Public Story
Yibbum
The story of a grand-son of a "Yibbum child" "“ it means of a child coming from jewish tradition of levirate marriage "“ in the search of his identity. The first attempt (as first part of the project) to define what is, for him, to be a jewish is by beginning the practice of religion.
Yibbum (hebrew word for levirate marriage) is a type of mariage which obliges the oldest surviving brother of a man who dies childless to marry the widow of his childless deceased brother, with the firstborn child being treated as that of the deceased brother.
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