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733:(Jewish marriage contract/certificate) was never found. The rabbi who performed the marriage was contacted, but Rabbi Yosef wrote that his testimony could not be accepted without the ketubah, and in any event required corroboration by two witnesses. Attempts to contact the husband were abandoned after an adversarial conversation with his new, non-Jewish wife. Even if the husband could have been reached, he would only have been one witness, and his testimony could not have been accepted without a second witness. Thus, Rabbi Yosef concluded there was insufficient evidence that a valid prior marriage had ever taken place. Rabbi Yosef then proceeded to establish the possibility that the former husband might be the daughter's father. The mother testified that her former husband occasionally brought 738:
concluded that it was possible that the former husband was the daughter's father, and hence, Jewish law, which very strongly construes all evidence in favour of birth within marriage, had to presume that he was. Thus, Rabbi Yosef concluded that there was insufficient evidence of either a former marriage or that the new husband was the father, and hence, he concluded that there was insufficient evidence of
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status by generally ruling that the child was born within the marriage, despite the existence of evidence to the contrary. This convenient formula sometimes causes difficulties for lovers or subsequent spouses who wish to assert paternity over a child which may be biologically theirs. A 2006 case, in
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among the categories of Israelis which, Professor Shifman believes, should have the right to marry spouses of their choice, and, he argues, current Israeli law interferes with, and denies, this right. Professor Shifman and ACRI advocate ending the religious monopoly over marriage in Israel, and cite
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have come to consider the most logical understanding of the Hebrew to actually refer to a nation of people. Karaites believe that such an understanding fits perfectly into the context of both Deuteronomy 23 and Zechariah 9, and several Medieval rabbinical Jewish sages felt it necessary to
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payments and came for visitation in person, and hence, the two were sometimes at least momentarily alone together. Applying an ancient rule that when a husband and wife are known to be alone together behind a closed door, the law presumes sexual intercourse may well have taken place, Rabbi Yosef
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status may be sufficiently robust as to cover virtually all cases of inquiry in the types of situations a congregation rabbi would be likely to experience. Nonetheless, Orthodox rabbinical authorities hold that while contemporary rabbis have authority to refine procedural rules such as rules of
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from the Orthodox approach, noting that Conservative Judaism regards Biblical law as only the beginning of a relationship rather than a final word, and that the Conservative movement regards it as its role and responsibility to revise Biblical law from time to time when such law conflicts with
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A child born within 12 months of a woman's most recent meeting with her husband is presumed to be legitimate, since Jewish law believes that in rare cases, a pregnancy can last that long. However, if more than 9 months have elapsed, and she is known to have been unfaithful, then the
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status accords in Jewish law, Israeli civil law has taken the position that the paternity of a child born within a marriage cannot legally be challenged in civil courts, in order to avoid creating a body of evidence that might be used to declare the child a
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status is hard to develop and generally does not arise. Typically, it is impossible to prove either that a prior marriage ever existed, or that a child was born of relations outside that marriage. Orthodox rabbis always allow the suspect child the
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in this matter. This usually leads to the conclusion that at the time of a person's birth, their parents were married, or that the person is the child of a man and woman who were married to each other when the child was conceived.
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which a child born eight months and two weeks after a divorce, was declared the former husband's child, rather than the child of the wife's subsequent husband, and this was reported as causing a dilemma for the subsequent couple.
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editors: "But the Vulgate, the LXX, and the authors of the canon law, take the Hebrew mamzer, (Deut xxiii. 2.) for the child of a prostitute; while some interpreters take it for a generic term, which signifies illegitimate
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status as a category in Israeli family law has been criticized. An extensive review and opinion advocating the adoption of civil marriage in Israel, written by Prof. Pinhas Shifman and published in July 2001 by the
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The status of mamzerim could even be relinquished, either by the mamzer marrying a servant or the mamzer becoming a servant themselves, with their status being immediately relinquished upon their release.
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Israeli law tries to prevent the conferring of mamzer status by refusing to allow men other than the husband or recent ex-husband from registering as a child's father without a court order. However,
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status. Rabbi Yosef said, "The ruling therefore must be that there is very great reason to permit this woman to marry and enter the congregation of God, and as it appears to me have I written."
967:, c. 870 – 935) had the nickname "Manzer" or "Manser". As he is known to have been a bastard and reputed to have had a Jewish mother, this nickname is considered to be derived from 291:," Explained by the Rabbis to mean that the bastard cannot marry a son or daughter of Israel) Alternatively, the "congregation of the Lord" can refer to the legislature of ancient Israel 1047:
Hebrew and English lexicon: with an appendix containing the Biblical Aramaic : coded with the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive concordance of the Bible
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The biblical rule against certain people becoming part of the "congregation of the Lord" was interpreted in the Talmud as a prohibition against ordinary Jews
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have the potential to reveal mamzer status by removing the protection of the presumption of paternity on the part of a married woman's actual husband.
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However, many equally prominent rabbinic authorities maintain that only actual physical relations would confer this status on the woman.
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status under any circumstances, rendering the category inoperative. In doing so, the CJLS distinguished the Conservative approach to
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against a man calling another a Mamzer or illegitimate.... See Loewe, 11, note 9026 for the suggestion that the common name among
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Rabbis in the Talmud, and those in the Middle Ages, saw fit to spell out that, aside from in questions of marriage, a
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Although in many historical societies, illegitimacy of birth was a quality which could make a person somewhat of an
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Francis Brown, Samuel Rolles Driver, Charles Augustus Briggs, Edward Robinson, James Strong, Wilhelm Gesenius,
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such people. Although the biblical passage includes in this up to the tenth generation of the descendants of a
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evidence, they do not have the authority to abolish biblically mandated categories or procedures entirely.
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status in a case where the evidence might appear to be clear-cut. The case involved the daughter of an
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rabbi to a husband who subsequently converted to Christianity and refused to participate in a
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ruled that if a married woman is inseminated by sperm from another man, the child is not a
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is the offspring of a biblically forbidden union for which his progenitors are liable to
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should be considered as an ordinary relative for the purpose of inheritance, including
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at the hands of heaven. An exception to this rule is when a Jewish man cohabits with a
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has declared that Conservative Rabbis should not inquire into or accept evidence of
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In Judaism, a person born or descended from certain forbidden sexual relationships
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are thus also the national laws imposed on Jews living in Israel, including
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is applied to the descendants of specific illicit unions. According to the
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Barring "bastards": Israel's marriage blacklist said to break privacy laws
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status as an argument against the use of religious law in marriage cases.
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The social life of the Jews of northern France in the XII-XIV centuries
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and his or her descendants are not allowed to marry an ordinary (non-
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can only be produced by two Jews but the product of a non-Jew and a
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by rabbinical courts, claiming they are an invasion of privacy.
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should be treated as an ordinary Jew. The Talmud insists that a
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The term occurs twice in the Hebrew Bible. The first time is
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as only transmitted through the mother, the child of a male
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status, sufficiently strict that proof of the existence of
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explains the term homiletically as consisting of the words
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interpreting the "congregation of the Lord" as being the
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were not so free; they were neither permitted to marry a
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debate this topic with medieval Karaite Jewish sages.
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meaning "forever". Thus, in traditional Jewish law, a
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This interpretation is not universally shared, with
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Modern 219:(23:2 in non-Hebrew versions). The 141: 116: 1609:"Deuteronomy 23 Gill's Exposition" 896:the existence and difficulties of 503:. However, the child of a female 25: 1354:; et al., eds. (1901–1906). 903:Israeli religious courts resolve 120: 1770:or to grow up without a father?" 1364:. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 1340: 931:announced it would petition the 921:separation of religion and state 436:assisted reproductive technology 793:evolving concepts of morality. 592:is not officially considered a 1049:, Hendrickson Publishers, 2005 41:texts relating to this article 1: 1713:Commentary on Zechariah ix. 6 1376:Shulchan Aruch, "Even haEzer" 994:may have been referred to as 923:, and for the institution of 695:An example is a contemporary 168:Some have explained the word 123:, "estranged person"; plural 1536:– Laws of inheritance – 1:11 1239:Shulchan Aruch Even haEzer 4 1204:כל שחיבין עליו כרת בידי שמים 1099:1837 English edition p. 151 1097:Dictionary of the Holy Bible 935:to bar secret blacklists of 372:There are two categories of 234: 1764:Dayan, Aryeh (2006-09-07). 1598:Talmud, Yavamot 45b Tosefot 1427:, a publication now in the 1183:"Deuteronomy 23 Commentary" 1058:Strong's Concordance: #4464 661:Modern investigations into 438:has complicated the issue. 147: 1886: 1488:Rabbi Ellie Kaplan Spitz, 986:, a 10th-century count of 929:Center for Women's Justice 713:who had been married by a 674:The principal approach in 507:and a non-Jewish man is a 227:as son "of a prostitute" ( 1294:Jakobovits, Yoel (2005). 1203: 295:The other occasion is in 135:(as it is defined by the 1829:"Manser" is derived ..." 1656:Rabbi Daniel S. 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Index

Mamzerim
Halakhic
Torah
Deuteronomy 23:3
Zechariah 9:6
Babylonian Talmud
Yevamot
Kiddushin
Shulchan Aruch
Hebrew Bible
Jewish religious law
Hebrew
forbidden relationships
incest
Bible
illegitimacy
root
Strong's Concordance
heathen
Talmud
Deuteronomy 23:3
Septuagint
Greek
pornes
Vulgate
scorto
Deuteronomy 23:2
Zechariah 9:6
Ashdod
Mishnah

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