https://padlet.com/kn178634/so1rwzr3pz91 Kalina Namikas en-us 2019-01-30 21:51:29 UTC 2019-03-18 18:44:50 UTC hello@padlet.com kn178634 https://padlet.com/kn178634/so1rwzr3pz91/wish/326062241 Elie is very pious. He believes in his religion wholeheartedly, and can't imagine not believing fully in a God. He loves God, and prays often. He studies the Talmud and wants to fully understand it eventually. The religious times he experiences often send him into tears at the wonder of it.

"'Why do you weep when you pray?' ... I wept because-because something inside me felt the need for tears" (Wiesel, 1)]]> 2019-01-30 21:53:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kn178634/so1rwzr3pz91/wish/326062241 kn178634 https://padlet.com/kn178634/so1rwzr3pz91/wish/327508866 Elie still believes fully in God. When the train arrives at Auschwitz, they gave thanks to god because they would no longer be stuck in the cattle car. He doesn't forget about his religion by any stretch, but he is more concerned with surviving and is focused on his predicament.

"We gave thanks to God" (Wiesel, 15)]]> 2019-02-04 19:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kn178634/so1rwzr3pz91/wish/327508866 kn178634 https://padlet.com/kn178634/so1rwzr3pz91/wish/328031609 Elie begins to question his religion. He wonders how the God he has always prayed to could ignore what his people are suffering. He becomes angry with those who are praying. He can't believe that his God would watch and let his people suffer. This clashes with what he has been taught about an all-loving God.

"Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank him for?" (Wiesel, 19)]]> 2019-02-05 21:19:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kn178634/so1rwzr3pz91/wish/328031609 kn178634 https://padlet.com/kn178634/so1rwzr3pz91/wish/331312092 Elie is not as concerned with praying all the time. His religion is still important, and he still sings the songs and remembers the prayers, but he is praying less in his daily life. However, he does call on God near the end of the chapter when the young pipel is hanged. He wonders where God is, when children are being hung in front of thousands of men.

"'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…'"]]> 2019-02-14 14:46:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kn178634/so1rwzr3pz91/wish/331312092 kn178634 https://padlet.com/kn178634/so1rwzr3pz91/wish/332185851 Elie loses his faith in God. All his life, he has believed in a power greater than himself. Finally, after all the suffereing he has endured, he no longer believes there is a God guiding things and protecting him.

"This day I had ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open, and I was alone--terribly alone in a world without God and without man. Without love or mercy." (Wiesel, 38)]]> 2019-02-17 23:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kn178634/so1rwzr3pz91/wish/332185851 kn178634 https://padlet.com/kn178634/so1rwzr3pz91/wish/333361776 Elie still does not really believe in a God. However, he is starting to believe again at least slightly, because he prayed to God when the Rabbi was looking for his son.

"Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never
to do what Rabbi Eliahu's son has done." (Wiesel, 91).]]> 2019-02-20 19:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kn178634/so1rwzr3pz91/wish/333361776 kn178634 https://padlet.com/kn178634/so1rwzr3pz91/wish/335072289 Elie does not consider his religion very often. His faith is all but gone, and he rarely even references it when something important happens, like when his father is dead, he doesn't even pray or say the Kaddish.

"No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory." (Wiesel, 112)]]> 2019-02-25 19:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kn178634/so1rwzr3pz91/wish/335072289