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Eliezer's faith in God is shared by many of his fellow Jews in the town of Sighet. On the trains to the concentration camps, people discuss the banishment from their homes as trial sent from God to be endured—a test of faith.
In Night, Eliezer loses what had been a profound faith in God quite suddenly on his first night at Auschwitz. There are times later in the narrative when he returns to the idea of a...
Watching the group continue to assemble in prayer despite their tragic circumstances convinces Eliezer that man is stronger than God, a belief that directly challenges the tenets of his once closely-held faith.
Eliezer presents the Jewish faith in a moment of extreme darkness. When Eliezer witnesses the horror of the Auschwitz concentration camps—especially the gruesome murder of babies and young children—he feels that his God has been murdered before his eyes.
By Eliezer's reasoning, God is the weaker party since He rejects and punishes those in the Bible who are unjust or cruel—whereas the Jews in Buna still honor a God who permits them to be gassed and burned by the millions.
The Jews inside Buna come together for a service to celebrate Rosh Hashanah. Eliezer wonders, angrily, where God is and refuses to bless God’s name because of all of the death and suffering He has allowed. Eliezer thinks that man is strong, stronger than God.
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Though Eliezer lost faith in God’s mercy, he still believes that there is a God. What does God become to Eliezer? Eliezer takes Moishe’s advice throughout the book, questioning God in order to find out what He is.
