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Happiness can change your first and second nature

ב''ה Happiness has the ability to change your second nature, habits you have formed and other things you do regularly. The reason for this is that happiness is a "giluy hahelem of the neshama" - revelation of the hidden state of the soul. Happiness can also change first nature, essential inbred traits can be overcome by a state of joy (at least for a short while.) Happiness is able to acomplish this because it is a - "romemut of the etzem  hanefesh" a exalting and lifting up of the inner essence of your soul. Mittler Rebbe - Drushei Chatuna Beit - Samach Tesamach harishon

Preparation for a Mitzvah is the garment of the King

ב''ה Preparation for a Mitzvah is the garment of the King "Yevi'u Levush Malchut" - Bring a Royal Garment refers to the preparation for  a mitvzah. This reveals the level of the supernal garment, levush yakar elyon. "Ve'asher nitan keter malchut be'rosho" - and there is a crown of kingship placed on his head refers to when you actually do the mitzvah, a revelation of keter elyon - the supernal crown rests on you. The first level you must reveal through your efforts, therefore its says 'Yavi'u" - you should bring, while the revelation during the doing of the mitzvah is a revelation from above, therefore it is passive "and ... there is placed..." -Mittler Rebbe Sharei Orah Yeviu Levush Malchut

Mordechai's garment as the Kadosh that will be said in front of the tzadikim

ב''ה [Free translation] ..."In the future the malachim - angels will say 'kadosh' - 'holy' in front of the tzadikim - righteous [just as we say in front of Hakadash Baruch hu." (ב''ב ע''ה ב) "This is at first glance a wondrous statement. How can tzadikim be compared to the essence of the divine to say "kadosh" in front of them? However, [the concept is that] it is known that 'kadosh' with a 'vov' is a concept of hamshacha - a small divine flow from the supernal  level of 'kodesh' [without a vov] from the hidden state of the essence to a small revealed state. This is like the concept of "levush malchut" - the garment of king that the king wore and the horse that the king rode upon etc. Refering, on a higher level, to the "levushei yakar d'kdushat ha'atzmut" - 'the garments of honor of the holiness of the essence of the divine' that are placed as garments for

The two yuds

ב''ה The two yuds for Hashem's name refer the 10 mamaros the world is created with and the 10 commandments. Together they are 20 for kof - keter elyon,"Asara, asara ha'kaf"- 10 and 10 for the 'kaf'. These two yuds are also two levels of brit - covenant, hinted to by Yosef, when it says 'Va'yisem' (with two yuds) ba'aron be'mitzrayim.' -Sefer Eishel Avraham