Responsa for Yevamot 151:16

מתיב רב יוסף (מלכים א ג, א) ויתחתן שלמה את בת פרעה מלך מצרים גייורי גיירה והא לא קבלו גרים לא בימי דוד ולא בימי שלמה מידי הוא טעמא אלא לשולחן מלכים

should also be forbidden,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To marry a nethinah, as a preventive measure of the Rabbis. ');">³⁹</span> while in fact, we have learned, 'Bastards and nethinim may intermarry with one another'!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Kid. 6. ');">⁴⁰</span> — In fact [this is the explanation:] the Rabbis instituted a preventive measure only in the case of the fit but not in that of the unfit.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Those, e.g., spoken of in Deut. XXIII, 2f. ');">⁴¹</span> Subsequently Raba stated: What I said<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. BaH. That Deut. VII, 3 refers to idolaters only and not to proselytes. ');">⁴²</span> is of no consequence. For while they are still idolaters their marriages are invalid; only when they are converted are their marriages valid.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. VII, 3, must consequently refer to proselytes, the prohibition being due to the Israelite's sanctity. As the nethinah was not forbidden to the disabled Israelite it follows that a disabled man, be he priest or Israelite, loses his sanctity; as at first suggested supra. ');">⁴³</span> R. Joseph raised an objection: And Solomon became allied to Pharaoh King of Egypt by marriage, and took Pharaoh's daughter!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Kings III. 1. The term [H] 'allied … by marriage' implies recognition of validity of marriage. The Talmudic text of the verse seems to represent an abbreviation of M.T. ');">⁴⁴</span> — He caused her to be converted. But, surely, no proselytes were accepted either in the days of David or in the days of Solomon!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra 24b. ');">⁴⁵</span> — Was there any reason for it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the refusal to admit proselytes. ');">⁴⁶</span> but [that the motive of the proselytes might be the benefits] of the royal table?

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