Power may be intoxicating but it’s also a burden as Sefer B’midbar (The Book of Numbers) illustrates. Moses found himself tested time and time again as he led the people through the wilderness.  

Despite receiving the ancient equivalent of Door Dash at no cost, after tiring of the scrumptious divinely provided manna, the people complained to Moshe about the lack of variety on the menu. Shortly after, his siblings challenged his leadership (likely inadvertently) by equating themselves to him. That was immediately followed by the people’s demand to return to Egypt after hearing the spies issue their report about the Promised Land. There was no rest for Moses. After the debacle of the spies, he was forced to contend with his own cousin Korach’s,uprising against him. Just as you thought things couldn’t get worse for Moses, members of Bnei Yisrael (The Children of Israel) were seduced by the Moabites and Midianites women and took part in an idolatrous orgy.  It’s no wonder that Moses lamented to God, “Why have you done evil to your servant…that you place the entire burden of leading this nation upon me?” 

Even Moses, one of the greatest leaders to ever live,........

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