https://www.brandeis.edu/hbi/blog/2014/0523-time.html
A mamzer is forbidden to marry someone considered part of the community of Israel. He or she is permitted to marry only another mamzer or a convert, and the offspring are forever considered mamzerim according to Jewish law, even after 10 generations. While the sages gave theoretical priority to a mamzer who was learned in Torah over a high priest who was an ignoramus, the conventional attitude to mamzers is closer to what was expressed by a rabbi who asked me: "Would you let your child play with a mamzer child? Would you let your child sit in school next to a mamzer child?"
The rabbis say that David's first son from Bathsheba was not mamzer
ReplyDeleteIf so, why did he die from the sinful union?
"our Gadol"
ReplyDeletehttps://mishpacha.com/our-gadol/
As a Concerned Parent, I wouldn't want my child playing with a mamzer child.
ReplyDeleteNot because the child is at fault for their condition, rather because of who his parents are.
If a girl's parents had a callous attitude to Halacha, and got married together despite the woman being an Eishes Ish of another man, then their Mamzeres offspring is not a playmate whom I would want my daughter to associate with, since this Mamzeres is likely to be infected with anti-Torah viewpoints and attitudes.