Hispa'alus

The more I observe the world the more I notice how fickle and impressionable people are.

In Mussar there's this idea called Hispa'alus.
Which is a little difficult to translate but means Impressionable or even Gullible...

This idea manifests itself in many ways.
One way is self-discipline.
To stay fully focused on the practical and not to be distracted by impressionable events that are irrelevent.
Not to be a prisoner of reaction.
In the Yeshiva of Kelm if there was a loud sudden noise in the back of the Beis Hamidrash no one turned around to look.
That would be a breach of this idea.
Today we've become such a curious breed.

But another manifestation of this idea is how truth is so colored by Impressions.
Example:
The cosmos are sooo vast and the center of the universe is so far from earth...we must therefore be irrelevent...and not as important as we once thought we were.

Would Christianity be taken seriously, debated and thought about if it were a small Middle Eastern sect numbering a few million?

Yet, the world spins on as it always has..

Spinning it's web of truths on the loom of impressionability.