The advocate

Moshe was not only the servant of YHWH, he was also the advocate of the Children of Israel before Him. Whenever YHWH threatened to destroy the people of Israel (which happened at least twice in the story of the Chumash) Moshe dissuaded Him. Clearly the present day leadership of the Jewish people failed to accomplish a comparable dissuasion before the Nazi Genocide. 

The story of the Chumash teaches that in order to make possible a covenantal relationship between Israel and YHWH it is important for the people to be led by a powerful advocate, a strong lover of the people. Yes the people of Israel had erred deeply somehow but instead of blaming the people Moshe devised (a) an institutional solution, the mishkan, that resolved the error; and (b) a procedural solution, the 40 years in the wilderness, that allowed for the elimination of the people's pusillanimous leadership. The second solution had the effect of weakening the Sinaitic covenant (which now included the solution of the mishkan) so that at the end of the entire procedural solution the structural solution needed to be updated into the Covenant of Moab. 

The Jewish people today need a caring leader who will devise a modern day covenant that (a) eliminates the leadership of those spiritual notables who are afraid of the future; and (b) designs an institutional structure that would enable an easy relationship between YHWH and the Jewish people in the present day.