Commentaire sur Kiddouchine 3:13
רַבִּי טַרְפוֹן אוֹמֵר, יְכוֹלִין מַמְזֵרִים לִטַּהֵר. כֵּיצַד. מַמְזֵר שֶׁנָּשָׂא שִׁפְחָה, הַוָּלָד עֶבֶד. שִׁחְרְרוֹ, נִמְצָא הַבֵּן בֶּן חוֹרִין. רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, הֲרֵי זֶה עֶבֶד מַמְזֵר:
R. Tarfon dit: Mamzerim peut se nettoyer. Comment? Si un mamzer épouse une esclave, l'enfant est un esclave. S'il (son père) le libère, le fils est un homme affranchi, (qui peut épouser un Israélite). [Même ab initio, un mamzer peut épouser une esclave pour nettoyer ses enfants.] R. Eliezer dit: Il (le fils) est un mamzer-bondman. [la halakha est conforme à R. Tarfon. Et R. Tarfon admet que si un esclave épouse un mamzereth, l'enfant est un mamzer, car un esclave n'a pas de pedigree.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Kiddushin
ממזר שנשא שפחה – and even ab initio, a Mamzer can marry a maid-servant in order to purify his children. And the Halakah is according to Rabbi Tarfon. But Rabbi Tarfon admits that a slave who married a Mamzeret, the child is a Mamzer, for the slave has no pedigree
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English Explanation of Mishnah Kiddushin
Introduction
This mishnah continues to discuss personal status and lineage. The specific issue is whether or not a mamzer can purify his lineage.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Kiddushin
Rabbi Tarfon says: mamzerim can be purified. How is this so? If a mamzer marries a slave woman, her son is a slave; if he frees him, it is found that the son is a free man. Rabbi Eliezer says: behold, he is a slave mamzer. Rabbi Tarfon uses the rules in the previous mishnah to find a means by which a mamzer can have a child that is not a mamzer. A mamzer is allowed to marry a slave woman, even though a non-mamzer cannot. If the mamzer owns the slave woman, then he owns the child. If he frees the child the child loses his mamzer status and becomes a regular Israelite. Rabbi Eliezer, however, holds that such a “trick” does not work. The status of the child is “slave mamzer.” When his father/master frees him, he is no longer a slave but he is still a mamzer.
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