Kabbalah

The holocaust was genocide against the Jewish race. Elie Wiesel’s memoir “Night” was a firsthand view of what the Jewish people were put through at the hands of Nazi Germany. The concentration camp system methodically debilitated the prisoners through the heartless process of dehumanization. Each prisoner of the concentration camps was stripped of everything they had ever known, leaving them feeling worthless. This forced change through a loss of faith, loss of compassion and loss of physical…

innocence and ultimately his life purpose is all challenged. Elie lost his identity as an innocent child when his role as a young boy was taken away through the atrocities of his camp. Growing up as an observant Jew Elie’s one hope was to study Kabbalah. Although, after he asked, his father he informed him that “You are too young for that. Maimonides tells…

“I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith” ( Rose Kennedy). Bereft of faith, one is merely an empty shell who strives for nothing in life. Elie Wiesel uses Night to comment on the effects of the Holocaust that cause the loss of his faith. Elie Wiesel, once a religiously dedicated child, endures anguish and suffering in the concentration camps, which leads to the wavering of his belief in God and ultimately the destruction of it, transforming him into a…

The Christians accused the Jews of using witchcraft, because of their different religious traditions. At the time, Kabbalah was a growing belief and Mysticism among Jews and used a lot of symbols which led Christians to believe that it was closely tied to Satanism (“Christian Persecution”). The Christians also accused the Jews of starting the Black Plague, and they claimed…

Think about what it would feel like being told you have to wear a particular color due to you being different. Who knew that a simple symbol of over two-thousand years ago could impact today and the way life is? Intertwined equilateral triangles is a common symbol in the Middle East and also North Africa; infact where it supposedly brings good luck. Symbols can represent many things like ideas, concepts, beliefs and feelings; furthermore they may have profound meaning for some, yet no meaning…

enduring all the pain caused by Adolf Hitler. It shows the true power of one’s voice, “The child who tells us his story here was one of God’s chosen. From the time he began to think, he lived only for God, study the Talmud, eager to be initaled into the Kabbalah, Wholly dedicated the consequence of a less visible, less striking abomination, yet the worst of all, for those of us who have faith: the death of God in the soul of a child who suddenly faces absolute evil?” (p.xix). This quote…

Elie Wiesel is a young Jewish boy who lives in Sighet which is a small town in Transylvania where he spent most of his childhood. A man name Moishe the Beadle was a poor man that became his master to teach him the Talmud and Kabbalah. Suddenly, all of the foreign Jews were expelled including his master. Moishe returned to the town to warn them about the horrible things that had happen with him and the others, but nobody listened to him thinking he had gone crazy. Soon enough the Germans came to…

Before Auschwitz, Elie was very religious, determined to know everything about his religion, even begging his father to teach him advanced material such as Kabbalah. When asked why he prayed, he responded, “Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breath?” (page 4). Religion is as important to Elie as life, as the air he breathes, which is ironic because in concentration camps he is forced…

anguish to both himself and his peers at the concentration camps, Eliezer had a completely different outlook on the people he was influenced by; he stood living in faith for God. For example, before Eliezer was ever in the camp, he strived to study Kabbalah, a Jewish tradition of interpreting the Bible, at a very young age. Eliezer quotes, “Thus began my initiation. Together we would read, over and over again, the same page of the Zohar. Not to learn it by heart but to discover within the very…

“You never know how much you really believe anything until it’s truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you” (Clive Staples Lewis). Many people question whether having faith in God does anything or if it is the difference between life and death. Elie Wiesel throughout the holocaust questioned whether or not to have faith in God, or if God's faith in him is really there. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie whose faith and belief in God was once unconditional, during the…