https://padlet.com/sl184134/dxd5oux1x7ox Sarah Li en-us 2019-01-31 18:41:44 UTC 2019-02-28 02:49:06 UTC hello@padlet.com sl184134 https://padlet.com/sl184134/dxd5oux1x7ox/wish/326420391 Elie Wiesel - Relationship with Jewish God

Elie Wiesel is very religious in Chapter 1 because he studies the Jewish religion, its customs, and the practices of it. He is highly religious unlike his father.

"[Elie] told him how unahppy [Elie] was not to be able to find in Sighet a master to teach [Elie] the Aohar, the Kabbalistic works, the secrets of Jewish mysticism" (Wiesel, 5)
"[Elie] was up at dawn. [Elie] wanted to have time to pray before leaving" (Wiesel, 18)]]> 2019-01-31 18:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sl184134/dxd5oux1x7ox/wish/326420391 sl184134 https://padlet.com/sl184134/dxd5oux1x7ox/wish/327448482 Elie Wiesel - Relationship with Jewish God

In the second chapter, Elie Wiesel is still very religious because in the cattle car on the way to Auschwitz, he was praying to God because they heard that the concentration camp and its seemingly great conditions was where they were going and that the living conditions of the labor camps will be quite exceptional.

"We gave thanks to God [for the labor camps]" (Wiesel, 27)]]> 2019-02-04 18:06:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sl184134/dxd5oux1x7ox/wish/327448482 sl184134 https://padlet.com/sl184134/dxd5oux1x7ox/wish/328425469 Elie Wiesel - Relationship with Jewish God

In the third chapter, Elie started to have mixed feelings about the Jewish God, sometimes cursing him for allowing Elie and his fellow Jews to be brought to concentration camps, and sometimes still having some relent for the God and some kind deeds that he provided the Jewish with to pass the hard times in the concentration camps.

"Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible master of the universe" (Wiesel, 33)
"I thanked God, in an improvised prayer, for havin created mud in His infinite and sonderous universe" (Wiesel, 38)]]> 2019-02-06 18:39:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sl184134/dxd5oux1x7ox/wish/328425469 sl184134 https://padlet.com/sl184134/dxd5oux1x7ox/wish/330497341 Elie Wiesel - Relationship with Jewish God

By the end of the fourth chapter, Elie loses all faith in his Jewish God and sees him as dead. This is because he saw the little boy who was the pipel hanged in the gallows in front of everyone and to his eyes, the pipel was all that was left of his faith and hope, thus the death of him made him lose faith and hope in freedom and most importantly, God.

""'Where [God] is? This is where - hanging here from this gallows...'" (Wiesel, 65)]]> 2019-02-12 18:41:59 UTC https://padlet.com/sl184134/dxd5oux1x7ox/wish/330497341 sl184134 https://padlet.com/sl184134/dxd5oux1x7ox/wish/331308398 Elie Wiesel - Relationship with Jewish God

In the fifth chapter, Elie is still heavily against the will of God, once again because God had allowed the creation of concentration camps and the torture of out of all people, the Jews. He was mad on the day of Rosh Hashanah of why he should pray to the good deeds of God like everyone else was, what he called "brainwashed" and what point it was to pray to God in the horrid conditions of the concentration camp because help was not coming soon.

"He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves...how could [Elie] say to Him: Bless be Thou...for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar" (Wiesel, 91)]]> 2019-02-14 14:41:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sl184134/dxd5oux1x7ox/wish/331308398 sl184134 https://padlet.com/sl184134/dxd5oux1x7ox/wish/334459969 Elie Wiesel - Relationship with Jewish God

Elie regained some faith in God in this chapter as he prayed for himself to not leave his father behind. Even though Elie no longer believed in God, he still prayed because he was so desperate to keep his morals as they were forced to run away from their freedom.

"...in spite of [himself], a prayer rose to [Elie's] heart, to that God whom [he] no longer believed" (Wiesel, 50)

"Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu's son has done" (Wiesel, 91)]]> 2019-02-23 17:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sl184134/dxd5oux1x7ox/wish/334459969 sl184134 https://padlet.com/sl184134/dxd5oux1x7ox/wish/336074511 Elie Wiesel- Relationship with Jewish God

Around the end of the book, Elie still has not regained his trust in God.
He still resents god and may even resent Him more now since his father died after every other circumstance they have survived. This left Elie in distress and he was only able to put the blame on God for once again putting them through the horrid concentration camps.

"...on January 29. On my father's cot there lay another sick person. They must have taken him away before day- break and taken him to the crematorium....No prayers were said over his tomb” (Wiesel 112).]]> 2019-02-27 18:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sl184134/dxd5oux1x7ox/wish/336074511