Question

Hello Rabbi Michi. A week ago I asked you about serving God through emotion. From your words I understood that you claim that connection to God is a metaphysical state (as in Nefesh HaChaim). I’d be glad if you could explain to me why we should assume that connecting to God is such a thing. Why can’t we simply say that connection to God means understanding Him and His desires intellectually, and feeling emotional closeness to Him? And just as, by way of comparison, when I understand a person and feel emotionally close to him, he becomes part of me, so too with the Holy One, blessed be He.
All this, of course, is according to the principle stated by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, that the point of connecting to Him is that I should have a share in the good, and then He will have the possibility to bestow good. Or do you disagree with that? And if so, why?