Commentary for Kiddushin 148:11

שמעון התימני אומר כל שחייבין עליו כרת בידי שמים והלכה כדבריו ר' יהושע אומר כל שחייבין עליו מיתת ב"ד

The first Tanna holds that even a mamzer from a sister is mamzer; while R'Judah holds: from a married woman it is mamzer, but not from a sister.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Mishnah does not refer to a proselyte at all, but to the question whether these two illegitimate children may intermarry. A sister is interdicted on pain of kareth, q.v. Glos; adultery with a married woman is punishable by death. The first Tanna treats the issue of both as mamzer, and he states, those who are forbidden to enter the assembly as mamzerim may intermarry. But R. Judah maintains that only the latter, forbidden on pain of death, is mamzer, but not the former; hence they may not intermarry.');">¹³</span> Then what does he [the Tanna of our Mishnah] inform us?

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