Mystical Dancing and Handclapping

Through simcha, clapping our hands and dancing on Purim we can become worthy vessels of receiving the Torah anew in two aspects, the revealed and the hidden. The great revelation of light on Purim came about through the tzaddik Mordechai and Queen Esther's intense prayers and teshuva...The kelipah (the external shell hiding Godliness) of Haman the Amalekite is crushed again each year through our dancing and hand-clapping. False pride, idolatry and atheism is also broken. Deep rooted emunah (faith), Holy wisdom, true life and length of days can then be drawn down into the world. The severity of God’s harsh judgements are then sweetened at its source, and all the harsh decrees against the people of Israel are then revoked!

The act of dancing is transformed into a mitzvah (i.e. a vessel to receive Divine blessing) when one drinks kosher wine in a measured fashion for the sake of cleaving to Hashem. Shabbos, Yom Tov, jewish weddings, and other celebratory meals like Purim are ideal times for this Divine service. Feel profound joy knowing that Hashem has handpicked you from all of humanity; let this knowledge awaken true simcha in your heart until it is drawn down all the way to your feet, causing you to get up and dance! Through this exalted dancing one pushes away any external negative spiritual forces that usually gather by the feet, thus sweetening and nullifying any sort of negative judgments from Heaven, and then one merits to receive all the Divine blessings that flow from Above. This enthusiastic, elevated dancing is truly considered a sweet smelling sacrifice to Hashem! 

But one who dances with the excitement of the evil inclination is considered as if he brought a strange foreign sacrifice, and the wine that he drinks is considered intoxicating wine, which draws its sustenance from the external negative spiritual forces. -Likutei Etzot on Joy, 12

May we all be worthy to experience these exalted levels of dancing and drinking wine this Purim!!!