ובחודש השביעי באחד לחודש..יום תרועה יהיה לכם…_(פינחס כט:א)

When the Sar Shalom of Belz zt’’l lived in Sokol, he passed a shul one Rosh Hashanah and heard the Baal Tokayia (shofer blower) emit a sound that pierced the heavens and aroused the whole congregation to do teshuva.  Maran expressed his sentiments, saying: This wasn’t in the merit of the shofar blower, nor in the merit of the Baal Makra (one who calls out the sounds), since they were both simple Yidden.  It was in the merit of the YIdden who gathered to hear the tekiyos – shofer blowing.
His grandson, Maran Reb Yissocher Dov of Belz zt’’l rephrased the incident saying that his grandfather, the Sar Shalom of Belz, in his great humility, didn’t allow the thought to occur that because he was standing there that is how the Baal Tokaya succeeded.