Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

Imagine you have a great life, then suddenly everyone around you turns against you because you have black hair. You can’t help the fact that you have brown hair, having black hair isn’t wrong. Yet, others make you feel like it is, and bully you for something you have no control over. Is that fair? How do you begin to feel about your mother who passed this trait down to you? This is similar to what the Jews went through, only on a smaller scale. Elie Wiesel was only fifteen years old when his world changed forever. He was a target for the sole reason of him being Jewish. He along with around six million other Jews were sent to Nazi death camps and were either immediately killed or forced to do hard labor. All of these horrible things rattled many people’s devoted faith in God. Why would the all-powerful, all loving God do something like this to his people? Elie Wiesel’s journey is documented in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel and other’s faith was different before the Holocaust, than it was in the camps during the Holocaust, than it was at the end and after the

He loved God and wanted to know more about him. He was eager to study Cabbalah, a mystical interpretation of the Torah. Saying, “As for me, my place was in the house of study, or so they said” meaning that studying the Torah was his purpose in life (5). His faith in God was the single most important thing in his life. “By day I studied the Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple”(3). Elie then wanted to find a teacher to teach him Kabbalah. He found a teacher in Moishe the Beadle. Saying, “I became convinced that Moishe the Beadle would help me enter eternity” meaning that with Moishe the beadle being his teacher he would lead him closer to God, closer to heaven. Before the Holocaust Elie Wiesel was happy and had a strong and dedicated faith in