## Ba'al Shem Tov, Masei

###### Ba'al Shem Tov, Masei 2:1
[Ba'al Shem Tov, Masei 2:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ba%27al%20Shem%20Tov/s/Masei/r/2:1)

עוד שמעתי בשם מורי כשהלך בנסיעה הידועה. הראה לו רבו במקום זה היה מרמז הנסיעה שהיו נוסעין ישראל במדבר במסע זו, וכל נסיעת האדם מרומז בתורה וכו', וכן כשנשברה לו הספינה והיה בעצבות גדול, ובא רבו ותמה עליו, והראה לו באיזה עולמות הוא עכשיו, והיו שמות אהי"ה וצרופי אהי"ה וכו', ואז התחזק בלבו למתקן בשרשן כידוע לו וכו' ודפח"ח:
(תוי"י בסופו דר"ח ריש ע"ד).

**Ami Silver, 2020:**
I heard from my Master that when he was on his famous journey (to the Land of Israel), his teacher⁵ showed him how each stop on the way alluded to another encampment of Israel in the desert; for all of a person’s travels are alluded to in the Torah. And when the ship sank⁶ and he became bitterly depressed, his teacher was surprised at him, and showed him their place at that moment in the supernal worlds, with the name Ekiyeh, and its letter-combinations. Then he strengthened himself to sweeten them in their root, as he knew how to do.
*Toldos Yaakov Yosef*, 208d

footnotes:
⁵ The prophet Achiya HaShiloni (mentioned in I Kings 11:3, 12:4 and 15:5).
⁶ After leaving Istanbul on the way to Israel, the Baal Shem Tov’s ship sunk, though he survived. He understood that this was a sign from heaven forbidding him to continue to the Holy Land, and he returned to Europe.