Talmud for Moed Katan 47:18

ואיכא דמתני להא דרב גידל בר מנשיא אהא כל ל' יום תינוק יוצא בחיק ונקבר באשה אחת ושני אנשים אבל לא באיש אחד ושתי נשים

or are they not [to be] sewed up? - On that, [Nahmani]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Hyman Toledoth I, 116a. hkebut');">²²</span> father of R'Oshaia and Bar Kappara held different views, one saying that the rents are [to be] sewed up and the other saying that they are not [to be] sewed up. May it be inferred that it was the father of R'Oshaia that said that these were not [to be] sewed up, as R'Oshaia said that they were not [to be] sewed up; from whom had he heard this if not from his father? - Not [necessarily]: he [R'Oshaia] heard it from his master, [who was] Bar Kappara. Raba said, A mourner may walk about in his [rent] wrap<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Heb. , probably the Latin amiculum, an upper cloak. Cf. Becker's Gallus (E.T. ed. 4) Exctirsus II on dress, p. 436ff.');">²³</span> indoors [on the Sabbath]. Abaye found R'Joseph going in and out of his house, his head covered with a sudarium<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A square piece of cloth worn as a kerchief.');">²⁴</span> [on the Sabbath]. Said he to him:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Abaye was a disciple of R. Joseph.');">²⁵</span> Do you not, sir, hold the view that there is to be no [observance of] mourning on the Sabbath? - He replied: Thus said R'Johanan: 'Intimate [forms of] mourning may be maintained [on the Sabbath]'. R'ELIEZER SAYS, SINCE THE SANCTUARY [AT JERUSALEM] WAS LAID IN RUINS [THE FEAST OF] 'AZERETH<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Feast of Weeks. V. Mishnah and notes supra 19a.');">²⁶</span> [IS CONSIDERED] AS AN [ORDINARY] SABBATH, etc. Said R'Giddal B'Menashia as citing Samuel, The halachah follows the opinion of Rabban Gamaliel. And some attach this comment of R'Giddal B'Menashia to [the following Baraitha]: 'Any infant up to thirty days old is carried out in arms<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'bosom'.');">²⁷</span> and buried by one woman and two men, but not by one man and two women.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For reasons of propriety. Cf. Kid. 80b.');">²⁸</span>

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