Commentary for Pesachim 183:4

השומע על מתו וכו': מלקט עצמות הא בעי הזאת שלישי ושביעי אימא שליקטו לו עצמות:

ONE WHO HEARS ABOUT HIS DEAD etc. ONE WHO COLLECTS BONES? - But he requires sprinkling on the third and the seventh [days]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Mishnah was understood literally as meaning that he himself gathered them; but these defile just like a corpse, and he is unclean for seven days, and must be besprinkled on the third and the seventh days (Num. XIX, 19) .');">⁷</span> - Say: One for whom [his parent's] bones were collected.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By others: he himself is nevertheless regarded as an onen on that day.');">⁸</span>

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