Jewish%20thought for Taanit 48:10

רב פפא גזר תעניתא ולא אתא מיטרא חלש ליביה שרף פינכא דדייסא ובעי רחמי ולא אתא מיטרא אמר ליה רב נחמן בר אושפזתי אי שריף מר פינכא אחריתי דדייסא אתי מיטרא איכסיף וחלש דעתיה ואתא מיטרא

But as for us we have not seen [it] with our eyes. Whereupon there followed such a heavy fall of rain that the gutters of Mahuza<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [For this reading v. D.S. Mahuza was the place of Raba. Cur. edd. 'of Sepphoris'.]');">¹⁶</span> emptied their waters into the Tigris. Raba's father then appeared unto him in a dream and said to him: Is there anyone who troubles Heaven so much? Change thy [sleeping] place.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Underlying this is the popular belief that a change of place brings with it a change of fortune.');">¹⁷</span>

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