EXOD104 We should sympathize with the problems of others even when we ourselves are suffering. Rabbi Moshe Sofer, author of Chasam Sofer, explained that by also is meant that not only God, but the people also heard one another's cries. Even though the entire Jewish people were enslaved and afflicted, they did not forget the plight of their fellow man. Never say to someone, "I have my own problems. I don't want to hear about yours." If two people are in a hospital, each should take an interest in the other's condition."