Siman 582

(139.) I heard from one of our people who was standing then with several other people of our fellowship — at the hour when she received the aforementioned letter and read it — and she wept before them profusely and said: "Presumably I am now at a very low and base level since my father praises me so highly before my eyes. For I heard from my father — that he said to the Rabbi Rabbi Nussun: sometimes he praises someone in his own eyes and before his face — because he sees that he has fallen..."