[Avodah] establishing mamzerut

[Arie Folger]

RMB wrote:
> That is discussing bedi'eved, should we accept it as evidence once we're
> told of test results. OTOH, we have a choice -- why do they need to ever
> have the child tested? The meis who may be an agunah's husband ought to be
> tested, the possible mamzeir and the mother's husband ought not. Thus,
> wouldn't the number of agunos freed well outweigh the number of mamzeirim
> identified?

Some are clearly fearful that once testing is halakhicly recognized, we will 
have a number of mamzerim propping up. A mamzer, BTW, may be worse than 
an 'agunah (though the latter might bring about the former), because the psul 
of mamzerut stigmatizes future generations.

> To return to one of my earlier points: I thought that in the case of
> mamzeirus, we do ignore the "hard to ignore" until we're forced to pay

There is a limit. an event that is 99.9999% accurate cannot be ignored.

Arie Folger