-
religious law, a
mamzer (Hebrew: ממזר, lit., "estranged person";
plural mamzerim) is a
person who is born as the
result of
certain forbidden relationships...
- the
rabbinic law on divorce,
there is a
strong presumption that they are
mamzerim (adulterine ****s), so that
marriage with them is
forbidden even if...
- may not, for example,
marry a Jew by birth. However, a
Natin may
marry Mamzerim and Gerim. The men of Gibeon, with
Melatiah the
Gibeonite at
their head...
-
affair involving a
married Jewish woman are
considered mamzerim and
cannot marry non-
mamzerim. In the
western world as a whole, two
thirds of divorces...
- the
children conceived by the new
couple are
considered illegitimate, or
mamzerim,
which severely disables the child's
ability to parti****te in
Jewish life...
-
Without this consent, any ****ure
offspring of the wife
would be
considered mamzerim (****s/impure). If the cir****stances
truly warrant a divorce, and the...
- who was
willingly impregnated by her father-in-law), were not
counted as
mamzerim (cf.
Genesis 38:24-30).
Halakhah also
contains rules related to protecting...
-
declared mamzerim, and
therefore ineligible for
marriage to an
Israelite by a Beit Din in
Petah Tikva. The
Langer children had been
designated as
mamzerim because...
- cir****stances: her
children from her
second marriage will be
considered mamzerim, and she will be
forced to
divorce both her
first and
second husbands,...
- (people of
whose paternity is unknown) and ****ufim (foundlings) but
beneath mamzerim, the
offspring of
illicit unions, and were
prohibited from
marrying Israellites...
