Responsa for Kiddushin 161:11

הנך שבוייתא דאתאי לנהרדעא אסקינהו לבי רב עמרם חסידא אשקולו דרגא מקמייהו בהדי דקא חלפה חדא מנייהו נפל נהורא באיפומא שקליה רב עמרם לדרגא דלא הוו יכלין בי עשרה למדלייא דלייא לחודיה סליק ואזיל

a light fell on the sky lights;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which revealed her beauty to R. 'Amram below.');">²⁶</span> [thereupon] R'Amram seized the ladder, which ten men could not raise, and he alone set it up and proceeded to ascend. When he had gone half way up the ladder, he stayed his feet and cried out, 'A fire at R'Amram's!' The Rabbis came and reproved him, 'We have shamed you!'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' You have made us put you to shame by revealing your burning passion.');">²⁷</span> Said he to them: 'Better that you shame Amram in this world than that you be ashamed of him in the next.'

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