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to forbidden sex for which one is liable for violation of a prohibition concerning which a betrothal between the couple would take effect. However, here, with regard to a non-Jew and a slave, since their betrothal of a Jewish woman would not take effect, a union with them is comparable to forbidde
The Talmud raises an objection from a baraita: In the case of a non-Jew or a slave who had sex with a Jewish woman, the offspring born from such a union is a mamzer. R' Shimon ben Yehuda says: The offspring is a mamzer only if born from sex with one who is forbidden by a prohibition of forbidden se
Rather, Rav Yosef said: Who is included by saying: All agree? It is R' Yehuda HaNasi, as although R' Yehuda HaNasi says in a baraita (52b) concerning the Mishnah (50a–51b) that states that a levirate betrothal between a yavam and a yevama with whom he had already performed ḥalitza is ineffective: T
The Talmud cites a related incident: R' Aḥa, lord of the capital, and R' Tanḥum, son of R' Ḥiyya, the man of Akko village, redeemed those captives who came from Armon to Tiberias. One of them had been impregnated by a non-Jew, and they came before R' Ami to ask what the offspring’s status would be w
Upon hearing this, Rav Yosef said: Is it so great to enumerate men? The fact that several great rabbis held this opinion does not prove that their opinion is the accepted halakha. But there are Rav and Shmuel in Babylonia, and R' Yehoshua ben Levi and bar Kappara in Eretz Yisrael, and some say to r