Siman 132

(4.) On his journey to the Land of Israel he traveled by way of Nikolayev and Kherson to Odessa, and he spent the Sabbath of Shavuos in Kherson, and said there wondrous Torahs on the verse [Psalms 107]: "He raises the storm to stillness," and several more Torahs. And people of the Rabbi of Ladi were there. And they brought before him the Torahs of the Rabbi and he refuted his words before his people, and showed them that it was not as he had said. And on the night of Shavuos, after being awake as is customary, he went to the mikveh with one of his people. And this man who went with him to the mikveh on Shavuos told me that Rabbainu o.b.m. asked him every so often along the way whether he hears voices. And he replied that he hears nothing at all. And Rabbainu was greatly astonished that he heard nothing — and said: "How is it possible not to hear voices now?" Afterwards he said: "Perhaps it is the sound of the orchestra [kapelye] that I am hearing." And the aforementioned man replied that he hears no sound of an orchestra nor any sound at all, and he was very astonished. And the aforementioned man understood that he was hearing the voices and thunders of the receiving of the Torah. Afterwards, when he came out of the mikveh, he said: "I have now come to know — at the time of the receiving of the Torah — regarding what is said in the holy Zohar [Tikkunei Zohar 73b]: 'There is awe and there is awe' etc. — and now it has become known to me that there is yet another awe that is still further and further, even beyond the Ira Ila'ah [supernal awe] mentioned there. For it has become known to me now an awe of Divinity that is a very, very exalted and elevated fear and awe."