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A certain Rabbi Isaac, legend tells us, living in a remote village, dreamt that he was to look for a great treasure beneath a bridge in the capital city.  He immediately went to he bridge but its base was guarded by soldiers day and night.  Rabbi Isaac visited the site day after day looking and wondering.  Finally the Captain of the Guard asked him why he was spending so much time in the vicinity,.  Rabbi Isaac described the dream that had led him to the bridge.  The Captain of the Guard laughed and said, “I too had a dream.  My dream was of a treasure hidden beneath the oven of the house of a particular Jew named Rabbi Isaac in such and such a village.”  Isaac immediately returned home and dug up the treasure, beneath his oven.  –Rabbi Joseph Heckelman

It is not in heaven, that you should say, "Who will go up to heaven for us and fetch it for us, to tell [it] to us, so that we can fulfill it?"
Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, "Who will cross to the other side of the sea for us and fetch it for us, to tell [it] to us, so that we can fulfill it?"
Rather, it is very close to you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can fulfill it.  –Deuteronomy 30