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Levirate Marriage

Exegetical Approaches

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Preserve Familial Inheritance

The institution is meant to ensure that the deceased's estate stays in the hands of the family.

Perpetuate the Name of the Dead

Levirate marriage serves to preserve the name of the deceased through the child born of the new union.

Sources:Josephus #1, Ibn EzraDevarim 25:5-19About R. Avraham ibn Ezra,

Reincarnation