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In Elie Wiesel 's Night, Elie cries whenever he prays. One day Moshe the Beadle, who is Elie's self appointed cabbala (Jewish mysticism) master, asks Elie why he weeps when he prays. Elie tells...
Apr 1, 2020 · In my opinion, prayer made Elie feel closer to God, and the feeling was overwhelming. "Why do you cry when you pray?" he asked, as though he knew me well. "I don't know," I answered, troubled. I had never asked myself that question.
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Feb 26, 2013 · Elie prays throughout the book. His faith is part of his identity. God was his only hope of getting out of the camps. At times he cries because he wonders if his God has forsaken him in the misery of the camps.
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My parents ran a store. Hilda and Bea helped with the work. As for me, my place was in the house of study, or so they said. “There are no Kabbalists in Sighet,” my father would often tell me. He wanted to drive the idea of studying Kabbalah from my mind. In vain. I succeeded on my own in finding a master for myself in the person of Moishe the Beadl...
SPRING 1944. Splendid news from the Russian Front. There could no longer be any doubt: Germany would be defeated. It was only a matter of time, months or weeks, perhaps. The trees were in bloom. It was a year like so many others, with its spring, its engagements, its weddings, and its births. The people were saying, “The Red Army is advancing with ...
My father’s voice tore me from my daydreams: “What a shame, a shame that you did not go with your mother…I saw many children your age go with their mothers…” His voice was terribly sad. I understood that he did not wish to see what they would do to me. He did not wish to see his only son go up in flames. My forehead was covered with cold sweat. Sti...
I listened as the inmate’s voice rose; it was powerful yet broken, amid the weeping, the sobbing, the sighing of the entire “congregation”: “All the earth and universe are God’s!” He kept pausing, as though he lacked the strength to uncover the meaning beneath the text. The melody was stifled in his throat. And I, the former mystic, was thinking: Y...
YOM KIPPUR. The Day of Atonement. Should we fast? The question was hotly debated. To fast could mean a more certain, more rapid death. In this place, we were always fasting. It was Yom Kippur year-round. But there were those who said we should fast, precisely because it was dangerous to do so. We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, w...
It's debatable whether Elie completely lost his faith in God, but it surely is apparent that he changed vastly from his past enormously religious self. We see glimpses of Elie questioning and refuting God, but we also see the contradictory behavior he exhibits by returning to praise.
Nov 7, 2016 · He had watched me one day as I prayed at dusk. "Why do you cry when you pray?" he asked, as though he. knew me well. "I don't know," I answered, troubled. I had never asked myself that question. I cried because. because something inside me felt the need to cry. That was all.
Jan 16, 2006 · "Why do you cry when you pray?" he asked, as though he knew me well. "I don't know," I answered, troubled. I had never asked myself that question. I cried because...because something inside me felt the need to cry. That was all I knew. "Why do you pray?" he asked after a moment. Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?
