourds which are four cubits, there remained two cubits of uncultivated ground from one side and two cubits of uncultivated ground from the other side.

ומניח קמת בצלים ב' שורות – which are eight cubits wide and he uproots two rows which are like eight cubits and plants in their middle one row of gourds which is four cubits, it is found that between the first row of gourds to the standing crop of onions is two cubits of uncultivated land and the standing crop of onions is eight cubits, and the two cubits of uncultivated land between the standing crow of onions to the second row of gourds, there are between a row of gourds and another row of gourds twelve cubits and so always.

רבי עקיבא אומר עוקר ב' שורות ונוטע שתי שורות – he holds that one does not have to interrupt between the two rows of gourds to the standing crop of onions other than a furrow, as is it taught in the Mishnah above in our chapter (Tractate Kilayim, Chapter 3, Mishnah 3) with regard to the rest of the vegetables. And between rows of gourds to the rows of gourds there is an interruption of eight cuits of standing onions alone.

וחכמים אומרים אם אין בין שורה לחברתה י"ב אמה וכו' – The Sages hold like Rabbi Yishmael that there needs to be between one row of gourds to its neighbor twelve cubits, however Rabbi Yishmael requires an interruption of two uncultivated cubits between the row of gourds to the standing crop of onions, but he Sages permit placing a row of gourds adjacent to a standing crop of opinions, and don’t reuire anything other than only one furrow like the rest of the vegetation. But the Sages require twelve cubits between the row of gourds to its neighbor because the leaves of the gourds are wide and spread out greatly, in order that it should not appear that the entire field is combined/mixed with onions and gourds. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.

דלעת כירק- a person who comes to plant gourd next to vegetables tills them like vegetables, that is six handbreadths (see Tractate Kilayim, Chapter 2, Mishnah 10). But if he comes to plant gourd with grain, he must widen it to be a Bet Rova (i.e., the minimum area required in order to sow one-quarter of a Kab of produce – 104 1/6 square cubits), like the measurement of tilling grain which is ten cubits and two and one-half cubits by ten cubits, which is the space of the sowing of a Rova of a Kab.

שורה של דלועים נותנים לה עבודתה ששה טפחים – and the row is lenient than an individual gourd, for an individual gourd in a [plot of] grain requires a Bet Rova (i.e., 104 1/6 square cubits), because a row is recognized on its own and there is no confusion like with an individual gourd, and six handbreadths that is taught here in the Mishnah is the measurement of width, but the measurement of length is not explained in our Mishnah but in the Tosefta it is explained that the measurement of the length is twelve and one-half cubits.

ואם הגדילה – [if] the row [of gourds grew larger] and their branches entered within the six handbreadths, he should uproot from before it all of the branches that spread and entered within this measurement.

נותנין לה עבודתה – of the row of gourds four cubits, for it needs to distance four cubits from the grain.

התחמיר זו מן הגפן – as it is taught in the Mishnah further on in [Tractate Kilayim] Chapter four [Mishnah 5], a person who plants a row of five vines, the School of Hillel states that it is not vineyard and he doesn’t grant it the tilling of the vineyard of four cubits, but rather six handbreadths, and this is also in a row of gourd one should not be stringent and give them four cubits, for one is not more stringent with regard to mixed seeds [of vegetations] than with mixed seeds in a vineyard.

מצינו שזו חמורה מן הגפן – even though the prohibition of mixed seeds [with vegetables] is more lenient than the prohibition of mixed seeds of a vineyard, nevertheless, we find ha regarding an individual vine, when he comes o plant it with grain, we grant it its tilling of six handbreadths, and for an individual gourd we give it a Bet Rova which is ten cubits and two and one-half handbreadths by ten cubits because it spreads out and goes from afar, here two we should not be amazed if one row of vnes we give it tillage of six handbreadths but for a row of gourds we five it four cubits.

כל שלשה דלועין לבית סאה – Rabbi Meir disputes the first Tanna/teacher who stated that for an individual gourd planted among grain, we provide it a Bet Rova, but he thinks that we give it one =-thrid of a Bet Seah, and Rabbi Yosi ben HaChotef Efrati holds one-third of a Bet Kor. But the Halakha is not accoding to the words of all of them, but rather only according to the First Tanna/teacher [of the Mishnah]. And the gourd that is taught in our Mishnah is only the Greek gourd that its leaves are wide and creep and are more entangled. But the Egyptian gourd with the rest of the gourds, their law is like that of the rest of the vegetables.