The pasuk (verse) says that Moshe Rabbeinu, the greatest leader to ever live, performed his first action at the first moment when he became an adult, or got a little older. He was in the house of Paro, went out to his brothers, and saw their bondage, their suffering, their pain. Rashi gives us two steps. These are the two steps of what it takes to be nosei be'ol (bearing another's burden): Natan einav, he gave his eyes to the story; v'libo, and his heart; lih yot meitzar alehem, to feel their pain. That's when he sees an Egyptian hitting a Jew, and then he sees two Jews hitting each other. All the stories, all the caring, start with Natan einav v'libo.
The responsibility of a Jew is to first see the story, to know the story. You don't need to know every gruesome detail of every bomb that fell in Israel, but you have a responsibility to know what's happening. If it was your brother, you'd know what's happening. Your sister, you'd know what's happening. Your children, you'd know what's happening. So if it's your family, how are we not knowing what's happening? To some degree. It doesn't mean you have to be up on the news every day. It doesn't mean you have to have Fox and CNN. That's not what I'm saying. I say you need to know. Natan einav. Moshe Rabbeinu. The first step of leadership is that he wanted to see what was happening. V'libo. Not just see to talk about. Not just see it to have a story. Not to see to tell gruesome details. To see in order to care. So we have two steps. We need to know what's happening, and we need to find a way, to some degree, to feel it.
And the pesukim, and Hashem did the same thing. In fact, every great leader in the Jewish people, before taking on their role, had to be great. They had to be trained in this. They had to show themselves to be great in this skill. Avraham, Yitzhak, Yaakov, the Shevatim (tribes). You know what they all had in common? They were all shepherds. Why were they all shepherds? Because shepherds have to care about sheep. Moshe Rabbeinu. Before Hashem appeared to him in the burning bush, he was a shepherd, because a shepherd has to care about sheep. He ran after one sheep because he saw their pain. That is our responsibility. If you want to be anything in this nation, you need to know what's happening, and you need to care about what's happening. Einav v'libo. His eyes and then his heart. That's the prerequisite to being Jewish, and definitely the prerequisite to any level of leadership in the Jewish nation.