Revisiting Follow Your Dream

Read an old, about a half page long, Hebrew story which seems a summary of Alchemist written by Paulo Coelho. The story is about a dream of Rabbi Eizik like Alchemist is the story of Santiago’s dream about the treasure. Rabbi lives in Krakow but in his dream he sees a treasure under a bridge which is leading to the King’s palace in Prague. Believing in his dream Rabbi starts his journey in search of the treasure. But he surprised to see a group of soldiers are guarding the bridge round the clock and there was no such indication in the dream. He becomes restless thinking how he can dig under the bridge in the presence of the soldiers. Looking to Rabbi’s restlessness, the captain of the soldiers asked him if he needs any help. Considering kindness of the captain, Rabbi honestly narrated him the story of his dream that he is all the way from Krakow to Prague for the treasure. The captain laughed sympathetically and told that he is also getting the similar dream repeatedly about the treasure which is buried under the kitchen stove of some Rabbi Eizik at Krakow. Rabbi thanked the captain, travelled back home and found the treasure under his kitchen stove. The end is similar in Alchemist in which the treasure was there in the small abandoned church in Spain from where Santiago has started the journey for the treasure to Egypt. The message is common what you are looking for are around or within but you have to travel far for realisation.