 He was famous for his lavish, enthusiastic conduct during prayer and worship, and extremely charismatic demeanour.He stressed that as "tzaddiq", his mission was to influence the common folk by absorbing Divine Light and satisfying their material needs, thus converting them to his cause and elating them.The Holy Jew pursued a more introspective course, maintaining that the "rebbe"s duty was to serve as a spiritual mentor for a more elitist group, helping them to achieve a senseless state of contemplation, aiming to restore man to his oneness with God which Adam supposedly lost when he ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.