Editing Rabbi Aharon Rokeach of Belz (section)

== The Rebbe's Relationship with Him ==
Rabbi Yechezkel Besser relates that once when he was with the Rebbe and mentioned Belz regarding a certain matter, the Rebbe said that Rabbi Aharon of Belz was a great tzaddik and extremely knowledgeable in Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, and the Rebbe added that he received shirayim from him.

In 1956, the twelve shluchim that the Rebbe sent to Eretz Yisrael visited Rabbi Aharon of Belz. The visit took place on the 23rd of Menachem Av. In the report they wrote to the Rebbe, the shluchim relate that when they conveyed regards from the Rebbe, he answered: "The regards are very important to me, and give the Rebbe my regards. May you succeed in your shlichus, and may you be able to conduct yourselves in Eretz Yisrael as necessary."

On the night of Monday, 10th of Adar I 1973, his nephew the Belzer Rebbe visited the Rebbe, and the Rebbe told Admur Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach of Belz that he had met his uncle, the Belzer Rebbe Rabbi Aharon Rokeach, and saw that he was "a form without matter, completely separated from the physical."

About a month after Rabbi Aharon's passing, the Rebbe wrote a response to someone who asked whether the beginning of the redemption had already started. The Rebbe's answer was that as known there is no beginning of redemption until the time of Moshiach's coming, and added a sentence referring to Rabbi Aharon's passing: "We are now in an exile of doubled and redoubled darkness even more than previous generations since several gedolei Yisrael have gone to their rest, etc."