Elie Wiesel Influence On Religion

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Elie Wiesel had been a devout Jew all his childhood. He prayed and studied texts everyday and began to tackle documents that were created for adults in their thirties. However, Wiesel lived through the Holocaust at the age of 15. This drastically changed his view and relation with his religion and God. Despite the immense struggles and conflicts he had to overcome, Wiesel never rejected God wholly. It didn 't matter how difficult the times were, he always had an inkling of faith left in his mind, whether he wanted to believe it or not.
Wiesel was years, even decades ahead of his time when it came to religion. When he was 13, he focused on the Talmud during the day and prayer at night; religion was his whole life (3). At the age of 15, Wiesel wanted to begin to study the Kabbalah, which is Jewish mysticism, that was also known as Zohar, a 13th century commentary on the Oral Torah. Normally, a man wouldn’t start the book until he was 30 years old: an age where a man can fully understand the text (4). Despite his father’s protest and disapproval, Wiesel began to study the Kabbalah with the help of Moishe the Beadle. Together, they stayed at the synagogue and spoke
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Wiesel prays that there were still miracles on this earth when his father was chosen in the first part of the 2nd selection to go to the crematoria (76). Regardless of what Wiesel tells himself and to God, there was always part of him that believed in God. If there wasn’t any part of Wiesel that doubted God’s existences and motives, there wouldn’t have been a fight between the two throughout the entire

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