Night by Elie Wiesel

Madame Shacter was screaming about the fire, the Brobdingnagian flames and the furnace that she could see. Then she was begging the slew on the train to believe her just instead they gagged her and tie her up. In a way, Madame Shacter was prophesying about the crematories at the death camps, the huge flames and the furnaces that turn the Jewish nation into ashes.

I believe profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I run to the tabernacle to weep over the destruction of the Temple. (p. 13)

Elie Wiesel was a child of much(prenominal) high religious values, who at the age of just twelve, in the lead even Bar-Mitzvah, wanted to delve into Jewish mysticism. As he states, he was studying Talmud during the day , and praying during the night. You would think that a serviceman like this would never, ever loose faith in his God, allow alone a young child. In his novel it clearly states in many places that the sights he saw caused his belief in God to diminish.

        For the first time I felt a revolt arise up in me. Why should I bless                  his notice? The-Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and                  Terrible, was silent. What had I to give thanks him for? (p. 44)

Although Elie is saying how he should not be blessing Gods name because he was silent when the Jewish people needed him most, he still is reluctent to say that no God exists.



Afterwards though, he does recite the words of the Kaddish.

        Some talked of God, of his mysterious ways, of the sins of the                           Jewish people, and of their future development, but I have ceased to         pray. How I sympathised with Job! I did not deny Gods existence,          ...

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