<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div>Does this mitzvah apply to a father who has enough wealth that his child will never need to work?</div><div>In other words, is the reason for the mitzvah so that the child may live, or is the reason so that the child (who is not a lamdan, let’s say for the sake of discussion) will have something meaningful to do?</div></body></html>