## Kiddushin Daf 75b

###### Kiddushin 75b:1
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וְרַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל סָבַר לַהּ כְּרַבִּי עֲקִיבָא. רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר סָבַר לַהּ כְּרַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל, דְּאָמַר: כּוּתִים גֵּירֵי אֲרָיוֹת הֵם. וְרַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל סָבַר לַהּ כְּרַבִּי עֲקִיבָא, דְּאָמַר: נׇכְרִי וְעֶבֶד הַבָּא עַל בַּת יִשְׂרָאֵל – הַוָּלָד מַמְזֵר.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**and Rabbi Yishmael holds in accordance with** the opinion of **Rabbi Akiva** concerning a different *halakha*. The Gemara clarifies: **Rabbi Elazar holds in accordance with** the opinion of **Rabbi Yishmael, who says: Samaritans are lion converts,** i.e., they converted out of fear of being attacked by lions for worshipping idols in Eretz Yisrael. They were never converts for the sake of Heaven, but remained gentiles according to *halakha*. **And Rabbi Yishmael holds in accordance with** the opinion of **Rabbi Akiva, who says:** In the case of **a gentile or** a Canaanite **slave who engaged in sexual intercourse with a Jewish woman, the offspring is a *mamzer*.** Since over the generations Jews assimilated with Samaritans, who have the status of gentiles, the descendants of those Jews who married Samaritans have the status of uncertain *mamzerim*.


###### Kiddushin 75b:2
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וּמִי סָבַר לָהּ רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל כְּרַבִּי עֲקִיבָא? וְהָאָמַר רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן מִשּׁוּם רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל: מִנַּיִן לְנׇכְרִי וְעֶבֶד שֶׁבָּאוּ עַל הַכֹּהֶנֶת וְעַל הַלְוִיָּה וְעַל בַּת יִשְׂרָאֵל שֶׁפְּסָלוּהָ? שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: ״וּבַת כֹּהֵן כִּי תִהְיֶה אַלְמָנָה וּגְרוּשָׁה וְזֶרַע אֵין לָהּ״

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara asks: **But does Rabbi Yishmael hold in accordance with** the opinion of **Rabbi Akiva** in this matter? **But doesn’t Rabbi Yoḥanan say in the name of Rabbi Yishmael: From where** is it derived with regard to **a gentile or** a Canaanite **slave who engaged in sexual intercourse with the daughter of a priest, or** with **the daughter of a Levite, or** with **the daughter of an Israelite, that they have disqualified her** from marrying a priest? It is **as it is stated: “But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child,** and is returned to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread” (Leviticus 22:13).


###### Kiddushin 75b:3
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– מִי שֶׁיֵּשׁ לוֹ אַלְמְנוּת וְגֵרוּשִׁין, יָצָא נׇכְרִי וְעֶבֶד שֶׁאֵין לוֹ אַלְמְנוּת וְגֵרוּשִׁין.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
He explains: It is only if she was married to **one who has** the *halakhot* of **widowhood and divorce,** meaning a Jew, that she can return to her father’s house and partake of *teruma*. This serves to **exclude a gentile or** a Canaanite **slave, who do not have** the *halakhot* of **widowhood and divorce;** if the daughter of a priest engages in intercourse with such a man, she may no longer partake of *teruma*.


###### Kiddushin 75b:4
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וְאִי סָלְקָא דַּעְתָּךְ סָבַר לַהּ כְּרַבִּי עֲקִיבָא, הַשְׁתָּא מַמְזֵר הָוֵי, מִיפְסַל בְּבִיאָתוֹ מִיבַּעְיָא?!

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**And if it enters your mind** that Rabbi Yishmael **holds in accordance with** the opinion of **Rabbi Akiva** that the offspring of a Jewish woman and a gentile or a slave is a *mamzer*, what need is there for this proof? **Now** that he holds that the offspring from a gentile **is a *mamzer*, is** it **necessary** to state **that** the gentile or slave **disqualifies** her from marrying a priest **by engaging in intercourse** with her?


###### Kiddushin 75b:5
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אֶלָּא, רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר סָבַר לַהּ כְּרַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל, דְּאָמַר: כּוּתִים גֵּירֵי אֲרָיוֹת. וְסָבַר לַהּ כְּרַבִּי עֲקִיבָא דְּאָמַר: נׇכְרִי וְעֶבֶד הַבָּא עַל בַּת יִשְׂרָאֵל הַוָּלָד מַמְזֵר.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rather,** the Gemara explains as follows: **Rabbi Elazar holds in accordance with** the opinion of **Rabbi Yishmael, who says: Samaritans are lion converts, and** Rabbi Elazar himself also **holds in accordance with** the opinion of **Rabbi Akiva, who says:** If **a gentile or** a Canaanite **slave engaged in sexual intercourse with a Jewish woman, the offspring is a *mamzer*.**


###### Kiddushin 75b:6
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וּמִי סָבַר לַהּ רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר כְּרַבִּי עֲקִיבָא? וְהָאָמַר רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר: אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁנֶּחְלְקוּ בֵּית שַׁמַּאי וּבֵית הִילֵּל בְּצָרוֹת מוֹדִים שֶׁאֵין מַמְזֵר אֶלָּא מִמִּי שֶׁאִיסּוּרוֹ אִיסּוּר עֶרְוָה וְעָנוּשׁ כָּרֵת!

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara asks: **But does Rabbi Elazar hold in accordance with** the opinion of **Rabbi Akiva? But doesn’t Rabbi Elazar say: Although Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel disagreed with regard to** the *halakha* of **rival wives,** as to whether the rival wife of a *yevama* who is a forbidden relative of the *yavam* is obligated in or exempt from levirate marriage, they **concede that a *mamzer* is only** the offspring born **from one whose prohibition is a prohibition of forbidden relatives and punishable by *karet*.** Since engaging in intercourse with a gentile or a Canaanite slave is not punishable by *karet*, Rabbi Elazar would agree that the child of such a union is not a *mamzer*.


###### Kiddushin 75b:7
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אֶלָּא, כִּי אֲתָא רָבִין אָמַר רַבִּי חִיָּיא בַּר אַבָּא אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן, וְאָמְרִי לַהּ אָמַר רַבִּי אַבָּא בַּר זַבְדָּא אָמַר רַבִּי חֲנִינָא, וְאָמְרִי לָהּ אָמַר רַבִּי יַעֲקֹב בַּר אִידֵּי אָמַר רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בֶּן לֵוִי: שָׁלֹשׁ מַחְלוֹקוֹת בַּדָּבָר.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rather, when Rabin came** from Eretz Yisrael to Babylonia, he reported that **Rabbi Ḥiyya bar Abba says** that **Rabbi Yoḥanan says, and some say** that it was **Rabbi Abba bar Zavda** who **says** that **Rabbi Ḥanina says and some say** it was **Rabbi Ya’akov bar Idi** who **says** that **Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi says:** There are **three divisions** of opinions **with regard to the matter.**


###### Kiddushin 75b:8
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רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל סָבַר: כּוּתִים גֵּירֵי אֲרָיוֹת הֵן, וְכֹהֲנִים שֶׁנִּטְמְעוּ בָּהֶם – כֹּהֲנִים פְּסוּלִים הָיוּ, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: ״וְיַעֲשׂוּ לָהֶם מִקְצוֹתָם כֹּהֲנֵי בָמוֹת״, וְאָמַר רַבָּה בַּר בַּר חָנָה אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן: מִן הַקּוֹצִים שֶׁבָּעָם. וּמִשּׁוּם הָכִי פַּסְלִינְהוּ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rabbi Yishmael holds** that **Samaritans are lion converts, and the priests who assimilated among them were unfit priests, as it is stated: “And made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places”** (II Kings 17:32). **And Rabba bar bar Ḥana says** that **Rabbi Yoḥanan says:** What is the meaning of “from among themselves”? **From the thorns that are among the** Jewish **people,** meaning those of flawed lineage. **And** it was **due to that** reason that the Sages **disqualified them,** not due to the Samaritans themselves, who are gentiles, but due to the Jews of flawed lineage who are assimilated among them. When a Samaritan seeks to marry another Samaritan, it is possible that one of them is a Jew of flawed lineage.


###### Kiddushin 75b:9
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וְרַבִּי עֲקִיבָא סָבַר: כּוּתִים גֵּירֵי אֱמֶת הֵן, וְכֹהֲנִים שֶׁנִּטְמְעוּ בָּהֶן – כֹּהֲנִים כְּשֵׁרִים הָיוּ, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: ״וְיַעֲשׂוּ לָהֶם מִקְצוֹתָם כֹּהֲנֵי בָמוֹת״, וְאָמַר רַבָּה בַּר בַּר חָנָה אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן: מִן הַבְּחִירִים שֶׁבָּעָם. וְאֶלָּא מִפְּנֵי מָה אֲסָרוּם – מִפְּנֵי שֶׁהָיוּ מְיַיבְּמִים אֶת הָאֲרוּסוֹת

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**And Rabbi Akiva holds: Samaritans are true converts, and the priests who assimilated among them were fit priests, as it is stated: “And made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places”** (II Kings 17:32). **And Rabba bar bar Ḥana says** that **Rabbi Yoḥanan says:** “From among themselves” means **from the chosen ones,** the upper echelon **of the** Jewish **people. And for what** reason **did** the Sages **prohibit them** from entering into the congregation if there is no problem with regard to their conversion or with regard to the Jews who assimilated among them? It is **because** they did not act in accordance with the *halakha*, as **they would perform levirate marriage with betrothed women.** They would perform the mitzva of levirate marriage only with one who was widowed from a betrothal,