My father was a poshete yid like that who would sit everyday and said Tehilim. I heard a mashel from him which I said over at his hesped. A merchant travels on a ship oversees and takes along merchandise to sell. The ship encounters a storm wind and he gets thrown out to a desert island. Being depressed, he plays around with the sand and pebbles. After a while, a ship comes and he arrives home. He starts crying to his wife moaning how he lost everything and as he takes his handkerchief out to wipe his eyes, something falls out. They examine it and the wife screams out, do you know what this is? It is a diamond, a brilliant. So the man says, I must have collected it when I played around with the pebbles. If I would have known its value, how much more I would have been able to collect but I can’t go back there as I don’t know where it is.
After life when we are held to task what have we done this world, we start crying. When we take our handkerchief out, something falls out. As they examine it carefully, they notice that an Amen fell out. Do you have anymore of this which is so precious over here? If I would have known its value how much more I could have collected but I cannot go back anymore.
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