## Ba'al Shem Tov, Beshalach

###### Ba'al Shem Tov, Beshalach 9:1
[Ba'al Shem Tov, Beshalach 9:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ba%27al%20Shem%20Tov/s/Beshalach/r/9:1)

אמר אויב ארדוף אשיג אחלק וגו'. שמעתי ממורי כי ר"ת אמר אויב ארדוף וגו' ר"ת הם ה' אלפין ששם אלופו של עולם מסתתר בסוד שם סא"ל וכו' ודפח"ח:
(תוי"י ר"פ בראשית ד"ח ע"ג).

**Ami Silver, 2020:**
**The enemy said: I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them . . .** (ibid. 15:9)
The first five words of this verse begin with the letter *aleph*,³אָמַר אוֹיֵב אֶרְדּף אַשִּׂיג אֲחַלֵּק. because the Master of the World (*Alupho shel Olam*) is hidden there, in the mystery of the name Sa’l.⁴”), who is appointed over evil. The Talmud states that in the World to Come, G‑d will slaughter the evil inclination (Succah 52a). According to the Baal Shem Tov, this means that G‑d will make the evil inclination “kosher,” by removing the bad from it, symbolized here by the letter *mem*. Then, only the name סא"ל will remain, which has the combined numerical value of G‑d’s two names, Y-H-V-H and Ado-nai (91). This is the meaning of the verse: “On that day, G‑d (Y-H-V-H) and His name (Ado-nai) will be One” (Zechariah 14:9), for the result will be a revelation of G‑d’s Oneness.
*Toldos Yaakov Yosef, Bereishis*, p.8c

footnotes:
³ Omar oyev, erdof, asig, achalek –
⁴ סא"ל– one of the 72 names of G‑d, that closely resembles the name of the angel Sam’el, סמא"ל (pronounced “the samech mem