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R' Yoḥanan explains: Granted, according to my explanation of the Mishnah, that I say that the proof must be presented by bringing witnesses, I can explain the baraita. Since R' Akiva said to the buyers: Bring witnesses, and they did not find witnesses, this is the reason that they came and said to
R' Shimon ben Lakish replies: Do you maintain that the property stood in the possession of the members of his family and the buyers came and contested their possession of the property? Rather, the property stood in the possession of the buyers, and the members of his family came and contested the sa
This, too, stands to reason, as R' Akiva said to the claimants: You are not permitted to disgrace him, and they were silent. Granted, if you say that the members of his family were contesting the sale, due to that reason they were silent, as they accepted that they should not disgrace their relativ
The Talmud rejects this argument: If it is due to that reason, i.e., this claim they could have said, there is no conclusive argument. This is what R' Akiva said to them: One reason to prohibit exhuming the body is that you are not permitted to disgrace him. And furthermore, if you should say: He to
The Talmud suggests: Come and hear a proof: R' Shimon ben Lakish asked R' Yoḥanan about that which is taught in the Mishnah of bar Kappara: There was one who was continually enjoying the profits from a field, and it was the presumption that it was his, and someone contested his claim, saying: It i