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Hasagot HaRa'avad on Mishneh Torah, Foreign Worship and Customs of the Nations Chapter 2

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ישראל שעבד וכו' לכל דבריו. א"א אף על פי כן אסור לאבד ממונו בידים מידי דהוה אמסור אבל אם נשא עובדת כוכבים ואין לו זרע כשר ודאי מותר לאבדו בידים או ליטלו מעצמו:

Mishnah Torah, Yod ha-hazakah, trans. by Simon Glazer, 1927

An Israelite who worshiped etc. Nevertheless it is forbidden to destroy his property wantonly. Let him not be considered worse than an informer. But if he married an idolatrous woman and has no proper seed, it certainly is permitted to destroy it wantonly, or confiscate it.¹

footnotes: ¹ Maimonides concerns himself with decisions based upon opinions quoted in the Gemara. No such dividing line as mentioned by RABD. is found in the Gemara. C. G.

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