•(15 sentences) Elie is a deeply religious boy whose favorite activities are studying the Talmud and spending time at the Temple with his spiritual mentor, Moshe the Beadle. At an early age, Elie has a naïve, yet strong faith in God.
•However, it is difficult to have faith in God when one is constantly surrounded by death and inhumanity.
•In chapter 3, As Eliezer approaches the fiery pit, he feels anger towards a God who allows Nazi inhumanity to exist in this world: "For the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank Him for?" p. 42
•Although the only way to survive the concentration camps is to have faith that God will see you through, it is nearly impossible to believe in a God who allows concentration camps to exist in the first place.
•What other examples from chapter 3 can you add to display his revolt for God and his faith?
•Tell me an experience where your faith has help you go through a hard time or questioned your belief?
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Elie Wiesel is barely 15 years old and going through a lot. He has to perform his work as if he’s 18 years old and has the strength to survive. Before he was taken away and put into a camp, he was the most religious person you could ever think of. Now that he’s going through so much, he’s starting to second think his God. He wonders why his God would ever let his people suffer the way everyone is in the camps. He says that he still prays, but he doubts Gods absolute justice. Akiba Drumer tries to find ways to get everyone to still believe God by telling them things like “God is testing us. He wants to find out whether we can dominate our base instincts and kill the Satan within us. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us relentlessly, it’s a sign that He loves us all the more.” It’s pretty hard to believe that when you see that so many people are dying, especially babies. Babies are usually called a “gift from God” so why would God let the SS officers kill the babies? I believe that when God tests us, it shouldn’t have to deal with death, and if it has to come close to death, it wouldn’t involve as much death as the Holocaust has. I’m not really that religious, but I still believe there is a God. I believe that most of our actions lead our future. I feel like people depend on God to help them out, and it helps them relax and think clearly when they pray so they can fix whatever problem they are having.
There al hoping that their families are ok. He told his father that he wants to run up to the electric wire instead of being burned in the fire. All the people that were walking passed the pits were their was babes moms and dads burned just thrown in a hole. Elie Wiesel tells a ss officer that he was 18 years old and his dad told him that he was 40 years old that way they could stay together. All the Jews cant believe that all the things they saw were to inhuman or to unbelievable .they don’t under stand way they are being treated so bad. Jews think it’s a test of god to see how much faith they have in him. They all think that it is going to be over soon and that they are going to be back with their families. their all over come with fear and question way god’s punishing them. He stopped praying but never denied gods existence but he doubt his absolute justice.
There al hoping that their families are ok. He told his father that he wants to run up to the electric wire instead of being burned in the fire. All the people that were walking passed the pits were their was babes moms and dads burned just thrown in a hole. Elie Wiesel tells a ss officer that he was 18 years old and his dad told him that he was 40 years old that way they could stay together. All the Jews cant believe that all the things they saw were to inhuman or to unbelievable .they don’t under stand way they are being treated so bad. Jews think it’s a test of god to see how much faith they have in him. They all think that it is going to be over soon and that they are going to be back with their families. their all over come with fear and question way god’s punishing them. He stopped praying but never denied gods existence but he doubt his absolute justice.
There al hoping that their families are ok. He told his father that he wants to run up to the electric wire instead of being burned in the fire. All the people that were walking passed the pits were their was babes moms and dads burned just thrown in a hole. Elie Wiesel tells a ss officer that he was 18 years old and his dad told him that he was 40 years old that way they could stay together. All the Jews cant believe that all the things they saw were to inhuman or to unbelievable .they don’t under stand way they are being treated so bad. Jews think it’s a test of god to see how much faith they have in him. They all think that it is going to be over soon and that they are going to be back with their families. their all over come with fear and question way god’s punishing them. He stopped praying but never denied gods existence but he doubt his absolute justice.
In chapter three there was an example were they kind of get their faith back, (we had already lived through so much that night we thought nothing could frighten us anymore). This kind of tells me that they had lost their faith but they figure that there was no need to be afraid or not to have faith again. From my own experiences there was a tuff time were I felt that I have lost my faith . It was when my little brother had been poison, at the time I didn’t know what to do and the worst things came to my mind I was loosing my mind thinking that he wasn’t going to make to the hospital. So what I did with lots of faith was pray to god ,for my little brother to be okay. When I have already pray, the doctors had told us that everything was find and that he was just going to be on medicine for one month, when I had heard this news I had even more faith in god because he had heard my praying . So i thank god for everyday of my life all the negative and positve things that happened to me .
Nearing Ellie time of death he wrote, “for the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me . Why should I bless his name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the all-powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank him for?”. I realy wanted to put this in because he is strong in his faith and this may be the first time he has ever questioned God. This marked the decent that camp Auschuwitz started in his faith and his change in character. Though he is extremely angry at God when faced with death as he was presented in front of the fire he wrote. “In spite of myself the words formed themselves and issued a whisper from my lips: Yitgadal veyitkadach shme rada… May His name be blessed and magnified.”. This signified to me that he is still very religious even in the face of death he didn’t curse him but he uttered a short prayer the prayer of the dead and waited for the push. Of course he wasn’t killed but this showed he still believes in God. “I thanked god in an improvised prayer for having created mud in His infinite and wonderful universe.” He sees all these people being beaten for their shoes, he has relatively new shoes and praises God for the mud that he was standing in, this shows that he still sees God in the little things and praises him for even the smallest of miracles that would be magnified when in such an inhumane situation. “I did not deny God’s existence, but I doubted his absolute justice.” This was another blow to his faith as he sees these cruelty and God not striking them down with an immediate vengeance he has to question is God really in control of this justice on earth .
My faith is constantly tempted with the will of the outside world and I sometimes surcome to some but I hope to always stand with faith in hand and never fully stray form the path that I have chosen and not the one I want.
“But i had ceased to pray. How I sympathized with job! I did not deny Gods existence, but I doubted His absolute justice”.
“…I did not deny God’s existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.” People were scared and they had something to be scared of. People just walking around and killing people who wouldn’t listen to them Germans. I think that if I would have been in their position I probably would have given up on my faith because of the way I think. There might have been people who might have been killed and still believed in god, or not just believed in him but believed he was doing this for a reason and he wasn’t just trying to kill all these people for nothing. Maybe many people thought this was just a test of god, or something like a lesson. Many people could not handle all this going on and then just keep believing in god as a good person. One of the times that I have had doubts about my god is when my dad was in the hospital. My dad was about to die. I was really scared he was going to die. All hope seemed gone, I didn’t even try praying anymore, I thought it was worthless, or useless. I knew that if he died though it was because that’s what god would have wanted but I didn’t think the best of him at that moment. I guess maybe some people just think of god when they are in trouble or they might want something really bad. Its just the way it works.
Eli had pass trough a lot of hard stuff on his early age. He thinks why god is permitting this to them and let them suffer a lot. In one sentences he says may his name be bless and magnified my heart was bursting he mean why he will believe in him if he is letting him suffer. I understand why he feels like this because of everything he has been trough. In one moment one of the SS did something to his father just because he ask something nice to him. At that moment I felt that Eli wanted to do something to that SS. I had never been in a situation where I had not believe in god probably because I have never be in hard moments like that.
Theres been a couple of times my faith was tested. In fact i think that everyday of everyone's life there faith is tested. At least once in one way shape or form. One time i did something bad and i prayed to god to not let me get caught, but i got caught. I questioned my religion asking myself if there really is a god. Then i said that God's not there because i got caught. I got locked up and did a little time but it was while i was in where i really feel free. There's less reason for trouble. Just mind your own business and your time will go quick and you'll wont have that much problems.
Elie is still a little kid he is going though things that we wouldn’t even think of. Before the war started he was the most religious person that you would meet. He loved his faith till he saw all the things that are going in the war. He couldn’t believe that god could let their be people that murdered and manicured all those innocent people. He started to think that if their was even a god. If their was a god to give hem a sign that there is a god. he never got a sign but still he continues to have faith. That’s really hard to do if your in his shoes and having to go through all that suffering. He’s ben beaten nearly to death and still want’s to keep living that some thig hard to do . I never really believed in the hole thing about god because it’s just way to boring. So I don’t have any thing to really say about god. I don’t believe in that hole spiritual thing it just doesn’t really appeal me.
Elie Wiesel tells a ss officer that he was 18 years old and his dad told him that he was 40 years old that way they could stay together. All the Jews cant believe that all the things they saw were to inhuman or to unbelievable . I thanked god in an improvised prayer for having created mud in His infinite and wonderful universe.” He sees all these people being beaten for their shoes, he has relatively new shoes and praises God for the mud that he was standing in, this shows that he still sees God in the little things and praises him for even the smallest of miracles that would be magnified when in such an inhumane situation. didn’t think the best of him at that moment. I guess maybe some people just think of god when they are in trouble or they might want something really bad. Its just the way it works.
elie says to himself that its difficult to believe in god when god lets this stuff happen to him and his people. He also pretended that his mother and sister are still alive doubting that they are ok. Elie still thanks god when he says “thank god for creating mud so that they did not see his shoes”. he still believes in god. Elie still has much faith for example he prays how he sympathizes with a job. But at the same time doubts his absolute justice. Others believe god is testing them and say that they must defeat the Satan within. They think there relentless punishment is a sign that god loves them more. He was also angry at god when he was placed in front of the fire with the smell of death. Over all he believes in god but he sees his absence little bit odd.
A time I questioned my believes was when I seen a lot of hypocrisy among the catholic church and its supporters. This made me question things. The church has many “rules” but I seen every single one broken. The religion has changed and so have its supporters. This struck me as most arrogant. It made me doubt my faith.
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