IN HIS BOOK Secret Body, Jeffrey Kripal retells a classic Jewish fable: A rabbi from Cracow once dreamed that he should go to Prague to find a treasure that was hidden under a bridge there. In Prague, far away from home, he found the bridge guarded by a Christian, who laughed at him for believing in dreams. He, after all, had had a similar dream, which told him to go to Cracow, where he would find a treasure buried behind the stove of a rabbi named Isaac, son of Jekel. The rabbi said nothing but hurried home, for he was Isaac, son of Jekel, and the treasure he had sought in a distant land was in fact buried in his very own home.
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