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25 sty 2020 · Wiesel’s quarrel with God assumes an unexpected dimension when he speaks about the deity as a suffering God. Citing the Sefer Ha Zohar (Book of Splendor) a central text of Jewish mysticism, Wiesel writes “God is everywhere, even in suffering and in the very heart of punishment.”.
Rebellion is a form of faith for Elie Wiesel, but only from within Judaism. In one of Night’s starkest episodes, Wiesel witnesses the hanging of three Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz, two adults and a young boy. The other prisoners are forced to march in front of the condemned. The adults die quickly, the youth lingers.
discussion of Night (Wiesel, 1982), a memoir about Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel's experiences in his home town of Sighet, Transylvania and in Nazi concentration camps. In the transcript below, students discussed whether or not Elie in the memoir lost his faith because of his traumatic experiences ("Elie" is used
In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel writes about his loss of faith and increasing disgust with humanity, recounting his experiences from the Nazi-established ghettos in his hometown of Sighet, Romania, to his migration through multiple concentration camps.
Elie Wiesel: One of the central tenets of my life is the teaching in Numbers (19:16): "Lo ta'amod al dam reakha, Do not be indifferent to the bloodshed inflicted on your fellow man." Also in the Bible, Moses rediscovers himself as a Jew and as a man when he defends a Hebrew beaten by an Egyptian and then one beaten by another Hebrew.
2 lip 2016 · I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree. (Interview to the Paris Review, 1984)
Lest there be any misunderstanding, it bears saying that Wiesel’s assertion – God is “hanging from this gallows” – cannot be reduced to Nietzsche’s “God is dead,” cited by atheists. Rather, Wiesel’s faith is rooted in Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav’s dictum: “There is no whole faith except broken faith.”
