Everything

The Talmud tells us that Moses “had it all”. He had absolute spiritual connectivity, 'divine wealth', in addition to being a financially wealthy man. Moses was a man with everything. 
Yet, we are told that Moses prayed. He beseeched G-d. Why? What could Moses pray for? What did he lack?
Jewish spirituality tells us that Moses' primary function was Shepherd of his people. His ego-less essence was bound up in the lives of his people.
To illustrate this, the Midrash gives us a parable: Three people approached a king to ask for favors. Two of them asked for personal needs and the king granted them. The third said, “I don't need anything for myself but there is an area of your Kingdom in disrepair. Please rebuild it for the inhabitants' sake.” The King replied, “This selflessness is your crown of leadership.” True leadership means that you feel the needs of your flock as if it was your own.
Moses was such a leader. He straddled two worlds: He saw the world's beauty through G-d's eyes. He saw the world's pain through ours. While he personally was 'wealthy' in every dimension, his people's pain was his own. Their darkness, their struggle, became his personal odyssey.
Explaining a Scriptural nuance in this week's Torah reading, our Sages state, “Moses was the Jewish people, and the Jewish people were Moses; the leader of the generation is [totally identified] with that entire generation.”
Even as Moses represented G-d, channeling divine blessings to the world, he prayed as a mortal for the needs of his people. He felt our deficiencies with every fiber of his being. He was us.
The Zohar, Judaism's primary book of Mysticism, tells us that every generation has its Moses. We're never alone because we always have a shepherd who feels our needs and channels blessings to help us.
This coming Monday evening/Tuesday is the Rebbe's twentieth yahrtzeit (please click here for more info).

What better time to acknowledge the Moses of our generation?