Dealing With The Public

Moshe expressed his difficulties with the Jews, calling them (as per Rashi) Difficult People (Rashi’s example; when two people came before a judge and one saw that he was losing the case, he would lie and delay, saying that he had more proofs and witnesses, in order to stretch out the case and make things difficult), Insolent (-they would attack Moshe personally in the lowest manner,) and kvetchers, always complaining to Moshe and to each other. Moshe exclaimed that he felt that he couldn’t handle them alone. However in the very pasuk before this one, Moshe blessed them “May Hashem multiply you a thousand times!” How do we reconcile that with Moshe’s deep disappointment with the Jews? We suggested that Moshe was not disappointed at all. He was a realist. He knew what his people were, and he was ready to deal with them, were he only able to.
The lesson here is that whenever dealing with the public, accept from the outset that they will be tiresome and difficult, insolent and ungrateful. They will talk badly about you. That’s the way things are. Don’t sweat it.