Siman 62

(3.) The story of the Baal Tefillah (Master of Prayer) began after he had a conversation with the cantor Rabbi Yosef of this [town], and we were standing before him, and the aforementioned cantor's garment was torn. He answered and said to the cantor: Are you not the baal tefillah through whom everything is drawn (that is, all the Divine bounties) — so why do you not have a garment (called a kaftan)? And in the meanwhile he began to tell it in these words: There was already such a case — that there was a baal tefillah — and he told the entire story. And at the beginning of his telling we did not know that he was telling a story from his stories, but rather we thought he was telling a story that had simply occurred. Only afterwards, when he entered into the words, we understood the awesome nature of what he was telling — that it is an awesome story from his stories, which are stories of primordial years.