[Avodah] Donor Kids and Adoption

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:53:28AM -0400, T613K at aol.com wrote to Areivim:
: I guess you are assuming that biological siblings are going to end up  
: mating and that their offspring will therefore be mamzerim. But is it the case
: that the offspring of a brother and sister are mamzerim? ...

Yes, they would be mamzeirim, even if it was beshogeig. The question I
have is whether AID, even where the donor is Jewish, actually produces
a halachic sibling. Isn't it like the question WRT surrogacy, whether
the surrogate or the egg donor would be the halachic mother?

Anyway, this cheshash WRT accidentally marrying a sibling is one cited
in the literature on halakhah and adoption. So if they are sibling, I
guess this would be the same problem.

But I don't understand how rov wouldn't apply -- it's a mi'ut delo shekhichah
that the girl just happens to meet her biological brother.

: know the answer to this question -- especially if the brother and sister  
: do not know that they are brother and sister.

An agunah who remarried because beis din told her she could assume her
husband was dead could also produce a mamzer. It has nothing to do with
guilt; which makes sense to me, as the mamzer himself isn't guilty in
any case.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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