1
Reading of the Genizah fragment and R. Eliahu Fulda. The other texts have צמד גפן, the Babylonian term for cotton. Since the plant is called “vine” it must be a potentially perennial plant from the family of Malvaceas, cotton, a linden-tree grown for its bast, or jute from a kind of Corchorus.
2
This word is missing in the Rome ms.
3
Reading of the Rome ms. and one ms. quoted by R. Solomon Adani in his Mishnah commentary. Venice: כרם ולא כלאים.
4
Text of the Mishnah. In the Yerushalmi mss.: לבעלין.
5
In Babli Baba Qama 9a, Rav Huna prescribes that for meritorious deeds one never should pay more than one third over the going rate. (Maimonides follows the opinion of Rav Huna who has precedence over Rav Sheshet in matters of ritual).