QUESTION I heard of a Rav who said that there was a non-Jewish doctor who was able to develop a technique of using his mind to quickly reach a state where he is “unbounded and where everything is one”, and the doctor used this technique to create an “energy flow” which he reached through reaching this state of oneness in his mind, and he claims that he can use it for healing. He also claimed that he has scientific proof that this kind of technique was able to cure cancer in animals. The Rav who discussed this said that the gentile doctor was really accessing “d’veykus” (connection to Hashem), and anything that he was able to reach was because he felt d’veykus.
Now, I was always under the impression that d’veykus is something that only a Jew can experience, such as by reaching the higher levels of the soul, which are called Neshamah, Chayah, and Yechidah. I thought that goyim (gentiles) can only access lower levels of the soul, the Nefesh and the Ruach, and that only a Jew can reach the higher levels of the soul which are able to experience d’veykus with Hashem.
This Rav is saying that all people universally, even goyim, are able to attain all of the highest levels of the soul, and that even goyim can reach d’veykus with Hashem. Can the Rav please explain to me if the goyim also have the levels of Neshamah, Chayah and Yechidah? And are goyim also able to reach a state of d’veykus?
ANSWER The goyim can attain all of these levels, but only on the level called kelipas noga, as is taught in sefer Eitz Chaim and which is explained in the beginning of sefer Tanya. Therefore, the goyim can also reach d’veykus in Hashem, but only by way of this kelipah (shell). From a deeper perspective, there is the Nefesh, Ruach, Neshamah, Chayah, and Yechidah which are on the side of kedushah (holiness), and which also exist in the category of kelipas noga (the intermediate level between holiness and impurity), and which also exist in the side of the “three impure shells” which are totally evil.
