DEUT483 Attach Yourself to a Scholar: According to a biblical positive command, we should attach ourselves to wise men and their disciples in order to learn from their example, as it is written: "You shall hold fast to him" (this verse). But can a human being hold fast to the Shechinah? The sages explained this precept to mean: attach yourself to the wise and the disciples. A man should therefore strive to win a scholar's daughter for a wife, and marry off his daughter to a scholar. He should eat and drink in the company of scholars, do business with them, and associate with them in all respects; for the Torah repeats this precept, emphasizing "holding fast to him" (Deuteronomy 11:22). So, too, our sages recommended and said: "Sit at their feet in the dust, and drink in their words thirstily" (Ethics of the Fathers 1:4) (Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Talmud Torah, 6:2).