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   The response of praying and crying is a beautiful sight. Elie is thanking God for his life, and crying over all the lives that were lost. Elie carries with him all the deaths and horrors that he ...

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   Elie's oldest sisters, Hilda was the oldest. Tzipora. youngest in the family, was seven when she was killed. "... her blond hair neatly combed, her red coat over her arm: a little girl of seven. On her back a bag too heavy for her. She was clenching her teeth; she already knew it was useless to complain.

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   Why does Eliezer pray?

   • The death of the child also symbolizes the death of Eliezer’s own childhood and innocence. The suffering Eliezer sees and experiences during the Holocaust transforms his entire worldview. Before the war, he cannot imagine questioning his God. When asked by Moishe the Beadle why he prays, Eliezer replies, “Why did I pray? What a strange question.

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   Why was no one praying for the night to pass quickly?

   • No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes. There was nothing else to do but to go to bed, in the beds of those who had moved on.

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   Who was Elie Wiesel?

   • Elie Wiesel was an Auschwitz and Buchenwald survivor who, through his more than fifty books, countless speeches and op-eds, and tireless activism, became a voice for the voiceless.

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   ""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 something inside me felt the need to cry. That was all I knew. "Why do you pray?" he asked after a moment." (Wiesel 1-2).

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   For more than half an hour [the child in the noose] stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes. And we had to look him full in the face. He was still alive when I passed in front of him. His tongue was still red, his eyes were not yet glazed. Behind me, I heard the same man asking:

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   Jul 7, 2016 · “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?

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   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. I cried because because something inside me felt the need to cry. That was all I knew. Source(s) Night