איזהו עריס – that the place for him his tilling of four cubits like the tilling of a vineyard even though there is only one row, and the espalier is that they make a partition by means of net-work (i.e., like lattices) with reeds like an arbor in the matter that they gird the bedstead and they suspend upon it the tendrils of the vines, and according to the School of Hillel, they established as they stated above in [Tractate Kilayim] Chapter 4 [Mishnah 5] that it is not a vineyard util there would be two rows there, but in an espalier, they admit that with one row also, it is a vineyard.

מן הגדר ולשדה – as for example, if the vines were planted to the east of the fence and the vine-shoots rise up on the fence, if he comes to sow on the west side of he fence, they do not count four cubits from the base of the vines which are further from the fence, but rather, he needs to distance four cubits from the fence for the tendrils of the vines are suspended upon it. And this is from the leniencies of the School of Shammai and the stringencies of the School of Hillel.

טועים כל האומרים כן – for after all, the School of Hillel did not state that the espalier of one row of vines is a vineyard that would necessitate that they distance from it four cubits to the field, and the law was not mentioned of four cubits for an espalier other than in regard to this matter that if there are four cubits from the base of the vines to the fence on which they are suspended , we give him for his tillage six handbreadths, like we give for an individual vine, and he sows the remainder until the fence, but if there aren’t four cubits from the base of the vines until the fence, he should not bring seed to there, something that resembles a vine which is planted in a vat for wine-pressing or in a cavity/ravine that Rabbi Yossi stated in the chapter above (i.e., Tractate Kilayim, Chapter 5, Mishnah 4) if there aren’t four cubits there, he should not bring seed to there, but Rabbi Yohanan ben Nuri and Rabbi Yossi said one thing and this is explained explicitly in the Jerusalem Talmud.

רבי עקיבא אומר שלשה טפחים – which is the tilling of an individual vine. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Akiva.

מן המדרגה – from a high hill/mound that is made like a kind of embankment (i.e., terrace).

אם כשהוא עומד למטה בארץ – he is able to harvest the grapes that are suspending in the espalier, we view all the espalier as if it is the place of the base of the vines and their roots, and it prohibits four cubits in the field in every direction from the border of the espalier and outward, and specifically ab initio that it prohibits to sow, but it does not sanctify anything other than six handbreadths that this resembles of the remainder of lattice-work of laths which was destroyed in the middle further on in Chapter (7, Mishnah 3).

ואם לאו – that he is not able to harvest all of the grapes until he ascends the embankment/terrace or on a ladder, it is not prohibited to sow other than under the espalier alone, but outside of it, it is permitted, even within four cubits of the base of the vines of the espalier, for since they are standing on the embankment, and such is the Halakha.

אף הנוטע שורה אחת בארץ ושורה אחת במדרגה – from two rows that one needs for it to be considered a vineyard, for now we are not speaking of an espalier, but rather of two rows of vines, two opposite two with one having a tail extending. If the embankment is ten [handbreadths] high, the two rows do not combine to be a vineyard, but rather each and every row has the law of an individual vine. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eliezer.

אפיפירות – wood or reeds that are woven longitudinally and latitudinally and they train upon them tendrils of vines and they cause them to lie on them when they are very long, and if the vine trained upon part of the web, it is forbidden to sow under the remnant and even though it does not have vine-shoots, if he sowed it, he did not sanctify it [the seeds underneath it].

ואם הלך החדש – if the vine grew and produced tendrils and filled up all of the lath.

אסור – the seed that was sown underneath the remnant [is forbidden – as they are sanctified] if he added two hundred after the new growth spread upon them.

וכן המדלה גפן על אילן סרק – its law is like that of the lath, because a person neglects it upon his own vine, and it is as if it is all vines, but a fruit-bearing tree that a person does not neglect upon his vine, that remainder where the vine is not trained over it, is considered on its own and is not like the vine and its remainder to bring seed there.

יחזירנו – to the place where it was initially and he will see the remainder.

עזיז – the name of a place.

אמר לו מותר – for a person does not neglect his fig-tree on account of his vine.

בית המגנייה -name of a place.

סדן של שקמה – the root of he sycamore tree and it is a fig-tree that grows in the forests and we cut from it branches for building.

תחת קורה זו אסור והשאר מותר – when I see each and every branch like its own tree.

הכל אילן סרק (any tree that bears no fruit) – (see also Mishnah 3 of this chapter) that Rabbi Meir holds that all the rest of the trees that a person neglects near his vineyard, and Rabbi Yossi holds that any species where it is customary to plant from it complete fields are considered important and a person does not neglect them because of his vineyard, but the Halakha is according to the first Tanna/teacher that it is a tree that does not produce fruit that is neglected concerning his own vineyard.

עריס שהוא יוצא מן הכותל מתוך הקרן וכלה – as for example five vines that are planted at the side of the fence, and they do not support/strengthen the entire fence but rather three at the head of corner from this side and two at the head of the second corner from there., and in the middle of the wall, there are no vines, but the two corners of the wall stand.

נותנים לו עבודתו – six handbreadths from here and six handbreadths from there and he sows the rest of the wall, and even though the length of the wall is not four cubits.

ר' יוסי אומר אם אין שם ארבע אמות וכו' – Rabbi Yossi, according to his reasoning, who prohibited in the above chapter (see Tractate Kilayim, Chapter 5, Mishnah 4) regarding the vat for wine-pressing and the ravine/cavity, if there aren’t four cubits there [he should not bring seed there], but here it comes to tell us that you do not say especially with a vat for wine-pressing and a ravine/cavity that are closed from the four directions that Rabbi Yossi requires four cubits, but near the wall that is not surrounded from the four directions, I might say not. But if you only taught it regarding this, I would think that in this alone, that Rabbi Yossi requires four cubits, but regarding a vat for wine-pressing and a ravine/cavity where there isn’t anything there other than a singular vine, I would say it is not necessary. And above (Tractate Kilayim, Chapter 5, Mishnah 4) we wrote that the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yossi.

הקנים היוצאים מן העריס – that project forth outside the order of the espalier.

וחס עליהם לפסקן – that he did not leave them there on account that it is was intention to suspend upon them the vine, but rather because he refrained from cutting them alone.

כנגדן מותר – because they are not considered part of the lath/slabs used for espaliers, therefore, it is permitted to sow underneath them.

הפרח היוצא (the blossom of the vine which projects) – from he language of (Song of Songs 6:11): “[I went down to the nut grove o see the budding of the vale;] to see if the vines had blossomed,” that is to say, what that grew from the vine goes out and protrudes outside the espalier.

מטוטלת (plummet, plumb-line) – it is the iron that the buildings lower with a rope downward on the face of the wall to see the building [if] the wall is straight and through it they estimate/measure if the seeds are directed underneath the blossom. But here, we are speaking, as for example that the vine-shoots of the espalier grew more from the tilling and blossomed outside, for through his tilling, even if there is no blossom, it is prohibited.

וכן בדלית ([suspended] branches of the vine trained to an espalier) – and similarly, we measure with an individual vine that is suspended on top of beams/poles which is not an espalier if it blossomed outward for six handbreadths which are its tilling.

תחתיה אסור – under the vine-shoot but from the sides, from here and from there, it is permitted.

ספקה בחבל (if, in training the vine, he attached it to a rope) – that the vine-shoot was not long enough that it would reach from tree to teach, and he tied at its end a rope or reed-grass o length it in order that it would reach until the tree. Underneath the vine-shoot is prohibited; underneath the space where the rope is attached to the vine is permitted. But if he made the attachment in order that new growth would spread over it, it is prohibited to sow underneath it.