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A: The JPS Tanakh defines a mamzer as:
Q: What is the Biblical meaning of “mamzer” ? Will the laws governing the mamzer not being able to marry e...
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A: The JPS Tanakh defines a mamzer as:
Q: What is the Biblical meaning of “mamzer” ? Will the laws governing the mamzer not being able to marry ever change?
“No one misbegotten shall be admitted into the congregation of the Lord; none of his descendants, even in the tenth generation, shall be admitted into the congregation of the Lord.”
It is interesting that both the Septuagint and the Vulgate translate mamzer “as a son of a prostitute.”
Over a century ago Abraham Geiger suggested that the meaning of mamzer comes from ma’am zar ד “belonging to a foreign people.” Although the etymology
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