Because of a dream, Rabbi Abraham wanders from Franconia to Regensburg to find the treasure promised to him on the Stone Bridge. But amid the bizarre, banal, and dramatic scenes he encounters there, involving soldiers, fine ladies, drunkards, a fisherman, and a sleepwalker, the rabbi is unable to discern the truth for a long time. Finally, he learns it from the mouth of an unsuspecting captain who laughs at the truth of his own knowledge but then proves to be a helpful person in an emergency. On the long journey home, Abraham tries to understand how the knowledge about the treasure came to him in his life.

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