Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 27:18

וכי תימא קסברי ב"ה דאין ממזר מחייבי כריתות והאמר רבי אלעזר אף על פי שנחלקו ב"ש וב"ה בצרות מודים שאין ממזר אלא ממי שאיסורו איסור ערוה וענוש כרת אלא לאו שמע מינה לא עשו

did act [in accordance with their own view], why did they not refrain? That Beth Shammai did not refrain from marrying women from the families of Beth Hillel may well be justified because such<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The descendants from the marriages with strangers contracted by the rivals who, in accordance with the ruling of Beth Hillel, performed no halizah. ');">²⁹</span> are the children of persons guilty only of the infringement of a negative precept;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even Beth Shammai who require the rivals to perform the halizah regard such marriages as the infringement of a prohibition only ('The wife of the dead shall not be married abroad', Deut. XXV, 5), which does not involve kareth. The children of such marriages are consequently not deemed to be bastards. ');">³⁰</span>

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