Está prohibido sembrar [diferentes] especies [de semillas que normalmente se cultivan en grandes campos] en una cama, pero se pueden sembrar especies [diferentes] de hierbas en una cama. La mostaza y los guisantes pequeños son semillas [consideradas], [mientras que los guisantes grandes son hierbas [consideradas]. [Si] se bajó un borde [alrededor de una cama] que tenía una anchura de una mano, sigue siendo válido, porque originalmente era válido. Un surco o un canal de agua [seco] que tiene una profundidad de una mano, se puede sembrar tres especies [diferentes] de semillas, una [especie] en un lado y una [especie] en el otro lado y una en el medio.
English Explanation of Mishnah Kilayim
Introduction
This mishnah is a direct continuation of yesterday’s mishnah.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Kilayim
They may not sow different species of seeds in one bed, but they may sow different species of vegetables in one bed. In yesterday’s mishnah we learned that in some cases it is permitted to plant five different species in one furrow, six handbreadths by six handbreadths. Our mishnah says that this refers only to vegetables, because it is customary to plant small patches of vegetables. However, it does not apply to seeds, because it is customary to plant them in larger areas, and therefore planting many seeds in one small patch is forbidden because it looks too much like kilayim.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Kilayim
Mustard and small polished peas are a species of seed; large peas are a species of vegetable. The mishnah identifies mustard and a certain small species of peas as being species of seeds, whereas it identifies larger peas as being a species of vegetable.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Kilayim
If a border was originally a handbreadth high and then it fell in height, it remains valid, since it was valid at the beginning. If the border wall was originally high enough to plant on top of it twelve species and then it started to deteriorate, he does not have to uproot all of the seeds which he planted there, since he planted them with permission.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Kilayim
A furrow or water channel which are a handbreadth deep, it is permitted to sow three different species of vegetables, one on one side, one on the other side, and one in the middle. If there is a furrow or water channel that is one handbreadth deep he can plant one species on each side of the furrow, and one species in the middle, because the depth is considered a separation.
