And for the sake of those souls, who were created before the world was created, and they have no bodies therefore, in order to arouse mercy over them, they Israel would fulfil this precept of sending the nest.
He said to him: ‘But Father, if so, then in the case of a scholar, who is from the aspect of that thought, of which it is stated:xxviSee Bereishyt Rabbah 1:4 ‘Israel arose in thought to be created’, then the Torah is like a son to the scholar, and thus, why would his wife require levirate marriage, for the sages of the Mishnah made no distinction, between a scholar and other men on this matter?’