LEV1007 It is the way of penitents to be exceptionally lowly and humble. If fools shame them with their former deeds, saying: "Yesterday you did this-and-this," or "You said this-and-this," they should pay them no heed but listen and rejoice, knowing that this is to their merit. For as long as they are ashamed of the previous transgressions and are humiliated because of them, their merit increases and they grow in stature. It is a great sin to tell a penitent: "Remember your former deeds," or to mention them before him with the intent of shaming him. On this it is written [this verse]: "Let a man not wrong his fellowman" (Bava Metzia 58b). The penitent should pursue good deeds and keep himself far from thoughts of this world. He should strengthen himself in the counsel of the Blessed One, take shelter in His shade, bear the yoke of the Blessed One's Torah, and abide the shame and scorn of fools, making himself as one deaf, and blind, and dead, as it is written (Tehillim 69:8,11,14): "Because for You I have born shame… I have made sackcloth my garment… And as for me, my prayer is to You, O Hashem, in a time of favor."