Concentration camps led thousands of Jewish people to lose hope in God and question God’s existence, one of them was Elie Wiesel. Elie’s view on God drastically changed from the beginning of the book to the end. Elie’s life before the concentration camp revolved around Judaism. Every passing day in the camp caused his faith for God to falter and by the time he was liberated he had lost all faith in the existence of God. In the beginning of Night, Elie devoted his time to God. He wanted to study Kabbalah but his father felt the study of Kabbalah was too complex for him to understand and should wait until he was thirty, Elie thought otherwise. He did not think you needed to be a specific age to understand the divinity of God and Kabbalah. One day Moshe the Beadle asked Elie why he prayed. Elie thought, “Why did I pray? Strange Question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?”(page 4) Elie didn't know what life without God was, all his life he had been surround by religion. He saw it like breathing, something he needed to do to keep living. Elie response was, “I don't know”,(page 4) because he thought that it was self explanatory, just like living. He did not consider praying as a choice but a way to keep living. …show more content…
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah Elie began to question God. He did not understand how Jews around him could still have faith and have the capacity to bless him. Elie could not understand how the Master of the Universe would cause thousand of children die. He believed that the gas chambers belonged to God and that God had created the concentration camps. He was sure God was the one to blame for letting something so catastrophic like this occur. Elie felt God was not able to love them if all he did was torture them and betray them. He did not feel like he could pray to someone that killed thousands of people every