[Avodah] Likut Atzomos

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 07:13:34PM -0400, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: I thought they did not "bury their dead in a grave" but kept the bones in  
: some kind of container until the flesh decayed, after which they buried the  
: bones...

They buried people in caves. The logistics of how to place as many
shelves for bodies along the walls of the cave, or by digging holes
depthwise into those walls, comes up in Mes Eiruvin.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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