Have You Taken A Beating? Are You Ready For More?

Moshe Rabbeinu asks Hashem to die. The Jews request for meat rattled Moshe to the point where he said to Hashem: ‘Please kill me if I find favor in your eyes.’ Hashem’s response is to tell Moshe to ‘gather 70 elders.’ What is the cause of Moshe’s intense anguish? How does Hashem respond to it? Sources: Bamidbar Parshas Behaaloscha Perek 11 Pesukim 4-16 Commentery of Chida and Ben Ish Chai on Possuk 13 Bamidbar Rabba Parsha 15 Perek 21 Commentery of Maharzu on the Midrash Famous Maamar of the Rebbe Veatoh Tetzaveh. Ois 11