 This populist "Mainstream Hasidism" praised the role of the elite tzadik in extreme formulations, which incurred the censorship of the Mitnagdim.The tzadik was depicted as the divine foundation of existence, who's task was to draw and elevate the common Jewish masses by charismatic appeal and theurgic intercession.He cultivated their faith and emotional deveikut to the divinity that the Tzadik represented on the material plane, as a collective of the divine sparks in each person's soul.