DEUT49 On [this] verse: "But you who cleave to Hashem your God are alive every one of you this day," the Gemara (Kethuvoth 112a) comments: "Is it really possible to cleave to the Shechinah?--Is it not written (Ibid. v. 24): 'Hashem your God is a devouring fire?' The meaning is: Whoever gives his daughter in marriage to a Talmid Chacham and whoever engages in business with a Talmid Chacham (he invests the latter's money so that the scholar receives an income and is free to occupy himself with Torah study [Rashi], and whoever gives the benefit of his property to a Talmid Chacham is regarded by Scripture as if 'he cleaves to the Shechinah.'"