a public speaker who tells stories and exhorts people to raise their standards of belief and behavior

a spiritual teacher who appears to the person who is worthy in order to teach him a path in Torah

(lit., "recite"): the portion of the *Seder in which the story of the Exodus from Egypt is retold

Maggid (מַגִּיד) is an itinerant preacher, skilled as a narrator of stories. A preacher of the more scholarly sort was called "darshan" and usually occupied the official position of rabbi. The title of "maggid mesharim" (= "a preacher of uprightness"; abbreviated) probably dates from the sixteenth century.