Question: It is written that a person should sell everything he owns and marry a daughter of a sage. Why must one marry the daughter of a wise man?

Answer: The “wise man” or “sage” is the Creator. One who studies His wisdom is called a “disciple of the sage.” The vessel, the desire for this, is called the “daughter of the wise disciple.”

We have a desire to receive. In its corrected sate it is called “male” and “woman” in the uncorrected form. There are various designations, but by marrying the daughter of a wise disciple, i.e., acquiring the desire to receive and correcting it into an intention for the sake of giving, in an effort to become a disciple of the wise, with the help of this desire, a person comes to work for the Creator, to become like the Creator.

Question: What is this special Kli of a wise disciples daughter? After all, every vessel is a desire to receive.

Answer: Indeed, in the end, all desires will turn into proper vessels to the degree they are corrected. However, this is not yet so during the process of correction. During the process of correction, there are many desires that a person must concea; one should not to work with all them, but rather filter out the few that can be brought to an intention for the sake of bestowal, to work for the Creator.

Question: When does it start? Once people come to “religion,” that is, to the right intention?

Answer: Before a person became “religious,” a material desire to receive already formed within them. What I mean is that before a person began to correct himself, he was already walking in the middle line (Daat, Tifferet, and Yesod), yet his desire to receive was aimed at himself with the intention to receive. When he starts working for the sake of givinbestowing, he brings everything in line with this intention and screen, which is called becoming “religious.”

Then a different kind of work begins: a person filters out his desires, selecting the right ones he can work with. Some desires are impossible to work with at all; for example, the stony heart (Lev Ha Even), the prohibitive commandments speak about it.

A person takes the desires he can work with, according to the extent and form it is possible and how they can be combined, and begins to refocus them on the intention for the sake of giving. This is how he builds his middle line.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/12/26, Rabash, “One Should Always Sell Everything He Has and Marry a Wise Disciple’s Daughter”

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