Limud Torah

with Rav Chaim

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A GER

We Paskin that a Ger could be Yoitze with children that he had while he was still a Goy. The Rambam and Tur say only if the kids also convert. The Bais Shmuel brings Shitos that argue and don't require the children to convert.
 
The Minchas Chinuch says that it's obvious that only if the children were with another Goy. Then, at that moment they were born, the children's pedigree follows their father. Even after the conversion, though they're not considered children anymore, since their pedigree follow the father, he's considered as fathering them and is Yoitze. But if he had the children with a Jewess where their pedigree follows the mother (that they are Jewish) and the father never had any connection with them from birth,  he's not Yoitze.
 
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HALF EVED AND HALF FREE

A man who had a child with a half Shifcha and half free woman (she was owned by partners and one of them freed his half) the child has the same status as the mother and it's also half and half. Therefore the half that he's free is considered his son, so maybe he can be Yoitze with him as a child. On the other hand, since he's only a half child, maybe he's not Yoitze, since he's not a complete child
 
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DEATH OF CHILDREN

If the children die in the lifetime of the father he hadn't fulfilled his Mitzvah. Every moment he needs to have a boy and girl. But if the dead children leave over their own children, then they can take the place of their parent, and the grandfather is Yoitze. The Rambam holds that only if there is  a boy and a girl left, even if the girls is you son's daughter and the boy is your daughter's son. But if the grandchildren are of the same gender, then the grandfather is not Yoitze.
 
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