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One must therefore examine from that spot outward for 20 cubits. If one finds another corpse at the end of 20 cubits, he examines from that spot outward 20 cubits, as there is a basis for anticipating the matter. It is likely that he has stumbled upon an ancient gravesite. He is not permitted to
Talmud: Rav Yehuda said the following inferences from the Mishnah: The phrase: He found, excludes a corpse that already had been found. If it was known that there was one corpse buried in a certain place, the discovery of two previously unknown corpses does not raise the concern that perhaps it is
Ulla bar Ḥanina taught a baraita (Tosefta, Oholot 16:2): A corpse that is lacking a part of his body indispensable to life has no halakha of surrounding earth, i.e., there is no need to remove the nearby earth along with the corpse. Nor does it have the halakha of a graveyard, i.e., it does not joi
The baraita further states: If one found two corpses, with the head of this one by the feet of that one and the head of that one by the feet of this one, they do not have the halakha of surrounding earth, nor do they have the halakha of a graveyard. This is not the way Jews are buried, as corpses i
The baraita relates: An incident occurred involving R' Yeshevav, who examined and found two known corpses and one corpse discovered for the first time, and he wished to deem the 3 corpses a graveyard. R' Akiva said to him: All your toil is in vain. They said it is a graveyard only in a case of 3 kno