Commentary for Shabbat 30:3

אלא אתו אינהו גזור אגושא לתלות ואאוירא ולא כלום ואתו רבנן דפ' שנה גזור אגושא לשרוף ואאוירא לתלות

was decreed in Usha?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A city in Galilee, near Sepphoris and Tiberias, and the scene of an important Rabbinical synod or synods about the time of the Hadrianic persecution in the middle of the second century C.E. V. J.E. 'Synod of Usha'. ');">⁵</span> For we learnt: <i>Terumah</i> is burnt on account of six doubtful cases [of uncleanness]: — [i] The doubt of Beth ha-Peras;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A field one square peras (peras half the length of a furrow — fifty cubits) in area, declared unclean because a grave was ploughed in it and the crushed bones scattered over the field, so that their exact position is not known, If terumah enters its atmosphere it must be burnt, though it is doubtful whether it was actually over the crushed bones. ');">⁶</span>

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