ויסע עמוד הענן מפניהם (בשלח יד:יט)

Many wondrous miracles occurred when Maran Reb Aharon of Belz zt”l and his brother, the Bilgorai Rav zt’’l, fled the Bochnia Ghetto for Hungary.  The gabbai R’ Duvid Spira said it would be impossible to recount everything that happened on the way. “I saw everything as if in a dream.  The car traveled so lightly as if we were flying in the air.  The moon shone, and the night was aglow with an otherworldly shine. As soon as we left the ghetto, the Hungarian officer driving us started going in the wrong direction.  A sudden fog enveloped the car, and the officer related that they passed a Nazi-controlled checkpoint, but no officers were present since there was a sudden downpour of rain and sleet.”  At one point, the Hungarian officer stopped in the middle of a city at the marketplace to purchase food – leaving us stranded in the car for a few hours.  When the officer finally returned to the car, R’ Duvid admonished him for leaving them stranded in the middle of the city, near the local Nazi headquarters.  The officer replied that he had been searching for the car for a long time but couldn’t find it since it was enveloped in a heavy fog.

Once, when already in Eretz Yisroel, Maran Reb Aharon of Belz zt”l said, “The Goy (non-Jew) said there was a heavy fog around the car!”