Kilayim 7:1 - 7:2

המבריך את הגפן בארץ – and it passes the sinking outside of six handbreadths, for within six handbreadths, even that there is dirt upon it for three handbreadths, it is prohibited, because it is the tilling of an individual vine.

לא יביא זרע עליה [the underground vine] – but from the side, it is permitted, for when one seeds to the sides, they don’t take root, but rather that they make the crushed earth and it affects the foundations of the wall when they are sown next to it, but their roots grow from the side. But the reason that one should not bring seed upon the sunken vine even outside of its tilling is because the vine is soft and the roots of the seeds enter the vine and there is the sinking of a vegetable in the tree, but the rest of the trees that are not soft is permitted.

אפילו הבריכה בדלעת או בסלון (if in sinking a vine he conducted it through gourd shells or through a pipe – so that it could draw no nourishment from the ground which it passed) – that he inserted the vine within the gourd or within the pipe, it is prohibited because the roots of the seeds perforate and penetrate until the vine when there are not three handbreadths of dirt upon it. And because the seeds in a gourd is not forbidden as for example, that the gourd is dry.

סלון – it is a water pipe and a tube/spout or one pipe. But especially in an earthenware pipe/tube, we are speaking of a metal tube that does not require dirt of three handbreadths.

הבריכה בסלע – in a hard [rock], for a soft rock [penetrates] and is opened from the roots.

הארכובה שבגפן – a vine that is curved and bent on the ground and returns and is put up like a kind of curved knee, when hey come to measure six handbreadths that are the tilling of the individual vine, hey measure from the second root from the place where it returns and stands up straight. But these words apply when the first root is not seen but rather it is similar to a tree when it is planted in the place of its bending, but if the first root appears that it is the root of the curved vine, we don’t measure other than from the first root.

המבריך שלש גפנים – it is the manner of one who sinks [vine shoots] when two vine-shoots go out from one vine, he digs in the ground and lays the vine-shoots down underneath the ground at that hole and removes its head from one side and it becomes a vine, it is found from three vines, we make six. And the same law applies that one can teach about one [who grafts/sinks] two vines from three for through this it is vineyard, for there are two corresponding to the two, and one comes out with a tail.

ועקריהן נראין – for he did not lay down all of the vine in the ground, for [if this were not the case], there would not be three making six vines, but rather that he left the root and made from one vine- two vines.

אם יש – between one vine and another, not less than four [cubits] and not more than eight [cubits], they combine, even though that two absorb from one root, we consider them like two vines.

גפן שיבשה אסורה – it is prohibited to sow within its tillage because of the question of appearance/מראית העין, but if he sowed, it is not sanctified, and it doesn’t matter that in the winter that it is forbidden to sow underneath it for one is concerned for appearance, for all of the vines appear like dried-out/withered ones, but even during the summer when it is recognized that it is withered it is forbidden, because also during the summer, there are vines that fall upon them and appear like withered but they are withered/dried out.

צמר גפן – a soft, spongy, hackled wool that they call KUTRUN – and its tree is similar to a vine, is prohibited and is not sanctified because it is not a species of seed.

אף על גבי הגפן – if one seeded on top of the vine that is sunken in the ground, but without three handbreadths of dirt on it, it is prohibited and is not sanctified . But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Meir nor according to Rabbi Eleazar b’Rabbi Tzadok who said it in his name.