Kilayim 8:1 - 8:2

כלאי הכרם אסורים מלזרוע – but he is not flogged because of diverse kinds in a vineyard until he sows two kinds of seeds which are mixed seeds/Kilayim one to the other, and he sows them in the vineyard, for this is implied by the Scriptural verse (Deuteronomy 22:9): “You shall not sow your vineyard with a second kind of seed,” – you shall not sow two kinds of seeds which are mixed seeds/Kilayim within your vineyard, but if you sowed [them] in a vineyard, you are flogged twice because of [both] mixed seeds and because of diverse kinds of the vineyard.

ומלקיים – if he sees them and he gives up hope to uproot them [from the ground], it is prohibited , but he is not flogged other than if he commits a [positive] action.

ואסורים בהנאה – as it is written (Deuteronomy 22:9): “else the crop – from the seed you have sown – [and the yield of the vineyard may not be used],” [the Rabbis explained] that it is set on fire, teaching that they require burning and that they are prohibited from deriving benefit.

אלא ללבוש – and the same law applies about placing it upon oneself, as it is written (Leviticus 19:19): “you shall not put on cloth [from two kinds of mixture].”

אלא להרביע – to forcibly with his strength bring them into a tube, but it is permit to bring them into a pen and to raise them two species one next to the other, a male of this species and a female of another species.

כלאי בהמה אסורים זה עם זה – as for example those born from a horse whose father was a donkey with those born of a donkey whose father was horse, but our Mishnah brings according to the opinion that we are not concerned about the seed of the father, for one who states that we are concerned about all kinds of mules are one, they are permitted one to the other. But in the Jerusalem Talmud, they (i.e., the Rabbis) wanted to prove that it is prohibited to ride on a mule from an a fortiori, for just as if regarding clothing you are permitted to wear this on top of that (i.e., mixed seeds), [but] you are prohibited in their mixture, an animal in which you are prohibited from directing/leading this one with that one, is it not all the more so, that you are prohibited in its mixture, and we raise the following difficulty: Isn’t it written (2 Samuel 13:29): “whereupon the other princes mounted their mules and fled,” regarding the sons of David when Amnon was killed, but we teach that one cannot learn from the [family] of the kingdom, further, we raise the difficulty, but surely it is written (1 Kings 1:33): “[The king said to them: ‘Take my loyal soldiers] and have my son Solomon ride on my mule [and bring him down to Gihon],’” and we respond that this creature is from the six days of creation. But however, we see that for the Rabbis that those who are older before me – that they ride before him first on mules and they did not protest in the matter, but rather, that they warn [them’ that they should not lead together two mules, for perhaps one of them was born from a donkey and its father was a horse, and the other was from a horse and is father was a donkey.

בהמה עם בהמה וחיה עם חיה וכו' – even though that the All-Merciful stated (Deuteronomy 22:10): “You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together,” we derive [from an analogy] "שור""שור" (Deuteronomy 22:10 and Deuteronomy 5:14: “[you shall not do any work – you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave,] your ox or your ass, or any of your cattle,” from Shabbat (see also Tractate Bava Kamma, Chapter 5, Mishnah 7) and the same law applies for all the cattle, wildlife and birds.

ולמשוך ולהנהיג – to pull that which it is customary to pull/drawing and to lead where it is customary to lead; a camel its manner is to pull and a donkey its manner is through leading. But however, whether [speaking] of a camel or [speaking] of a donkey, one is liable, whether by pulling/drawing or whether by leading.