Ba'al Shem Tov

Afterwards, the cantor got up on his feet and testified that once they studied Torah before our Godly master, the Baal Shem Tov, may his memory be blessed; and a fire burned all around them; until they were purified very much and received the Torah from the mouth of our teacher in the same way that the Israelites received [it] on Mount Sinai. It was with voices and lightning - ‘and the call of the shofar was very powerful.’ It was truly like Mount Sinai.

For these voices were never removed, as they were Godly; but they require holiness and purification. And our aforementioned holy rabbi answered, “I have not grasped this, but it is not a wonder. Since his service and his holiness were from Israel, our Godly teacher was very very [great]; and especially when his service was on the Dniester River, which is a place of purity. And [such is referred to] from the mouth of Achiyah the Shiloni - ‘fortunate is the one born from a woman that merited this.’” And all those who had awe who heard this understood that all of these virtues that were mentioned above were also [found] in our Rabbi Elimelekh - may his memory be a blessing for life in the world to come - or similar to [them].