(The Segulah of Learning Zera Shimshon)
The pasuk says regarding the menora, "And you should make its lamps seven, and he shall kindle its lamps [so that they] shed light towards its face."
Says the Zera Shimshon, the seven lights of the menora correspond to the seventy years of a person's life. These lights are to shine towards the center of the menora; one's years should be lived to nourish his neshama (the center, the face, the 'mouth,' of one's being). The way we live our life, our deeds, provide fuel, light, for our soul to keep our bodies alive. The neshama needs to be illuminated with Torah and mitzvos done with joy/light.
Mitzvos light up our soul, as it says in Koheles Rabba (6:6) "All of a person's toil is for his 'mouth,'" and when we do aveiros we darken our souls. (In Yeshayahu (29:15) it says, "The darkness of their deeds.")
When we serve Hashem with joy and happiness, learn Torah and perform mitzvos, this lights up our neshama and contributes to our life force.
Source: Zera Shimshon Parshas Terumah
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