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    Learning about his Jewish religion is one of the things he loved most. He loved to study and learn about the Kabbalah with Moishe the Beadle. Elie Wiesel was living a good life as a Jewish boy until that one time when his whole life changed forever, that night. It wasn’t something that they were expecting because they just thought that Moishe the Beadle was going mad when he was explaining to them about the concentration camp. Elie Wiesel knew right away when his father came through the door and…

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    Night Research Paper

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    I became convinced that Moise the Beadle would help me enter eternity, into that time when question and answer would become ONE.” (Wiesel 5). Very early in the story, Elie is in touch with his faith and the Kabbalah. As time went on, Elie realized there might not be an end to this misery, so he started to blame God. He cannot figure out why He is doing this to so many innocent people. Elie has to remember that there does not have to be reasoning behind what…

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    multiple people change. One of his relationships that change is his relationship with his father. In the beginning before they had went to the concentration camps, Elie and his father’s relationship is difficult. His father tells him he can not study Kabbalah. Elie says his father is also very distant when it comes to sharing his feelings with his family. When they are getting off the train and going into the camps, Elie wants to stay with his father. He does not want to get separated from him…

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    and his father’s liberal expressions of Judaism. His father was named Shlomo Wiesel and his mother Sarah who owned a grocery store. Wiesel’s father encouraged Elie to have a strong sense in humanism while his mother wanted him to study Torah and Kabbalah. Elie’s grew up speaking Yiddish at home with a community that was based upon…

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    seen throughout the book and as it begins to weary, he manages to stay put. Before his dismissal into the Concentration Camps, Eliezer was faithful to God; Faithful enough that he sought for a mentor to learn more about his religion(Kabbalah).…

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    stayed out of people’s way and his presence did not border anyone. He wasn’t seen always. Elie Wiesel met him in 1941 when he was 12. Elie Wiesel studied by day and by night he went to the synagogue. He was an observant kid and he wanted to study the Kabbalah, which was the ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the Bible. Moshe The Beadle helped him study everytime they saw each other.Moshe the Beadle was expelled when all foreign jews were expelled from sighet. After days and…

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    of its interesting history, as well as its symbolism in the Alchemist and other books. To begin with the philosopher’s stone was discovered by Nicholas Flamel. He is a French alchemist born in the 14th century. In the year 1382 Flamel decoded the Kabbalah which resulted in him finding the secret of the philosopher’s stone. So far there have been no accounts of the stone being legitimate, but legend has it that the stone made Flamel immortal, and he is living somewhere in secret. Upon discovery,…

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    pg 16 Oldest of the monotheistic religions, Judaism like Christianity considers Bible as its religious scripture which is an anthology, an assortment of writings of different writers belonging to different times. 'Then the lord God formed man out of the dust on ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and became a living being, (genesis 2:7) shapes the form of Adam from the clay then breathes into him the 'breath of life' so…

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    Elie Wiesel Faith

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    through as he goes through a concentration camp, named Auschwitz. Elie’s faith has changed drastically throughout the beginning, middle, and the end of the novel, Night. In the beginning of the novel, Elie was very faithful to God. He studied the Kabbalah and visited the Synagogue almost every day. He even prayed so deeply, he cried while doing it. He thought nothing could go wrong with God by his side. In chapter one, Elie states, “By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the…

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    tyrannized by the systems in charge. Elie from the Kamal 2 novel Night starts of as an innocent young child who wants to gain knowledge about his religion. Ellie states, “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 Beadle” (Wiesel 4). This shows that despite resistance from his father, Elie wanted to quench his thirst for knowledge and be known as an…

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