Talmud

In the memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie spoke of his unforgettable past in World War II. In 1944, the town of Sighet was invaded and Elie and his family were forced out of their home. He then went to several camps within Auschwitz's fighting side by side with his father, closer with him then he ever imagined. Throughout his horrific life in the war, Elie’s identity as a Jew, a boy of innocence and ultimately his life purpose is all challenged. Elie lost his identity as an innocent child when…

“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…

How is one person capable of losing all faith in their God, after being in an extensive, deadly, and cruel circumstance? Just ask Elie Weisel. Elie Wiesel is an American Jewish writer who wrote Night based on his accounts of the Holocaust. At the age of 15, Elie, his three siblings, and his parents were all taken by Nazi forces to Sighet, a local ghetto. He was separated from his mother and sister and deported to Auschwitz. He faced many obstacles along the way to his liberation. Throughout…

There are a lot of correlations between the movie we just watched “The Chosen”, and the history of Judaism. The notion of a chosen people descended from Noah to Abraham, Moses, and David. Some examples of that are henotheism, Changing Abram’s name to Abraham, circumcision, and the Promise of Progeny. With Moses it was the covenant of law and love. David with being the “son” of God, and him being the first Messiah. The Jewish had 613 commandments while the Gentiles have 10. Being chosen means you…

During the Second World War, most of the factories related with the countries that had a role in the conflict tried to make profit by changing their production. There are numerous records of factories that created extensions of its facilities to meet the demand of those years. What was most required was military products, such as guns, tanks, and different kinds of weapons. That was a lucrative time for those who assembled the new products, innumerous factories made money and increased their…

The Chosen, the theme is that cultural expectations often influence one's decisions in life through friendships, professions, and feelings. Parenting impacts the way a child thinks and feels towards life. By Reuven's dad reminding him of what the Talmud says, it reminds him that he should give Danny a chance and hear him out. David explained to Reuven how to react in a situation like his and how it is not healthy to hold grudges (Potok 94-95). Reuven's dad…

accumulation to materialized obsession. Although the Torah forms part of the Bible and is acknowledge in the Quran, the latter two have interpreted religious texts in a way that it emphasizes on the detriments of wealth possession. Meanwhile, the Talmud has approached the subject of wealth accumulation from an opposing view. Since all Jews are obligated to study the Torah, most Jews ruled that one should devote his time onto learning, laboring and resting with equal proportions (Tamari 47). When…

Pomegranate fruit Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) is considered one of the oldest known edible fruit that is mentioned in the Koran, the Bible, the Jewish Torah, and the Babylonian Talmud as “Food of Gods” that is symbolic of plentyness, fertility and prosperity.(45) They are widely cultivated in Iran, India, and the Mediterranean countries such as Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, Spain, and Morocco.(46,47,48) The pomegranate fruit is berry-like with a leathery rind enclosing many seeds surrounded by…

Albert Einstein created a whole new universe of curiosity and discovery through research, experiments, and countless years of dedication to science. Throughout the years of his life, he faced many trials and failures, but those helped him set the foundations for many inventions and findings in the science community. Albert Einstein was an amazing scientist with a curious childhood and an extraordinary adult life, filled with discoveries and findings that ended up impacting science in several…

made the author assumed God was who allowed his people to be exterminated. However, the conflict between Elie with God as well as the test of faith was going to the end when Elie was about to let himself changed and cut off the mind of a student of Talmud, who he used to be. “But I no longer accepted God’s silence.”(Wiesel 66). Still, Elie believed in God; his faith was not really loss, but the person in him was lost. He could not accept God’s silence to his people, his faith was no longer…