Profile Rabbi Dovid E. Eidensohn

Monday, November 5, 2018

A Flock of Mamzerim from Invalid Gittin see book Mishpitei Yisroel from Gedolim in Israel and America


A Mamzer or Doubtful Mamzer, Who to Marry
The Book Mishpitei Yisroel describes the teachings of the greatest rabbis of Israel and America in divorce. Forcing a husband to give his wife a GET is generally forbidden, and even causes the woman who remarries without a kosher GET, to produce a child from the second husband who is a mamzer.
Because today few even rabbis are experts in laws of marriage and divorce, many of them, even senior ones, encourage women to force the husband to divorce. These women remarry and have children from the second husband who are born mamzerim. But that is not the whole tragedy. A mamzer may marry a mamzeres. But a doubtful mamzer may not marry a mamzeres, nor may he marry a regular Jewish woman. [1]
See also Shulchan Aruch Even Hoezer 4:20 and the poskim there how a mamzer can marry to have kosher children. There is a question if today such a thing is permitted, which is not our topic here.



[1] Shulchan Aruch Even Hoezer 4:24. See also Baare Haytiv there 4:24 if a shifcho or eved is permitted to marry a mamzer or a doubtful mamzer and the fate of the children of such a marriage.