Commentary for Kiddushin 151:2

ורבי עקיבא לטעמיה דאמר יש ממזר מחייבי לאוין

she who sat 'without' shall not marry a stranger; but she who did not sit 'without' may marry a stranger.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Taking ha-huzah as an adjective qualifying wife: the dead man's wife who is without, shall not marry a stranger. A 'wife who is without' is an arusah, who may not live with her husband until nissu'in. [V. Samaritan version of the Bible, a.l. and Montgomery, The Samaritans, p. 185.]');">⁴</span> And R'Akiba follows his view, for he maintained, There is mamzer from those who are subject [only] to negative injunctions.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For actually we reject that interpretation, translating as the E.V., and so even a nesu'ah is interdicted by a negative injunction, and the issue is mamzer. Hence though R. Akiba holds that the Cutheans are true proselytes, yet they contain mamzerim, which precludes intermarriage with them. Hence the interdiction of marriage with them, as explained anon.');">⁵</span> [iii] Some state, because they are not thoroughly versed in the [minute] details of precepts.

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