"aleph, bet, gimmel, daled, hey, vav...."

[Mosby]

2. Similar to this one about the Baal Shem Tov.

The intense emotions inspired by Chassidism are de­picted in the following tale. An illiterate shepherd boy somehow found himself at the Besht's synagogue on the holy day of Yom Kippur. Suddenly, his soul overflowed with sublime exaltation. He felt an intense desire to com­mune with the Almighty, but he did not know how to pray! After his lonely years in the pastures, he was more accus­tomed to the voice of animals and birds than to human speech. Overcome by spiritual turmoil, he ran to the Holy Ark containing the Torah scrolls, and burst out in a long, heart-rending "cock-a-doodle-do." The indignant worship­pers rushed at the boy, but the Besht embraced and kissed him, saying that his simple-heartedness had opened the hitherto impregnable heavenly gates, and his peculiar prayer had overtaken those of the other congregants and reached the Almighty.

The Baal Shem Tov's greatest contribution to Judaism, imo was how he made it more inclusive and democratic.