Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Halakhah for Kiddushin 147:15

אמר רב יהודה

Shall we say, to certain with doubtful - but since the last clause states: R'ELEAZAR SAID: CERTAIN [UNFITS] ARE PERMITTED [TO INTERMARRY] WITH CERTAIN [UNFITS]; DOUBTFUL WITH CERTAIN, OR DOUBTFUL WITH DOUBTFUL, ARE FORBIDDEN, this proves that R'Judah does not hold thus. And should you answer: R'JUDAH FORBIDS IT refers to [the marriage of] a proselyte and a mamzereth, is it then taught, a proselyte with a mamzereth: ALL ARE FORBIDDEN TO ENTER INTO THE ASSEMBLY is taught!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 72a. And this does not include a proselyte.');"><sup>21</sup></span> - Said Rab Judah,

Sefer HaChinukh

And the father is believed [when] he says, "This is my son, my first-born" (Kiddushin 74a), or to say, "This is my son" or "This is not my son." As it is written (Deuteronomy 21:17), "But the first-born etc. shall he recognize" - and they, may their memory be blessed, expounded (Bava Batra 127b), "shall make him recognized by others." And even if someone was presumed to be Reuven's son, if Reuven says that he is not his son, he is believed, and he does not bequeath to him. And Rambam (Mishneh Torah, Laws of Inheritances 4:2), may his memory be blessed, wrote, "It seems to me that even if the son had sons, [such that] even though [the father] is not believed about him to say he is not his son, for the purposes of family relationships, and he is not presumed to be a mamzer on his word, he is believed for the purposes of inheritance and he will not inherit him.
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