Daily Zohar # 4735 – Vayeshev – Does a Tzadik’s wife require yibbum

Hebrew translation:

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Zohar Vayeshev
Continued from previous DZ
#171
Rabbi Yitzchak said: “Regarding them, and regarding these true tzaddikim, it is written: ‘כֹּה אָמַר ה’ לַסָּרִיסִים אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁמְרוּ אֶת שַׁבְּתוֹתַי’ ‘Thus said Hashem to the eunuchs…’ (Isaiah 56:4). What is written afterward? ‘כֹּה אָמַר ה’ לַסָּרִיסִים אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁמְרוּ אֶת שַׁבְּתוֹתַי וּבָחֲרוּ בַּאֲשֶׁר חָפַצְתִּי וּמַחֲזִיקִים בִּבְרִיתִי’ ‘And I will give them, in My house and within My walls, a monument and a name…’ (Isaiah 56:5). For these individuals have a portion in the World to Come.
Rabbi Yossi said, “This is good and beautiful,” meaning he agreed with him.
#172
Come and see, a complete Tzadik, who possessed all the aforementioned virtues, was perfected as he should be and passed away without children—such a person inherits his place in the World to Come, as stated above. The question arises: Does his wife require yibbum (levirate marriage) or not? If you say she requires yibbum, it seems unnecessary, for he does not need his brother to complete him, as he has already inherited his place in the World to Come.

#173
And he answers: Indeed, it is necessary to perform yibbum (levirate marriage) with his wife, because we do not know if he was complete in his deeds or not. And if his wife undergoes yibbum, it is not in vain, even if he was truly complete. This is because there is a place before the Holy One, Blessed be He, for those who died without children, and whose brothers do not perform yibbum with their wives. For a person who was in this world, died childless, and has no redeemer (relative) in the world—when such a completely righteous man dies, and his wife undergoes yibbum, even though he has already inherited his place in the World to Come and does not need the rectification of yibbum, the man who had no redeemer is completed through this yibbum with the wife of the righteous man. Meanwhile, the Holy One, Blessed be He, prepares a place for the man who has no redeemer, where he will remain until this completely righteous man passes away, and the one without a redeemer will achieve his completion in the World to Come.

Notes:
The discussion examines whether the mitzvah of yibbum applies to a fully righteous person who passed away without children but has already achieved perfection and inherited his share in the World to Come.
The act of yibbum serves both as a spiritual safeguard for the deceased and as a rectification for those who died childless and had no redeemer. This process reflects divine compassion and the interconnectedness of souls in achieving spiritual completion.

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