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Elie was determined to practice and learn religion, and he learned with Moishe before he was sent away. When the Jews are taken away, Elie most likely had too many other things going on to focus on studying religion like before. "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 essence of divinity." (Wiesel, 5)

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Elie's father was more worried about others than his family. He discourages Elie from studying Kabbalah and wants him to focus on the basic subjects. "My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin."(Wiesel, 4)

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Elie treat religion like something to guide him and take him away from the real world. He uses it to keep himself a little more sane and to give himself hope. "Confidence soared. Suddenly we felt free of the previous nights' terror. We gave thanks to God." (Wiesel, 27)

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Elie did not interact with his father in chapter 2. "Our nerves had reached a breaking point. Our very skin was aching. It was as though madness had infected all of us. We gave up." (Wiesel, 26)

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Eli is angry at God and has little faith in religion. He feels that God choses to be silent while they suffer and that there is no reason to thank him. "For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?" (Wiesel, 33)

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Elie stays with his father who is the only one who he can rely on. Elie's father also provides advice for him. "My head was buzzing; the same thought surfacing over and over: not to be separated from my father." (Wiesel, 35)

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Elie did not have much interaction with religion, except for at the end where the boy is hanged. When the others ask where god is, Elie's answer is that god is dead and he is hanging from the gallows. "Behind me, I heard the same man asking: 'For God's sake, where is God?' And from within me, I heard a voice answer: 'Where He is? This is where—hanging here from this gallows… '" (Wiesel, 65)

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Elie asks to stay with his father, but when the tent leader's aide asks him for his shoes in exchange he refuses. Elie tries to help his father from being beaten by teaching him how to march in time but it does not work. "I decided to give my father lessons in marching in step, in keeping time. We began practicing in front of our block." (Wiesel, 55)

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Elie already no longer believes in God. He feels pity for the Akiba Drumer because if he had not lost faith he might have passed the selection. "Poor Akiba Drumer, if only he could have kept his faith in God, if only he could have considered this suffering a divine test, he would not have been swept away by the selection. But as soon
as he felt the first chinks in his faith, he lost all incentive to fight
and opened the door to death." (Wiesel, 77)

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Elie's father does not pass the first selection, and he tries gives him an inheritance which is a spoon and a knife. Elie and his father decide to leave the camp. "He felt time was running out. He was speaking rapidly, he wanted to tell me so many things. His speech became confused, his voice was choked. He knew that I had to leave in a few moments." (Wiesel, 75)

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Elie prays to God who he no longer believes in. He asks to have the strength to abandon his father like the other person's son. "And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believed. "Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu's son has done." (Wiesel, 91)

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Elie helps his father through the journey. In his heart he wants to abandon him but he can't and it helps him keep going. "My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me. He was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, desperate." (Wiesel, 86)

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Elie does not have much relationship with religion, other than that he does not believe in it anymore. " I shall not describe my life during that period. It no longer mattered. Since my father's death, nothing mattered to me anymore." (Wiesel, 113)

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Even though Elie doesn't want to take care of his father, he has to and he helps him. Elie also is angry and swears revenge at the people who hurt his father. When his father dies however, he feels relief. "I was riveted to my father's agony. My hands were aching, I was clenching them so hard. To strangle the doctor and the others! To set the whole world on fire! My father's murderers! But even the cry stuck in my throat" (Wiesel, 109)