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McKinstry Rose. | Certified Educator. Share Cite. In Chapter 1 of Night, Moche the Beadle stumps Elie when he asks him both of these questions. Elie is unable to give a reason for why he prays...
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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...
Jan 16, 2006 · Night. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a straightforward and deeply disturbing autobiographical account of how he survived the Nazi death camps as a teenager. Read an Excerpt. This book is an experience that will change you forever. Start the gripping introduction to Elie Wiesel's Night. Oprah and Elie Wiesel Travel to Auschwitz.
Apr 1, 2020 · Answers 1. 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 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? "I don't know," I told him, even more troubled and ill at ease. "I don't know." (pg. 4) “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why ...
Nov 21, 2023 · and "Why do you cry when you pray?" Wiesel admits he does not know, and this is the start of Moishe the Beadle's endeavors to get Wiesel to think deeper and more complexly about life, the...
“Why do you weep when you pray?” he asked me, as though he had known me a long time. “I don’t know why,” I answered, greatly disturbed. The question had never entered my head. I wept because—because of something inside me that felt the need for tears. That was all I knew. “Why do you pray?” he asked me, after a moment. Why did I ...
