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18 lip 2013 · FOR GOD’S SAKE, WHERE IS GOD? “Night” is a book by Elie Wiesel about his experience in the German concentration camps. “One day,” writes Wiesel, “as we returned from work, we saw three ...
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.”.
Wiesel’s quarrel with God assumes an unexpected dimen-sion 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 punish-ment.”.
In Night, Eliezer says that the Holocaust “murdered his God,” and he often expresses the belief that God could not exist and permit the existence of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel and Eliezer are not exactly the same, but Eliezer expresses, in most cases, the emotions that Wiesel felt at the time of the Holocaust.
Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe.
Wiesel's response to the catastrophe of God's hiddenness is derived from a Jewish traditionalism touched perhaps by Menachem Mendl. of Kotsk, one of the great Hasidic figures of the nineteenth century. Wiesel wrestles with God as He is manifest in Jewish liturgy and the.
For example, Wiesel offers a commentary on God's suffering-"God could have, should have, inter-. rupted His own suffering [as He is with the Jewish people in exile, so He. suffers with them in Auschwitz] by calling a halt to the martyrdom of in-. nocents" (105).
