Elie wanted nothing more to learn the Cabbala, and was very serious with his studies. “By day i studied Talmud and By night [he] run to the synagogue to cry over the destruction of the temple.” (3) This shows Elie was serious about his religion, he even desperately tried to find a teacher that can teach him the Cabbala. Moishe the Beadle (his teacher) ask Elie why he prays to God, he answers, “ Why did I pray?... Why did I live?... Why did I breathe?” (4) His belief is absolute, God is unconditional; he can’t imagine being without God and his faith.
Ellie Would study Jewish prayers, Talmud, during the day, and at night he would run to the synagogue to cry about the destruction of the temple. He was very eager to learn Kaballah, despite being too young for it. His father wouldn’t teach it to him, nor would he find someone to teach it to him, so Moishe the Beadle decided to dedicate his time to teach it to him. Although Wiesel didn't know why he spent his time being so religious, it was natural to him, like “breathing.” As the story progressed, all the Jews were expelled from Sighet, and one of those Jews was Moishe the Beadle. Luckily he got to escape from the Nazis, but after seeing inhuman and cruel actions from the Nazis, such as tossing up babies and using them as shooting practice targets, he came back a completely different person.
Elie struggles to find trust in God, for he feels his God has abandoned him, allowing his people to live in such pain. Eventually, Elie find that his faith has deteriorated, diminished from his resilient childhood beliefs. Although strongly religious before his journey in the Holocaust, Wiesel went through a dramatic deterioration of faith during the horrific events he experienced in Auschwitz, ultimately leading to his distant relationship with God by the end of the memoir. When he was only a young boy, Elie realized his calling in life was profess his faith in the study of Kabbalah, representing his strong connection with God. Determined to master his faith, Wiesel asks his father, “to find [him] a master who could guide [him] in the study of the Kabbalah” (4).
Promises At the start of the film there was a tire which was rolling and burning. To me this symbolizes the, what seems to be, never ending conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelites, this is because even when the tire rolls through a puddle the flames still do not extinguish. Promises is a hopeful film that shows what Israelites and Palestinians lives are like from children to young adulthood, I focused on Shlomo’s daily life and his views/interactions on Palestinians conveyed through his master narrative which is religion. Shlomo is a son of a well-respected rabbi; he lives with his family in the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem. He is very well spoken for somebody so young, “...I hear the church bells, the Arabs, and I hear the Jews praying so it would really bother me very much if I wouldn’t live here and I wouldn’t get used to it and because I get used to it, it is like part of hearing the tree’s shaking.
As they were attending the walk out of their homes and into the small ghettos, the reality of impending terrors awakening inside of them, they had dropped to the ground and prayed to no one other than God, desperately shouting, “Oh God, Master of the Universe, in your infinite compassion, have mercy on us.” Throughout the rest of this story, Elie had struggled to maintain his faith during all of the appalling obstacles which had needed to be overcome. This had been terribly hard and there had been repeated questionings of God’s existence, even times when he felt that his belief had been completely exhausted. However, although it might have been hanging by just a thread, his faith was still very much existent. To further explain Elie’s steadfast spirituality, it is important to touch upon the some of the many
Dehumanization has to be the most worst way to deprive a person from there humane self. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel, a 12 year old boy sentenced to a concentration camp, often has to deal with the horrific attempts to deprive him of his human qualities. Dehumanization remains a recurring event in Night which happens either physically or mentally. Dehumanization physically occurs in Night. Shlomo, Elie’s father goes to a meeting, as he returns from the meeting he has brought some bad news on his way back.
Everyone lives and dies for himself alone.” Before the camps, Elie was religious and had a relationship with God. But, as he saw the devastation in the concentration camps, he wondered why God wasn’t stopping it, and he lost faith. When he broke that relationship with faith, he relied on himself instead of God. Elie said he felt stronger than the almighty and that became his strength to live through the concentration camps. Unlike Elie, Guido’s main purpose was to keep his family member alive and innocent.
The gift of god was given to him from the first moments of life (Augustine, confessions, p.6), this concept was what he truly believed as he learned more about god. However as an infant he had no knowledge of what gods gift is. All men’s lives begin as an infant, and it is at this point that man first sins. An infants actions are based off of desire, and they get angry when their wishes aren’t fulfilled but they don’t know any better. If we acted in the same manner as an adult we would be condemned.
Being a survivor of the Holocaust, and like many others in his situation, he came out from this experience finding himself at a loss for words for a period of ten years, where he refused to relive his previous daunting experiences. But when he spoke out, he spoke out strong through the book Night, recalling the relentless darkness that had plagued his child hood. In his autobiography, Wiesel plays on themes such as the power of faith and the menacing aptitude of apathy. He emphasizes the importance of awareness, of taking action, in other words: the importance of bearing witness. And his credence to this ideology is just, for bearing witness should be an endowment placed upon all human beings as their responsibility to never let the oppressed go unnoticed and to help the silenced find their voices.
After his first sermon Rambert was so disturbed by the priest’s words that he tried to escape the town. Shortly after Father Paneloux’s sermon, Young Jacques Othon suffers slowly in front of Father Paneloux and while the boy was screaming and dieing slowly, He cried out “My god spare this child!” This had a large effect on the way Father Paneloux looked at the plague. Father Paneloux’s second sermon had a different domineer; he supplied comfort to the community instead of scaring them off. "It gives us a glimpse of that radiant eternal light which glows, a small still flame, in the dark core of human suffering. And this light, too, illuminates the shadowed paths that lead toward deliverance.