The Baba Sali's Premonition

It is related that in the week of Rav Mordechai's petira, the Baba Sali was overcome by a frightening premonition that much Jewish blood, including the blood of children, was about to be spilled. Though he was over ninety years old, he davened the entire day and fasted.

The next morning he announced that the gezeira had been lifted, and that one of the Tzaddikim had given his life for the generation. At that time the Baba Sali did not know that Rav Mordechai was ill. Indeed, the Tzaddik was niftar that very week.