 As even intellectuals struggled with the sublime dialectics of infinity and corporeality, there was little hope to have the common folk truly internalize these, not as mere abstractions to pay lip service to.Ideologues exhorted them to have faith, but the true answer, which marked their rise as a distinct sect, was the concept of the "Tzaddiq".A Hasidic master was to serve as a living embodiment of the recondite teachings.