The Greatest Leader Asked for Help - Why Can’t We?

Oh, it's luck again. Do you ever feel like it's just too much? You're carrying a big burden? You ever looked at someone and had no idea what they were really going through? This week's para says, "How can I alone carry your troubles, your burdens, and your quarrels?" And this question is coming from none other than our greatest leader, Moshe Rabenu. He's not talking just about leadership. He's describing the emotional weight of caring for people in pain. The cry we use the same word aha as we use when we start tishabove. It's the same cry of loneliness of brokenness. And it is this that's still with us today. We hear it in the silence of abuse survivors, in the struggles of those battling addiction, those carrying mental health challenges and in the trauma people carry behind quiet smiles. Too often that pain goes unnoticed or even worse ignored. But Mosher Rabenu gives us the model. He didn't stay silent. He asked for help. He named the pain. He built a system of support. And that's what we have to do especially now in the days leading up to tish when the basdash was destroyed because of senseless hatred. And it will only be rebuilt through radical love. As taught us the highest form of isn't just helping, it's feeling. He says that it's being with someone in their pain. No say carry the burden with you. The deepest kind of suffering is when someone is feeling alone. And the greatest kindness is letting someone know they're not alone. So this shabas, this look around and ask ourselves, who's carrying a burden I haven't noticed? Who needs to hear that they're not alone? Because that's how we rebuild the BA mikdash. But not just a bas. That's how we rebuild broken hearts. One soul at a time. One act of love. One cry answered. Together we can do this. Thank you and have a meaningful shabas and an easy fast.