Shabbat 170

Chapter 170

א גזירה שמא ימלא את הקרנות ולא יהא אלא ראש תור ירק מי לא תנן היה ראש תור ירק נכנס לתוך שדה אחר מותר מפני שנראה סוף שדה אין ראש תור בערוגה
1 — It is a preventive measure, lest he fill up the corners. Yet let it not be other than a triangular plot<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'an ox-head'. ');"><sup>1</sup></span> of vegetables? Did we not learn, If a triangular plot of vegetables enters another field,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sown with other crops. Fields were generally ended off in a triangular shape. ');"><sup>2</sup></span> this is permitted, because it is evidently the end of a field?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though it comes right up to the other crops, one can see that there has been no indiscriminate sowing (cf. note on our Mishnah, p. 403, n. 5); the same should apply here. ');"><sup>3</sup></span>
ב ושמואל אמר ערוגה בין הערוגות שנינו והא קא מיתערבי בהדדי בנוטה שורה לכאן ושורה לכאן
2 — [The permissibility of] a triangular plot does not apply to a seed-bed.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because in the proposed case there is nothing to show that the different strips are distinct. ');"><sup>4</sup></span> But Samuel maintained: We learnt of a seed-bed in the midst of [other] seed-beds. But they intermingle? — He inclines one strip in one direction and one strip in another direction, 'Ulla said: They asked in the West [Palestine]: What if a person draws one furrow across the whole?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rashi: From north to south, crossing the middle seeds, this furrow being either of one of the five seeds or of a sixth. Tosaf: The furrow is drawn right round the four sides of the plot but deepened (by a handbreadth) and the question is whether this deepening constitutes a distinguishing mark, so that it shall be permitted. ');"><sup>5</sup></span>
ג אמר עולא בעו במערבא הפקיע תלם אחד על פני כולה מהו אמר רב ששת בא ערבוב וביטל את השורה רב אסי אמר אין עירובו מבטל את השורה איתיביה רבינא לרב אשי הנוטע שתי שורות של קישואין שתי שורות של דילועין שתי שורות של פול המצרי מותר שורה אחת של קישואין ושורה אחת של דילועין ושורה אחת של פול המצרי אסור שאני הכא דאיכא שראכא
3 R. Shesheth maintained: The intermingling comes and annuls the strips.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., it is not a distinguishing mark, but on the contrary breaks up the separateness of the other strips, and so is forbidden. ');"><sup>6</sup></span> R. Assi said: The intermingling does not annul the strips. Rabina raised an objection to R. Ashi: If one plants two rows of cucumbers, two rows of gourds, and two rows of Egyptian beans, they are permitted;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Two rows constitute a field, and therefore each plant is regarded as in a separate field, though they are in proximity to each other. ');"><sup>7</sup></span> one row of cucumbers, one row of gourds and one of Egyptian beans, they are forbidden?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This proves that a single row effects a prohibited intermingling. ');"><sup>8</sup></span>
ד אמר רב כהנא א"ר יוחנן הרוצה למלאות כל גינתו ירק עושה ערוגה ששה על ששה ועוגל בה חמשה וממלא קרנותיה כל מה שירצה
4 — Here it is different, because there is entanglement.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Their leaves become entangled above as they grow high. On this account they are forbidden. ');"><sup>9</sup></span> R. Kahana said in R. Johanan's name: If one desires to fill his whole garden with vegetables,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of different kinds. ');"><sup>10</sup></span> he can divide it into<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'make'. ');"><sup>11</sup></span>
ה והא איכא דביני וביני אמרי דבי רבי ינאי במחריב בין הביניים רב אשי אמר אם היו זרועין שתי זורען ערב ערב זורען שתי איתיביה רבינא לרב אשי עבודת ירק בירק אחר ששה טפחים ורואין אותם
5 bed[s] six [handbreadths] square, describe in each a circle five [handbreadths in diameter], and fill its corners with whatever he pleases.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus (see drawing): planting in this way shows that there has been no indiscriminate intermingling. ');"><sup>12</sup></span> But there is the [space] between [the beds]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Viz., the borders which are to be left fallow, v. supra a. ');"><sup>13</sup></span> — Said the School of R. Jannai: He leaves the interspaces waste.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Johanan's phrase 'his whole garden' is not meant literally, but merely applies to the seed-beds into which it is divided. ');"><sup>14</sup></span> R. Ashi said: If they [the beds] are sown in the length, he sows them [the interspaces] in the breadth, and vice versa.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' in this way literally the whole garden can be filled. ');"><sup>15</sup></span> Rabina objected to R. Ashi: The planting<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'working'. ');"><sup>16</sup></span> of one vegetable with another [requires] six handbreadths [square],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., within a bed of this area it is possible to plant a number of different kinds of vegetables, as stated in our Mishnah. ');"><sup>17</sup></span> and they are regarded
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