A constant fire shall be kindled on the altar; it shall not go out. (Vayikra 6:6)
I heard an eitzah that is a real jewel. We just need to make a habit of it. It is built on three principles: praying, praying a lot, and the power of Torah.
Regarding the power of Torah, it is written:
By the word of Hashem, the heavens were made.
It says in the Zohar concerning this: Hashem looked in the Torah and created the world. He looked in the words יהי אור – “Let there be light” – and created light....
Early Torah sources explain that this is the meaning also of the following verse:
Always, Hashem, Your word stands up in the heavens.
Hashem’s utterance of יהי רקיע – “Let there be a firmament” – is what sustains the heavens at every moment. It keeps them standing up.
Pearls of Wisdom from the Parshah
Along these lines, the Torah’s words ורפא ירפא– “He shall surely heal” – hold within them all the power of healing in the world. The words ודברת בם בביתך בשבתך – “You shall speak in them when you sit in your house” – contain the trait of hasmadah and its power. And so forth.
In light of the above, if a person wishes to daven over a certain matter, he should recite a pasuk that speaks of the matter he needs, saying the pasuk as a plea to Hashem. He will thus have not only Tefilah but also the special Torah power that these holy words contain. He will be utilizing the particular word of Hashem, contained in these words of Torah, that is specifically relevant to the issue. In this way he will attain what he seeks.
This teaching of the Shelah Hakadosh is quoted also in the name of the great Mekubal R. Moshe Cordovero, that if a sinful or vain thought comes into a person’s head, he should recite, with great intensity, the verse from this week’s parshah:
“A constant fire shall be kindled on the altar; it shall not go out,” and he should repeat it again and again.
Based on this, we could say the following. If a person who regularly suffers from undesirable thoughts will set aside a time to recite these words a hundred times a day, or five hundred times, he will be performing a three-fold activity: praying, praying repeatedly, and drawing taharah and kedushah upon himself by means of the words themselves, for this is their inherent quality, as explained above.
If a person keeps this up every day, and recites the pasuk dozens or hundreds of times, and after he grows accustomed to it, he adds more and more, until he eventually comes to recite this verse, this fervent plea, thousands of times, as time goes on he will experience illumination and derive tremendous benefit.
