Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 10:3

הָאִשָּׁה שֶׁהָלַךְ בַּעֲלָהּ וּבְנָהּ לִמְדִינַת הַיָּם, וּבָאוּ וְאָמְרוּ לָהּ, מֵת בַּעְלֵךְ וְאַחַר כָּךְ מֵת בְּנֵךְ, וְנִשֵּׂאת, וְאַחַר כָּךְ אָמְרוּ לָהּ, חִלּוּף הָיוּ הַדְּבָרִים, תֵּצֵא, וְהַוָּלָד רִאשׁוֹן וְאַחֲרוֹן מַמְזֵר. אָמְרוּ לָהּ, מֵת בְּנֵךְ וְאַחַר כָּךְ מֵת בַּעְלֵךְ, וְנִתְיַבְּמָה, וְאַחַר כָּךְ אָמְרוּ לָהּ, חִלּוּף הָיוּ הַדְּבָרִים, תֵּצֵא, וְהַוָּלָד רִאשׁוֹן וְאַחֲרוֹן מַמְזֵר. אָמְרוּ לָהּ, מֵת בַּעְלֵךְ, וְנִסֵּת, וְאַחַר כָּךְ אָמְרוּ לָהּ, קַיָּם הָיָה וּמֵת, תֵּצֵא, וְהַוָּלָד רִאשׁוֹן מַמְזֵר, וְהָאַחֲרוֹן אֵינוֹ מַמְזֵר. אָמְרוּ לָהּ, מֵת בַּעְלֵךְ, וְנִתְקַדְּשָׁה, וְאַחַר כָּךְ בָּא בַעְלָהּ, מֻתֶּרֶת לַחֲזֹר לוֹ. אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁנָּתַן לָהּ אַחֲרוֹן גֵּט, לֹא פְסָלָהּ מִן הַכְּהֻנָּה. אֶת זוֹ דָרַשׁ רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן מַתְיָא, וְאִשָּׁה גְּרוּשָׁה מֵאִישָׁהּ (ויקרא כא), וְלֹא מֵאִישׁ שֶׁאֵינוֹ אִישָׁהּ:

If a woman's husband and son went abroad, and they came and said to her: Your husband died, and then your son died, [so that she was not subject to yibum], and she remarried [to a stranger]; and then they said to her: The opposite was the case, she leaves him; and the child, both the former [i.e., before she heard otherwise], and the latter [after she heard otherwise] is a mamzer. This is in accordance with R. Akiva, who says that the issue of a relationship interdicted by negative commandment is a mamzer. But this is not the halachah.] If they said to her: Your son died, and then your husband died, and she were taken in yibum; and then they said to her: The opposite was the case, she leaves, and the child, both the former and the latter, is a mamzer. If they said to her: Your husband died, and she remarried; and they said to her: He was alive (at the time she remarried), and then he died, she leaves him; and the child — the former is a mamzer, and the latter is not a mamzer. If they said to her: Your husband died, and she was betrothed; and then her husband returned, she is permitted to return to him. Even if the latter gave her a get, she is not rendered unfit for the priesthood. R. Elazar b. Matia expounded in this regard (Leviticus 21:7): "And a woman divorced from her husband" (may not marry a Cohein) — and not from one who is not her husband.

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