[Avodah] how to 'fix' a mamzer

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From: M Cohen via Avodah <avodah at lists.aishdas.org>

R  Tarfon at the end of the 3rd chap of kiddushin gives an eitza for a  
mamzer
who wants to 'purified' - to have relations w a shifcha which will  produce
children avodim, and then free the children (who will then become  regular
Jews)


Mordechai cohen
 


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There is no "shifcha" today. But a mamzer can marry a non-Jewish woman  and 
have children with her, and later those children can convert to  Judaism.  
I'm not saying he is halachically allowed to marry a non-Jewish  woman but 
the fact is, if he does so, his children will not be mamzerim.   Similarly a 
kohen who is a challal can avoid having children who are challalim  by 
having children with a non-Jewish woman, and later they can convert and be  
kosher Jews.  True, a woman who's a convert can't marry a kohen so his  daughters 
won't be able to marry kohanim.  But at least  his children won't be cha
llalim, so they can marry most Jews, and the  /children/ of converts can marry 
anyone, so his grandchildren can marry  anyone.
 
However my father z'l strongly disapproved of telling people such eitzos to 
 avoid messing up their kids.  I suppose he felt it was tantamount to  
telling a man that it's OK to sin because he can avoid the  consequences of sin.
 
--Toby Katz
t613k at aol.com
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