In this passage, my mother and I listened to a discussion Eliezer and Moishe the Beadle had together. Moishe the Beadle asks Eliezer why does he pray. Eliezer is dumbfounded by the question as he his used to praying regularly. He replies to Moishe he does not know why prays. Moishe later tells him that people should ask God questions even though people won’t understand His reply. Moishe tells Eliezer he will find the answers in himself when he prays. Eliezer later answers Moishe’s question exclaiming he prays because God can answer the real questions. In my discussion with my mother, we were intrigued by how Eliezer’s prayer life is intertwined with his life. Eliezer compares his prayer life to breathing and living as it’s a very integral
That is when he stumbled upon Moishe the Beadle, a lonely and poor Jew. While the Jews were not very fond of the needy, they accepted Moishe because he was quiet and he stayed out of the way. Elie and Moishe would stay in the synagogue after all the faithful had left. Moishe would often tell him, “Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him…” (pg 5).
However during Eliezer’s first departures end, In the text Eliezer prays to God in his head and thinks "Oh God, Master of the Universe, in your infinite compassion, have mercy on us ... " (PG 20) but sadly in this story his calls will go unheard and shall be acquitted with years of torture and no help from his lord. Nevertheless later during the line that Eliezer and his father were taken he questions to himself why should he praise the name of the almighty master of the universe as they had not done anything to be thankful for. Moreover after the initial transportation and encounter with the angel of death Eliezer shall never forget the day his god was killed and his dreams turned to ashes.
One man asked, where is God and Elie’s only response was that God is “hanging here from this
Faithful Where there is death there is destruction, where there is smoke there is night. In Night by Elie Wiesel Eliezer is forced to endure beatings, selections that will determine if he will be alive the next day, separation from his family, and starvation. Eliezer is a young Jewish boy interested in learning kabala, but when he and his family are taken into Nazi captivity, they are forced to defile places of worship and desecrate their faith. It leaves them asking how this could happen to them? Throughout the story, Eliezer looks for someone or something to believe in because he starts to lose faith in God and he tries to use his dad as a remedy.
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” (Bob Marley) Throughout history there are few people remembered for their integrity, for their tyranny, dishonesty, selfishness, yes, but integrity is such a rare true thing that is untouchable by those around those who possess it. It shines through the darkness. For instance, William Wilberforce, born and raised in a wealthy traditional family was involved in abolitionism,promoting education for the underprivileged, Christianity, strict uprightness and health and wellbeing of animals.
He also questions God in many other ways. And later he explains how he doesn’t care if God punished him or not, or he wouldn’t beg for his life.” But now i no longer pleaded in my life for anything. I was no longer to lament. I was the accuser,
When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from paradise… But look at these men whom You have betrayed, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name!,” (pg.68) because of all the horrors and mistreatment Elie has endured, like witnessing infants being thrown into the trenches, “... Children thrown into the flames,” (pg.32), and watching his father being slapped, “... he slapped my father with such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours,” (pg.39), his faith is distinguished. This contrasts to the beginning of the book where Eliezer says he cannot imagine a world without God, “Why do I pray?
1) As Night begins, Eliezer is so moved by faith that he weeps when he prays. He is also searching for a deeper understanding of the mystical teachings of the Kabbalah. How does Eliezer's relationship with his faith and with God change as the book progresses? At the beginning of the book, Eliezer is very strong in his faith, as shown by his weeping and his yearning for a teacher to teach him the Kabbalah.
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel narrates the legendary tale of what happened to him and his father during the Holocaust. In the introduction, Wiesel talks about how his village in Seghet was never worried about the war until it was too late. Wiesel’s village received advanced notice of the Germans, but the whole village ignored it. Throughout the entire account, Wiesel has many traits that are key to his survival in the concertation camps.
Even so, in spite of his beliefs, he prays for strength not end up like another man who allows his father to die for his own sake. We can see from various points in his life that he has no doubt that there is a God, but there is an emphasized bitterness that overtakes him towards the character of God during his years of suffering. 11. Throughout a majority of their time in imprisonment Eliezer and his father have a strong bond that keeps them going. This is in contrast to before their capture when Eliezer has a resentment for his father's concern for others before his own family.
Eliezer was very close to god and wanted to learn anything he could. Once he was taken away from his home, he began losing faith in god and lost all hope. Eliezer stopped praying and he believed that god was unjust. Eliezer felt as though god was uncaring and so he stopped believing in him. His view on god changed juristically throughout Night.
He cannot comprehend the horrors that surround him, and his faith in God starts to falter. When everyone around him starts to pray, Eliezer faces an intense anger inside of him. He questions, “Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank him for?”
One day Eliezer comes to his father’s bed and he is gone most likely taken to the crematory. He doesn't mourn for him and feels bad because of it, but he also feels
At the beginning of the novel Eliezer is strong in his belief of God and prays and studies scripture with his friend Moishe. That is a strong change to go from Eliezer reassuring his faith every day to saying that he was in a world without God, love, or mercy. This is one way that the dynamic character, Eliezer Wiesel, changed throughout the
It is a common assumption among numerous people in the world that the Holocaust never existed. In fact, almost fifty percent of the world population never even heard of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel helped people around the world learn about the Holocaust through his book “Night.” He wanted people to see the bravery, courage, and guilt of the Jews through his book. “Night” shows the horrific and malicious acts in the German concentration camps during the Holocaust.