Faith in Night1
Faith, it is what some people grasp on to in the time of despair. For Elie Wiesel faith was a hard thing to keep a hold of. Elie was in some situations that made him lose his faith in God. After the experiences Elie lived through will he ever regain his faith for God? In a recent interview Elie said, “I come from a small city somewhere in Eastern Europe. I come from a place where every Jew was drunk with God, those whose faith was burning as was burning the vision of the first Jew in history”. As a young child Elie was eager to learn of religion, starting with the studies of the Cabbala, which his father thought he was too young to learn. Elie’s father was also a religious man and many people in the community looked up to him. With a combination of home and school, Elie learned from an early age to have a belief in God. “We had to go to school, so we went to school too, but I received the main impact from my religious schools as a child. We studied the five books of Moses (the Pentateuch) and then, again, Talmud and Hasidic stories. At home we didn't study the prophets that much. My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud” (inte
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Approximate Word count = 1028
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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