Beraisa: If a gentile or a slave had relations with a Jewess, the child is a Mamzer.

R. Shimon ben Yehudah citing R. Shimon: The child is not a Mamzer, as a Mamzer only comes from a woman who is prohibited to him as an Ervah and that they would incur Kares for the transgression.

They both expound it from the same pasuk (Devarim 23, 1), "A man shall not take his father's wife etc.'' R. Meir expounded - just as kidushin does not take effect on his father's wife and the child is a Mamzer, so too any other case where kidushin cannot take effect, the child would be a Mamzer.

R. Shimon ben Yehudah: A person is not able to betroth his father's wife but others could (if his father divorced her or died) and therefore (the stepson's) child (with her) is a Mamzer; this excludes a gentile or slave who cannot betroth anyone.

Question (R. Shmuel bar Aba against R. Meir): If a yevamah was unfaithful (without first performing chalitzah), nobody can betroth her but the child is not a Mamzer?!

R. Yanai citing Rebbi: If a gentile or a slave had relations with a Jewess, the child is a Mamzer.

R. Yochanan and R. Shimon ben Lakish: The child is a Mamzer.

R. Yaakov bar Acha/R. Shimon bar Aba/ R. Yehoshua ben Levi citing R. Gamliel b'Rebbi: The child is not Kasher nor Pasul; it is blemished (that if it is a girl, she cannot marry a Kohen).

R. Yonasan travelled with R. Yudah Nesiyah to Chamas Gader. He ruled there that the child is Kasher.

R. Zeira: As each new generation comes, this child becomes more important. Rebbi ruled that the child is blemished but his grandson ruled that the child is Kasher.

In the name of all of the Rabbis, R. Ba bar Zavda instructed that the child is Kasher.

R. Baybei told R. Zeira in the name of R. Chanina that the child is Kasher.

R. Zeira: We cannot learn from something that is not clear.

R. Chizkiyah: I know the beginning and the end (i.e. the entire story) there...

R. Chama bar Chanina was travelling to Chamas Gader. His father came to him and said, "Be aware that there are a number of Pesulim there and you should not make a ruling for them on their status''. Even though R. Shimon ben Yehudah cited from R. Shimon ben Yochai that if a gentile or a slave had relations with a Jewess, the child is Kasher; he agrees that if the child is a girl, she may not marry a Kohen...

...and even though R. Yehoshua said that if a person had relations with his sister, the child is Kasher, but he agrees that if it is a girl, she may not marry a Kohen.''

A man once came in front of Rav and asked him, "Since I was born from a Jewish mother and an Aramean father, am I Kasher to marry a regular Jew?'' Rav answered that he is Kasher. Rav Chama bar Guriya said, "As long as you have strength in your legs, run and marry a woman, before Shmuel will come and declare you to be Pasul.''

Even though Rav said that if a gentile or a slave who had relations with a Jewess, the child is Kasher, he agrees that if the child is a girl, she may not marry a Kohen.

R. Yaakov bar Acha: When the first tana taught (above in (a)) that a if a slave had relations with a Jewess, the child is a Mamzer, he said this even if she was not married at the time; and when R. Shimon taught that the child is Kasher, he said this even if she was married at the time.

R. Tanchum bar Papa sent two cases from Alexandria to R. Yosi to hear his rulings. In one case, a slave had relations with a single woman and in another case a slave had relations with a married woman. Concerning the married woman, R. Yosi wrote the pasuk, "A Mamzer should not enter the congregation of Hashem''. Concerning the single woman, R. Yosi replied. "Since we are warned not to disqualify a Kasher woman, we will not declare this woman and her children Pasul''.

R. Yosi to R. Mana: Take my letter and sign that you agree with my ruling (for the single woman). R. Mana signed it.

R. Yosi to R. Berachyah: Take my letter and sign that you agree with my ruling (for the single woman). R. Berachyah did not wish to sign it.

After they got up to leave, R. Mana said to R. Berachyah, "Why didn't you sign it?'' R. Berachyah replied, "Didn't R. Yaakov bar Acha say when the first tana taught that the child is a Mamzer, he said this even if she was not married at the time; and when R. Shimon taught that the child is Kasher, he said this even if she was married at the time?!''

R. Mana replied: Baruch Hash-m that I did not hear this teaching, otherwise I would not have signed and people would have said that a student is disagreeing with his Rav!

Mar Ukvan: We learned that the first tana taught that the child is a Mamzer if the woman was single and R. Shimon taught that the child is Kasher if the woman was single. However, we do not have a teaching about a married woman.

In the evening, R. Berachyah wished to sign it. R. Yosi told him that the letter was no longer there.

R. Chiya bar Ba went to Tzur and came to R. Yochanan. R. Yochanan asked him if any Halachic cases had come before him.

R. Chiya bar Ba: Yes, the case of a convert who was circumcised but did not immerse in a Mikveh. R. Yochanan asked him, "Why did you not announce that he is still a gentile and his children (with a Jewish mother) are Mamzerim?!''

R. Chama to R. Yochanan: It is because R. Yehoshua ben Levi was lenient. R. Yochanan replied that it was good that you were not stringent since it occurred in the area under R. Yehoshua ben Levi's authority.

Question: The opinion of R. Yehoshua ben Levi has been switched - there (earlier), R. Yaakov bar Acha/R. Shimon bar Ba/ R. Yehoshua ben Levi citing Rabban Gamliel b'Rebbi said that the child is neither Kasher not Pasul but rather, it is blemished (meaning that if it is a daughter, she may not marry a Kohen). Here, you said that he was lenient (to rule it to be completely Kasher)...as the Beraisa teaches - If a convert was circumcised but did not immerse or vice-versa, R. Eliezer says that the deciding factor is circumcision. R. Yehoshua said that without immersion, he is also not considered a convert...?

Answer: Rather, R. Yehoshua ben Levi follows the teaching of Bar Kafra in the Beraisa...

Beraisa - Bar Kafra: If a convert was circumcised but did not immerse, he is a Kasher Jew - since a person who had a seminal emission must immerse, this convert must surely have immersed at some point after his circumcision.

Question: How could a more lenient immersion also be valid as a more stringent immersion?

Answer (R. Yosi bei R. Bun): Since they are both done for the sake of accepting the sanctity of Yisrael, it is valid.

The Mishnah taught: (Any relationship where kidushin does not take effect, neither for him nor for any man, the child follows the status of the mother.) What are these? The child of a slave woman (or a gentile woman).

Mishnah in Maseches Yevamos: (Any child exempts his father's wife from yibum if his father died) except for a child through a slave woman or a gentile...

A slave woman - as the pasuk states (concerning a Jewish slave who was given by his master a slave woman to marry) in (Shemos 21, 4), "...the woman and her children will belong to her master'' (but the child will not be considered a child of his biological father).

A gentile - R. Yochanan citing R. Shimon bar Yochai- the pasuk states (Devarim 7, 3), "You shall not marry them - you shall not give your daughter to his son'' and the next pasuk states, "as he will cause your child to turn away from after me'' - your son from a Jewess is called your son but your son from a gentile woman is not called your son, but rather, he is called her son.

Yaakov of Kfar Giboraya went to Tzur. They asked him, "On Shabbos, may one circumcise a boy born to an Aramean mother?''

He wished to permit it based on the pasuk (Bamidbar 1, 18), "...and they established their lineage according to their families, according to their fathers' households''.

R. Chagai heard of this and he said, "He should come and receive lashes for what he said!'' Yaakov said, "From where did you learn that I should receive lashes?'' R. Chagai replied, "From the pasuk (Ezra 10, 3), 'And now, let us make a covenant to send away all gentile women and those born from them etc.'"

Question (Yaakov): Will you give lashes to someone who transgressed a pasuk in Kesuvim?

R. Chagai: You must follow the law.

Yaakov: So do you learn it from this pasuk or from the Torah itself?

R. Chagai: From the teaching (earlier 2) (b) 2.) of R.Yochanan citing R. Shimon ben Yochai - "You shall not marry them etc.''

Yaakov: Give the lashes - it is better to receive lashes than to cause them to violate Shabbos.