תלמוד על כלאים 4:1

“⁷⁷The first sentence here, without the introductory “in earlier times they said”, is the first sentence of Tosephta Šabbat 2:14. The remainder of that Tosephta, in the name of R. Jehudah, parallels the tannaitic text in the next paragraph. They came back to say, a dish which will improve the more it shrinks is forbidden, deteriorate the more it shrinks is permitted. What is a dish better the more it shrinks? Cabbage, peas, and chopped meat.” Rebbi Tanḥum bar Illa said, they also considered heads of turnips and leeks as dishes better the more they shrink. What about eggs? Rebbi Yose in the name of Rebbi Ismael: Rebbi Jeremiah, Rebbi Ḥanina in the name of Rebbi Ismael ben Rebbi Yose: My father came home and found eggs and forbade them, hot water and permitted it⁷⁸In the Tosephta, R. Jehudah permits hot water to stay on an open fire only if it came to a boil before the Sabbath.. Rebbi Samuel bar Natan in the name of Rebbi Ḥama bar Ḥanina: I went with my father to Ḥammat Gader where they brought before us eggs small like ḥizrar apples⁷⁹Cf. Mishnah Kilaim 4:1. The eggs must have been boiled a very long time to shrink to this small size. The statement might disagree with the Babli which reports that Samuel used eggs dipped alternatingly into boiling and cold water 1000 times as a diagnostic device for ulcers and intestinal bleeding since they were so hard that they were not digested and could be examined after evacuation but were small enough to be swallowed whole (Nedarim 50b). and they tasted delicious like sweet bread⁸⁰Probably Greek πάγκρεας, -ατος, τό “sweet bread, pancreas” (E. G.)..

MISHNAH: If one sinks three vines and their stems are visible, Rebbi Eleazar bar Rebbi Zadoq says if there are between them from four to eight cubits, they go together; otherwise, they do not go together¹⁸If one has three vines in a row and sinks a shoot from each one to get another row of three vines, if the distance between the rows and between the vines in one row is between four and eight cubits then one has a legal vineyard since five of the six vines would be enough (Halakhah 4:6). If the distances are too small, one has six single vines.. A dried-up vine is forbidden but does not sanctify¹⁹If one sows within six hand-breadths from a dead vine it does not sanctify.. Rebbi Meïr says, cotton also is forbidden but does not sanctify. Rebbi Eleazar bar Rebbi Zadoq says in his name²⁰In R. Meïr’s name. This attribution is missing in the Genizah ms., probably correctly; cf. Note 23., even on top of the vine it is forbidden²¹The meaning of this sentence will be clarified in the Halakhah. but does not sanctify.
The following are forbidden but do not sanctify: The excess of a dried-up vineyard²⁷By Mishnah 4:1, if a vineyard dried up in the middle, a space of 16 cubits square cannot be sown. But only four cubits on each side are needed for working the vineyard. If the dried-up space contains a square of sides 16-ε, the inner (8-ε)-by-(8-ε) space cannot be worked on as a rabbinic, rather than a biblical prohibition. Working that inner space is forbidden but a transgression does not sanctify either growth or vineyard., the excess of the circumference of a vineyard²⁸By Mishnah 4:2, 12 cubits have to be left empty between a vineyard whose outer rows have died and the fence. Again, if there are 12-ε cubits, of these only four are biblical, the remaining 8-ε have rabbinic status only., the excess of an interrupted trellis²⁹Since the constituent parts of an interrupted trellis do not form vineyards by themselves, of the eight cubits between the inner vines only one cubit on each side (six hand-breadths) will sanctify, the remaining six cubits represent rabbinic prohibition., and the excess of a papyrus³⁰If vines that do not form a vineyard are drawn over papyrus, only the space under any part of any vine is biblically forbidden; the rest is a rabbinic prohibition (Halakhah 6:3).. But under a vine, the working space of a vine, and the four cubits of a vineyard do sanctify.