Musar zu Ijow 27:17

Come see what is written in the Zohar in Parashas Beshalach (65a): Rabbi Aba began with the verse: “There is a sickly evil that I have seen beneath the sun” (Koheles 5:12). How dense are people’s hearts because they do not toil in Torah! Is there such a thing as a sickness that is not evil? Rather the concept is this: There is a certain category of destructive agents, Heaven spare us, which sometimes arise from the Female Aspect, from the Great Chasm [Minukba DeTehoma Rabbah]. They come and settle upon a man, subjugating him to them so that no longer has control over his own money. Not only is he unable to give charity to the poor, he does not even have enough control over his wealth to purchase food or clothing befitting his means for himself, his wife and the members of his household. His appearance is lowly and emaciated and he is hungry and thirsty. He is beset by afflictions and dressed in rags. And even though his house is filled with all manner of goodness he derives no pleasure from it, for it has been announced in Heaven that all this goodness is prepared for another. Thus the verse states, “The wicked prepare and the righteous wear” (Iyov 27:17).