Vineyard farming on a cairo genizah fragment of bavli eruvin 3b-4b

The article refers to a Cairo Genizah fragment related to Bavli, Tractate Eruvin 3b-4b, identified as Cambridge, UL T-S F1 (1) 44. FGP No. C 96445. It deals with the work in the vineyard, measurements and distances related to planting vines in the vineyard, and various terms related to matters of vineyard farming. All these were first applied in ancient Jewish farming and continue to this day. These measurements and terms are K ayim, Deuteronomy 22.9). The meaning of the decree is that plants belonging to different species, for instance grains and legumes, should not be sown together, indistinctly. The paper opens with a description of the Genizah fragment and a reproduction of this fragment. It concludes with a reference to the content and with several comments that endeavour to characterize the fragment.