Lehallel
Authorizing approved playback

Torah · 2:06

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

522 views · Aug 1, 2025

Yaakov Lemmer

Zvi Gluck reflects on leadership, emotional weight, and healing through Jewish wisdom and community.

Read the notes on this shiur: outline, sources, and more from Yaakov Lemmer

Ask this shiur

Ask in your own words — the answer is the exact moment this shiur speaks to it.

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Yaakov Lemmer’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

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

Jump to a moment

  1. 0:00Oh, it's luck again. Do you ever feel like it's just too much? You're carrying a
  2. 0:30caring for people in pain. The cry we use the same word aha as we use
  3. 1:01system of support. And that's what we have to do especially now in the days leading
  4. 1:31feeling alone. And the greatest kindness is letting someone know they're not alone. So this shabas,

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library where each video was reviewed against one written standard before it could appear. No ads, no comments, no autoplay into anything unapproved.

More from Yaakov Lemmerevery one approved
Why is this here?

Before this shiur could appear, it was reviewed against one written standard — the same standard for every video in the library, no exceptions and no algorithm deciding on its own. It was reviewed on August 10, 2026. It is listed under Torah. If you believe something here does not belong, tell us — every challenge is read by a person.

Get the week’s best, by email

One email a week — a handful of approved shiurim and music. No account needed.

Know a family who would use this? Give a Lehallel membership.