Moshe Rabbeinu says: "I cannot carry this alone."

He's too tough to break down. Something we've all said about someone or even ourselves. There's a moment in this week's parsha that stopped me completely the first time I really read it. >> [music] >> Not one of the miracles, not the menorah, not the cloud in the desert. It's the moment Moshe Rabbeinu breaks [music] down. The greatest leader in the history of Klal Yisrael turns to Hashem and says words that I want [music] every single person watching this to hear. Why have you placed this burden of the entire nation upon me? Did I [music] give birth to them? I cannot carry this entire people alone. It is too heavy for me. I cannot carry this alone. It is too heavy for me. [music] Moshe Rabbeinu said that out loud to Hashem. Now, what does Hashem do? He [music] doesn't rebuke him. He doesn't tell him to be stronger. He immediately says, "Gather the 70 elders. I will share the burden with them. You will never [music] have to carry this alone." In 2018, Kevin Love, one of the best basketball players in the world, collapsed [music] on the court in the middle of an NBA game in front of 20,000 people. [music] Not physically. He had a full-on panic attack. He ran to the locker room and couldn't breathe. And then he did something [music] that nobody expected from a professional athlete. He wrote about it publicly. And he said, "I didn't think it was okay for one man to ask for help. I thought I had to carry everything alone. I thought that was what strength looked like." He then said something I haven't been able to forget. [music] He said, "Everyone is going through something that we can't see. Everyone is going through something that we can't see." That is the message of the parsha. Moshe couldn't see what the people were carrying. Others couldn't see what Moshe was carrying until Moshe said it out loud. And Kevin Love's teammates had no idea what he was going through until he wrote those words. If Moshe Rabbeinu can look at Hashem and say, "This is too heavy for me. I cannot carry this alone." then so can you. Don't be ashamed. This is turning the [music] wheel because the road to healing isn't straight. But no one should have to travel it alone. Wishing you a wonderful [music] Shabbos.