The Berocha for the Yeshiva

Rav Yisrael Ehrlich writes in his sefer Shaul Bechir HaShem the following, as he heard it from Rav Shaul Brach himself.

Rav Shaul related how he traveled in the winter to the Mittler Rebbe of Belz, Rav Yehoshua. "To this day, I myself do not comprehend all I experienced there," he admitted, and continued, "I entered the Rav's room with my kvittel, and it was as if I was enshrouded in darkness. I felt, chas vesholom, as if I were blind. I could not see, and I was struck by a great fear. The Rav came and held my hand and guided me to his table, and he took my kvittel and read it.

"He then began to describe my apartment in Mogendorf, where I served as Rav, and depicted each room with its dimensions, and where it was located, whether north or east and so on. He then calculated and related the dimensions of the adjoining Bais Medrash, how many trees were planted there and where they were situated. Afterward, the Belzer Rebbe blessed me that I should merit to have a yeshiva with good talmidim."

This, in fact, was what Rav Shaul left behind. He writes in his tzavo'a, printed in the sefer Tov Devorecha: "And if someone will be present at the levaya who wishes to say a hesped, they should refrain from false grandiose titles like Tzaddik or Gaon. Rather, they may deliver the hesped and eulogize me that I merited to uphold and run a yeshiva with upright students and talmidim hogunim, full of yiras Shomayim and love of Torah, who toil in it. I merited all this through the berocha of Geonim Moron Admor the holy Rav Yehoshua of Belz and the holy Gaon Rav Yechezkel Shraga of Shinova."