Obviously, her lineage is going to be okay as well. Masechet (tractate) Kiddushin, perek (chapter) dalet (four), Mishnah yud alef (eleven). The Mishnah says, “A man went overseas, and he went single. He wasn’t married. And then he returned later on, and he had with him a wife and children. And he said, ‘This is a woman that I married overseas, and these are the children with her.’”
Mevi re'aya al ha'isha, ve'ein tzarich lehavi re'aya al ha'banim (He brings proof regarding the woman and need not bring proof regarding the children). He has to bring proof regarding his wife. He has to show that she’s a qualified woman, that he married her, and that she’s kosher enough to enter the Jewish people. And once he does that, we can make the assumption that the children are okay. Once it’s proven that the woman is okay, we can assume that the children are qualified, as long as, again, like the last Mishnah, we’re talking about children who are wrapped around their mother and are spending a lot of time with their mother. So it’s obviously a connection between the two of them.
A man went overseas, and he came back just with children, and he said that he had a wife and that she gave him children. They had children together. And he says, “But she died, and I’m coming back now just with our children.” He has to bring proof about his wife, and he also has to bring proof about the children. In the last Mishnah, we said that once you establish the wife’s validity, you could assume that the children are also okay. But here it’s going to be different, because we don’t have that link between the wife and the children. You have to establish both of them independently. You have to bring proof that the wife was kosher enough to marry into the Jewish people, and then you also have to bring proof about the children and show how they’re actually hers. You don’t have them clinging to her and wrapped around her now, so therefore you have to actually bring proof that the children are connected to the woman in question. Thank you.