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18 lip 2013 · Where is God when a child is shot in Newtown or hung in Auschwitz or killed in an American drone air strike or for that matter dies of cancer? I don’t know. There is no answer. Talk of God...
Eliezer comes to believe that a just God must not exist in a world where an innocent child can be hanged on the gallows. “Where is He?” Eliezer asks rhetorically, and then answers, “He is hanging here on this gallows.”
When, at the close of Night, Elie and the other survivors have been liberated, he is able to look in a mirror, and he observes that "A corpse stared back at me." Not only does God seem dead to...
Elie Wiesel. Eliezer " Elie " Wiesel (/ ˈɛli viːˈzɛl / EL-ee vee-ZEL or / ˈiːlaɪ ˈviːsəl / EE-ly VEE-səl; [3][4][5] Yiddish: אליעזר "אלי" װיזל, romanized: Eliezer "Eli" Vizl; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.
2 lip 2016 · Elie Wiesel Quotes on God, the Holocaust and Humanity. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, author and human rights activist passed away on Saturday at 87. Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel speaking to reporters outside the White House in Washington, May 4, 2010. Credit: Reuters.
3 paź 2024 · He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished. 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..." That night, the soup tasted of corpses.” ― Elie Wiesel, Night
25 sty 2020 · Unlike the Talmudic heretic Elisha ben Abuyah who, after witnessing the death of innocents for following divine law, proclaimed there is neither judge nor judgment, Elie Wiesel is unwilling to embrace a death of God position.