The Middah of Noseh B’Ol/Carrying the Yoke, is seen throughout Jewish leadership.
The Yalkut Shemoni, in Yermiyah (327), says that at the time of the destruction of the first Bet HaMikdash, Hashem told Yirmiyah to go down with the Jewish people to Bavel, and Hashem would remain behind, or, Yirmiyah would stay, and Hashem would go with them to Bavel.
Yirmiyah wondered how it would help if he were to go with them, and thought it better that Hashem went.
So Hashem told Yirmiyah to remain behind.
So Yirmiyah stayed behind.
Nebuchadnezzar told his general, Nevuzaradan, who was killing everyone, not to touch Yirmiyah. Even this wicked king realized there was something special about Yirmiyah.
Yirmiyah would see the young men walking, chained together, and he would put his hand amongst them, but Nevuzaradan removed him. He told Yirmiyah, “Either you are a false prophet or you’re a masochist. What is going on here? You’ve been prophesying about the destruction and now your joining them? Why do you want to suffer? What are you doing? Are you a masochist?
Yirmiyah replied, “I am going to be with them in their pain.” And Yirmiyah stayed there with them until Hashem revealed Himself.
Hashem said, “I am going to go with them, I am there together with them.” And it says “He is tied in chains.” As if to say Yirmiyah’s empathy brought about God’s empathy.
This goes back to Moshe Rabbenu. It says he saw their pain, and after that it says,
“And God saw their pain.”
When we feel someone else’s pain, that arouses God to feel their pain.
Rashi uses almost the exact same words. It says about Moshe, he put his eyes on his heart, to feel their pain, and then it says a little later on, God placed His heart, and did not hide His eyes.
So the eyes and the heart arouse a person. Moshe Rabbenu impacted that Hashem would now empathize. Because the way we act down here, causes Hashem to act that way upstairs. So the more that we empathize with the current situation, the more we arouse Hashem’s empathy.
This happened at Yetziat Mitzrayim with Moshe and God. This happened at the Galut of the first Bet HaMikdash with Yirmiyah and Hashem, and it’s a constant way to arouse Hashem’s empathy in all situations. May we all see Yeshuot.