Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Batra 203:4

במאי אוקימתא כר' שמעון אימא סיפא בודק הימנו ולהלן עשרים אמה מני אי ר"ש עשרים ותרתין הויין אי רבנן תמני סרי הויין

According to whom [is this Mishnah]? If according to the Rabbis, surely they said [that the area of a grotto is to be] four cubits by six? If according to R. Simeon, surely he said [that the grotto must contain an area of] six [cubits] by eight? — [This Mishnah] is, in fact, [in agreement with] R. Simeon; but it is [in accordance with the version of R. Simeon's view as reported by] the following Tanna. For it has been taught: 'If they<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the corpses. ');">¹⁰</span> were found close to one another, and there was not a distance of four to eight cubits between them, the earth surrounding their bodies belongs to them but they do not constitute the ground as a graveyard. R. Simeon b. Judah said in the name of R. Simeon: The intervening ones are regarded as if they did not exist and the rest are combined,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To constitute the ground as a graveyard. ');">¹¹</span> [if the distance is] from four to eight cubits'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This author [it is who] is of the opinion that according to R. Simeon these are the dimensions. ');">¹²</span>

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