Siman 285

(45.) Once he spoke with me and said as if with longing: "How does one acquire a chevra [fellowship] as there was by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and the like? And I would also have inserted my head among them etc." He answered and said: "Wherever there would be a chevra — I would certainly be their Rebbe!" [in Yiddish: "vi sigivalт givven a chevra volt ich givven zeyer Rebbe"].