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face=Arial>From: M Cohen via Avodah <avodah@lists.aishdas.org><BR><BR>R
Tarfon at the end of the 3rd chap of kiddushin gives an eitza for a
mamzer<BR>who wants to 'purified' - to have relations w a shifcha which will
produce<BR>children avodim, and then free the children (who will then become
regular<BR>Jews)<BR><BR><BR>Mordechai cohen</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>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 challalim, so they can marry most Jews, and the
/children/ of converts can marry anyone, so his grandchildren can marry
anyone.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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