שולחן ערוך יורה דעה · סימן שס״ה

English

One who digs a sepulchral chamber for a corpse is exempt from reading the Shema , from [reciting] the Tefillah § 341, 2. and from [wearing] phylacteries and from all religious duties enjoined in the Torah. If they were two [grave-diggers] and the time for reading the Shema arrived, one comes up adds: ‘and washes his hands.’ and reads the Shema and recites the Tefillah and [then] he returns and digs and his companion comes up and reads the Shema and recites the Tefillah. [And this applies] only to a sepulchral chamber which only one person [usually] digs, but if it was a place where two people may attend to it together, they are [both] exempt. in T.H. Cf. infra § 403, 9.

English

Graves must be kept removed from a town [a distance of] fifty cubits.