41. What Impresses You?

Rav Shlomo Katz guides us into a piercing question from the Piaseczner Rebbe: What actually impresses you? In a world that exalts brilliance, spectacle, and flash, this teaching unveils the subtle poison of the nachash: our reflex to admire talent over truth, charisma over clarity, cleverness over soul.This shiur invites us back to a deeper kind of knowing—temimus, wholeheartedness, the quiet certainty that doesn't need applause or labels. Just as the stomach functions without fanfare, our neshama knows how to live in truth when we stop worshipping our intellect and start trusting our inner voice.