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- noun Plural form of
mamzer .
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Examples
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Her children - and any of her future offspring - would also be shunned as mamzers, a halakhic term to describe the offspring of adulterous or incestuous relationships.
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Shaked, an emergency-room pediatrician, is free to remarry in a civil court, but an Orthodox rabbi would not perform a marriage for her and any children she birthed would be considered "mamzers," or bastards.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Shaked, an emergency-room pediatrician, is free to remarry in a civil court, but an Orthodox rabbi would not perform a marriage for her and any children she birthed would be considered "mamzers," or bastards.
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