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who is he? He is Rav Yehuda, as the Talmud cited above. But didn’t Rav Yehuda himself say: With regard to one who is a half-slave half-freeman who had sex with a Jewish woman, that offspring of that union has no recourse to be able to marry? It is apparent, then, that even one who permits the off
The Talmud resolves the difficulty: When this ruling of Rav Yehuda was stated, it was referring to a case where the half-slave betrothed a Jewish woman. Since a slave’s betrothal does not take effect, the result of that betrothal is that the woman is married to only the free half of the half-slave
The Talmud raises an objection: But didn’t the rabbis of Neharde’a say in the name of R' Ya’akov: According to the statement of the one who renders the child of a non-Jew or slave and a Jewish woman unfit to marry into the congregation of Israel, he renders the child unfit even when the mother is an
And both of them derived their opinions only from the halakha of one’s father’s wife, as follows: The one who renders the child unfit holds that just as with regard to one’s father’s wife, one’s betrothal of her does not take effect even after she is widowed or divorced, and so the offspring of su
And the one who renders the child fit holds that the derivation from the halakha of one’s father’s wife is more limited, and it is derived that the offspring is a mamzer only in a case just like one’s father’s wife, in that although his betrothal of her does not take effect, with someone else his b