Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Ketubot 222:21

א"ל דלית אחת הניח לי אבא ובצרתי ממנה יום ראשון ג' מאות אשכולות אשכול לגרב יום שני בצרתי ג' מאות אשכולות שתי אשכולות לגרב יום שלישי בצרתי ממנה ג' מאות אשכולות שלש אשכולות לגרב והפקרתי יותר מחציה א"ל אי לאו דאיפגרת הוה עבדא טפי

When he came back, he said to him, “Why were you delayed for three days?” He replied, “My father left me one branch [of a vine] and on the first day I cut from it three hundred clusters [of grapes], each cluster yielding one jug. On the second day I cut three hundred clusters, two of which yielded one jug. On the third day I cut three hundred clusters, three of which yielded one jug, and I made more than half of it ownerless [so the poor could take it].” He said back, “If you had not delayed [from teaching Torah] it would have yielded much more.”

Shemirat HaLashon

And also in the category of supporting Torah scholars is wedding one's daughter to a Torah scholar. As Chazal have said (Kethuvoth 111b), that [if one weds his daughter to a Torah scholar], it is as if he were to cleave to the Shechinah. And, as written in Pesachim 49a: "One should [if necessary] sell everything he has and wed the daughter of a Torah scholar and wed his daughter to a Torah scholar, so that if he dies or is exiled, [at least] his sons will be Torah scholars."
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