 This gave storytelling a new centrality in Rabbinic Judaism as a form of worship, and spread the movement's appeal.These anecdotal or miraculous stories personified new Hasidic doctrines of the saintly intermediary, Divine Omnipresence, and the hidden value of the common folk.As one master related of his visit to Dov Ber of Mezeritch, "I went to see how the Maggid tied up his shoelaces".