All this was to explain the metaphor of the Rivash, that we should not come to understand that the Sephirot are like separate entities to whom G-d commands. Rather, it's more appropriate to describe the Sephirot as different garments.
In the Temple, the priests would wear a uniform. But there were different uniforms. There were uniforms for the service of the Offerings and there were other garments for cleaning the ashes off the altar, for instance. There were Uniforms type A, and type B. The priests would wear long white garments and if the garments were ripped or got dirty, they would have to change them because a dirty or ripped uniform is inappropriate for Temple service.
A surgeon is supposed to wear clean garments at least when it comes to performing a surgery. Usually, these are also not perfectly clean but if I see the surgeon on the street in his street clothes, I'm going to prefer that he perform the surgery in his surgeon's clothes.
Similarly, in prayer we refer to G-d by different vowelizations that are like different garments in which He garments Himself. Different garments are appropriate for different requests.
(The text in italics are the words of Derech Mitzvosecha by the third
Lubavitcher Rebbe, the Tzemach Tzedek. The bolded words are Rabbi Adin
Steinsaltz's commentary as heard on his shiurim on hashefa.co.il. The
rest is my commentary. All rights reserved to Rabbi Steinsaltz)
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