A certain man came to Rabbi Yosei bar Ḥalafta and said to him: ‘I saw in my dream that they said to me: Arise and ascend to Cappadocia and you will take your father’s property.’45You will inherit from him. He said to him: ‘Did your father ascend to Cappadocia during his lifetime?’ He said to him: ‘No.’ He said to him: ‘Go and count twenty floor beams in your house.’46You will find your father’s treasure buried beneath the twentieth beam. He said to him: ‘There are not twenty floor beams.’ He said to him: ‘Go and count them from top to bottom and from bottom to top, and in the place that the number of twenty floor beams is completed, there you will find it.’ He went and did so, found his property, and became wealthy. From where did Rabbi Yosei understand this? Cappadocia, cappa in Greek is twenty, docia in Greek are beams.
A certain man came to Rabbi Yosei bar Ḥalafta and said to
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