Taanit 25A

משום כיסופא. הוה לה הך שיבבתא בישתא, אמרה: מכדי ידענא דלית להו ולא מידי, מאי כולי האי? אזלא וטרפא אבבא, איכספא ועיילא לאינדרונא,

due to embarrassment, to make it appear that she was baking, despite the fact that there was no bread in her house. She had a certain evil neighbor who said to herself: Now, I know that they have nothing. What, then, is all this smoke? She went and knocked on the door to find out what was in the oven. R' Ḥanina ben Dosa’s wife was embarrassed, and she ascended to an inner room [inderona].

איתעביד לה נסא דחזיא לתנורא מלא לחמא ואגנא מלא לישא, אמרה לה: פלניתא, פלניתא! אייתי מסא, דקא חריך לחמיך. אמרה לה: אף אנא להכי עיילי. תנא: אף היא להביא מרדה נכנסה, מפני שמלומדת בנסים.

A miracle was performed for R' Ḥanina ben Dosa’s wife, as her neighbor saw the oven filled with bread and the kneading basin filled with dough. She said to R' Ḥanina’s wife, calling her by name: So-and-so, so-and-so, bring a shovel, as your bread is burning. She said to her neighbor: I too went inside for that very purpose. A tanna taught: She too had entered the inner room to bring a shovel, because she was accustomed to miracles and anticipated that one would occur to spare her embarrassment.

אמרה ליה דביתהו: עד אימת ניזיל ונצטער כולי האי? אמר לה: מאי נעביד? בעי רחמי דניתבו לך מידי. בעא רחמי, יצתה כמין פיסת יד ויהבו ליה חד כרעא דפתורא דדהבא. חזיא בחלמא, עתידי צדיקי דאכלי אפתורא דדהבא דאית ליה תלת כרעי, ואיהו ⁠— אפתורא דתרי כרעי.

The Talmud further relates: R' Ḥanina’s wife said to him: Until when will we continue to suffer this poverty? He said to her: What can we do? She responded: Pray for mercy that something will be given to you from Heaven. He prayed for mercy and something like the palm of a hand emerged and gave him one leg of a golden table. That night, his wife saw in a dream that in the future, i.e., in the World-to-Come, the righteous will eat at a golden table that has 3 legs, but she will be eating on a table that has two legs.