Chazal instituted many brachos for us to say in our everyday life. The Zohar points out that the brachos along with the power of Amen force the gates of shomayim to open wide and pour parnassah and bracha upon the entire world. We have such a great opportunity but so many times we hear a bracha and we let it pass us, or we are just embarrassed to say a bracha out loud, giving someone a chance to say Amen. We feel as if we are showing off, or throwing it in someone’s face that we say a bracha, yet Rav Apter says by saying brachos to ourselves we are throwing away jewels. Every time one answers Amen, a guardian angel in shomayim is created. Rav Moshe Feinstein says that these angels will defend us in front of Hashem Yisborach and plead for us. How much more powerful can one word be? I read a story in a book written by Esther Stern titled, Just One Word. Amen.
“A few days before Yom Kippur, a Bais Yaakov high school in Yerushalayim decided to hold a brachos party to conclude the brachos project they had been working on since the beginning of the year. The inspiring gathering complimented the elevated atmosphere preceding the holy day of Yom Kippur. Every class recited the bracha out loud. The brachos were met with a hearty Amen from the hundreds of other girls. The girls were visibly excited. They imagined that the angels they had created were mingling among them, collecting this precious collection of Amens and delivering it directly to the Kisei Hakavod.
“The principal stood at the side of the stage, tears rolling down her cheeks. ‘I’ve never experienced anything like this,’ she kept repeating over and over again.
It was fascinating to walk through the hallways during recess. Girls crowded together excitedly, eating their snacks and reciting brachos. As one girl said her bracha out loud, the others all answered Amen. This was repeated until every girl recited her bracha on her snack.
“One of the teachers at the school had been married for several years and was still childless. Before the girls recited borei pri haetz another teacher mentioned her name.
Ten months later, this teacher had a baby.”
I make a request of all the tzidkaniot who read this blog and ask that the next time you say borei pri haetz, say it loud and if you hear it, say Amen with all your koach and keep in mind my aunt, Dina bas Amalia. She’s been married for 13 years without any children. Hopefully, be’ezras Hashem b’zechus all of you, she will have a healthy baby quickly and speedily within this year.
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