Musar for Sotah 41:2

And in our times, the obligation is even greater. For when one makes a match with a Torah scholar there sprout from him afterwards generations of fearers of the L-rd and fulfillers of His mitzvoth. Not so, if he does the opposite. Who knows what will become of his descendants? As we see before our eyes, in our many sins, in these times, that whoever is richer [than his neighbor] finds it more difficult to rescue himself from the wiles and stratagems of the yetzer. Therefore, one must see to it to bring himself closer to Torah and to those who study it; and "the Torah defends and saves," as Chazal have said (Sotah 21a).