[Avodah] [Areivim] Haaretz: Mamzeirim in Israel

[Moshe Feldman]

On 8/30/06, Ken Bloom <kbloom at gmail.com> wrote on Areivim:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:45:01PM +0300, Moshe Feldman wrote:
> > why would there be a
> > fear that a rabbinic court would rule that a baby born 8 months and 2
> > weeks after the Get would be a mamzer?
>
> Ordinarly it takes 9 months until a baby is born. If this is the case,
> and Y. is the girl's father then she's a mamzeret. Now it's possible
> that she was born early (early enough) that it's not the result of an
> adulterous union as she was already divorced, but I can understand why
> there would be a fear.

But wouldn't a rabbinic court rule that this be a case of a mamzer
safek, which is not a mamzer?

(It's quite possible that the secular court never bothered consulting
with rabbanim.)

Kol tuv,
Moshe