There are truths that the mouth cannot say, but the soul still longs to sing.

Rav Shlomo Katz leads us into the Piaseczner Rebbe’s deep understanding of niggun—not just as melody, but as the voice of the neshama when words fall short. We explore how a niggun doesn’t just express joy or pain. It reveals us. It awakens forgotten parts of the soul, uncovers tears we didn’t know we were carrying, and sometimes brings us to the very edge of prophecy.

But not all song is sacred. When voice is divorced from heart, even a holy tune can become hollow. This shiur calls us to return to the gift of niggun as the deepest hisgalus hanefesh—the soul’s unveiling. One tear in a niggun… that’s you meeting you.

If Hashem gave you another breath this morning, what will you do with it?

In this culminating teaching on Chapter 17 of Bnei Machshava Tova, Rav Shlomo Katz brings us into the heart of the Rebbe’s piercing truth: life is not a right. It’s a gift. And with that gift comes a quiet debt, not for our sins, but for our very existence. Every moment, every breath, every interaction is an opportunity to pay that debt by simply being real, awake, and wholehearted.

Through deep Chassidic imagery, fierce honesty, and a call to inner presence, this shiur reminds us that tamimus is not naive. It’s courageous. When we live with awareness that life itself is a matanah, we stop performing, we stop calculating, and we start living with a heart unveiled.

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.

In this piercing teaching on Chapter 17 of Bnei Machshava Tova, Rav Shlomo Katz guides us through the Piaseczner Rebbe’s radical critique of our modern relationship to knowledge. Why is it that the more we “know,” the less we feel? Could it be that the ancient venom of the nachash still pulses through our thinking? How we divide, label, and rationalize our avodah until we no longer trust our heart’s whispers?

This shiur calls us back to a life of temimus. Not simplicity of mind, but wholeheartedness of being. Through laughter, pain, and real-life moments, Rav Shlomo unpacks the danger of knowledge without bitachon, of intellect divorced from inner sincerity. What does it mean to live with daas and still remain pure? The answer lies in shedding the world’s illusions, holding tightly to truth, and learning to trust again—ourselves, our neshamos, and the God who planted them.

What would the Piasetnzer Rebbe feel about iPhones today?

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Did we earn 'life'? Since life itself is a gift, paying off debt is to being nice and doing the right things in the world.

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from the teachings of Reb Klonymus Kalman Shapiro HY'D

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attaching ourselves to becoming wholehearted people

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