Marriage as a Strategy Against the Yeitzer Hara: Chazal say that the Torah is “only speaking in opposition to the yeitzer hara.” Sefer Toldos Yaakov Yosef explains this to mean that the best way to fight the yeitzer hara is to “take her for a wife”, meaning to get married. Once a person is busy running a household and supporting a family, he won’t have time to look for ways to sin or to fritter away his life.