Reply To: Chidushim on Daf Yomi

אמן – א-ל מלך נאמן, אני מוסר נפשי My father told me a mashal on the value of Amen which I repeated at his eulogy forty years ago. There was a merchant who traveled overseas on a ship taking along merchandise to sell. There was a big storm wind which destroyed the ship and his merchandise and threw him out on a desert island. In his depression, he was playing around with the pebbles on the ground. Eventually, another ship arrived which took him home. When seeing his wife, he started to cry, telling her how he lost everything. Wanting to wipe his eyes, he took out his handkerchief and they noticed that something fell out of it. When they looked at it carefully, they realized that it was a diamond. So the wife asks him, do you have any more of this? He says, It must have fallen into my pocket on the desert island when I was waiting for another ship as I was playing around with the pebbles but I cannot go back there to collect more because I don’t know where the island is. When we come to the next world to account for our deeds, we start crying that we didn’t accomplish anything. We take out our handkerchief to wipe our eyes and an Amen falls out of it. So, they tell us. this is a diamond over here. Do you have any more of this? He says, if I would have known the value of this over here, how much more I could have collected but I cannot go back to collect more.