Commentary for Niddah 113:46
מהו דתימא
is a case where he walks backward and forward throughout all its area.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which may well be taken as reliable evidence that there was no grave there. Our Mishnah, however, refers to a case where the Samaritan walks only across a part of the field. As he omits the other part there is reason to suspect that he knows it to contain a grave and that his evidence on the doubtful part of the field is intended to mislead Israelites so that they become subject to an uncleanness in which he himself does not believe. Hence the ruling of our Mishnah. ');"><sup>40</sup></span>
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