Editing Rabbi Aharon Rokeach of Belz (section)

== The Frierdiker Rebbe's Efforts to Save the Belzer Rebbe ==
When World War II broke out, Rabbi Aharon remained in Poland. The Belzer Chassidim committee sent a letter to the Frierdiker Rebbe requesting his assistance in saving Rabbi Aharon. After receiving the letter, the Frierdiker Rebbe responded that he was ready to help, but for this he needed to know "the exact private location of his holy residence, his holy name and age, and his holy parents' names precisely, and the names of other living family members, because without this it is impossible to make any efforts."

At the same time, that very day, the Frierdiker Rebbe wrote a letter to Rabbi Shlomo Yehuda Leib Eliezerov, detailing what needed to be done to obtain an exit permit from Europe and an entry permit to Eretz Yisroel for the Belzer Rebbe.

The Frierdiker Rebbe also wrote to the Chief Justice in Eretz HaKodesh, Mr. Gad Frumkin, promising him that if he would involve himself in this matter, "Hashem Yisborach will bestow upon my friend and his household an abundance of life and blessing in gashmius and ruchnius." Additional letters regarding this matter were written to Rabbi Moshe Blau, chairman of Agudas Yisroel, to Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Heschel - the Kopyczynitzer Rebbe, and to the Tzehilimer Rebbe, Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Greenwald.

Rabbi Elimelech Ashkenazi, the head of the Beis Din "Machzikei Hadas" in Melbourne, who was one of the activists of the Belzer Chassidim committee that requested assistance from the Frierdiker Rebbe to save the Belzer Rebbe, writes in his book "Kedushas Aharon":

"We immediately prepared a list of all the Rebbe's family members with their names and details, and provided it to the Lubavitcher Rebbe [the Frierdiker Rebbe] as requested in his aforementioned letter." He continues: "On a heavily rainy day during the winter of 1942, the holy Gaon Rabbi Shlomo-Yehuda-Leib Eliezerov, the Rabbi of Chevron, appeared at my house and delivered a letter he had received to give to me from the holy Gaon, the righteous Rebbe of Lubavitch [the Frierdiker Rebbe]. I was shocked to see how such an honored and great rabbi, an elderly and suffering man, troubled himself to come to my house. When I asked why he troubled himself, as he could have sent it through his assistants, he answered: 'The Rebbe writes to me to deliver this to you, I must fulfill his words.' When I said again that if he had informed me, I would have hurried to come to him, he answered: 'The mitzvah is greater when done personally than through a messenger, and every step involved in saving that tzaddik is precious to me and not difficult for me...'"

After the Belzer Rebbe was saved and arrived in Eretz HaKodesh, the Frierdiker Rebbe sent a telegram to Rabbi Shaul Dov Zislin and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kuperstoch, requesting them to visit Rabbi Aharon and bless him in the name of the Frierdiker Rebbe with 'Boruchim Haboim', and for good and blessing in gashmius and ruchnius, and to report back to the Frierdiker Rebbe about his condition and that of his family members. On Sunday, 19 Shevat 1944 (ten days after Rabbi Aharon arrived in Eretz HaKodesh), the delegation traveled to Rabbi Aharon, which also included Rabbi Shlomo Yehuda Leib Eliezerov, Rabbi Yitzchok Ornstein, and Rabbi Yehuda Leib Slonim.
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