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Zohar By Elie Wiesel Character Analysis

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Initially, prior to Sighet’s Jewish community deportation to Auschwitz, Elizer’s faith in his God is absolute; he is profoundly religious. As Moishe the Beadle questions him about his aim in praying God, Elie is troubled: “Why did I pray? […] Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (Wiesel 4). Beforehand, the protagonist had not questioned the origins of his faith, suggesting that he cannot conceive his existence without faith in an omnipotent and unconditional God. At the age of twelve, Eliezer ignores his father's demand, by remaining in the synagogue “long after all the faithful had gone” to study “the Zohar, the Kabbalistic works, the secrets of Jewish mysticism” (Wiesel 5). Despite his patriarch’s effort “to drive the idea of studying Kabbalah
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