Elie Wiesel's Faith

   Elie Wiesel started out very loyal and dedicated to the Lord and followed the Jewish teachings fervently while studying the Kaballah with Moishe the Beadle. However after all the torture he had gone through in such a short time after he was dedicated to his faith he already had began to question things concerning God mainly and if his faith was really true. As he also equates the change in day from night to morning with the change in him saying "I too had become a different person. The student of Talmud the child I was had been consumed by the flames. All that was left was a shape resembled me. My soul had been invaded and devoured by a black flame."
   Elie Wiesel admitted it to himself of how much he began to doubt his faith. Saying that the person he once was had been consumed by flames that tore at what he knew and excepted. As now he has began to doubt a lot of things. Even he began lying whether they are related or not however. As a relative of his Stein asked if Reizel his daughter and wife had written to them as they had fled to avoid being captured, and Stein even said the only thing keeping him going was that they may still be alive. He asked if they had written any letters to him and confirming their safety, however they had gotten no such letters so Ellie lied. Possibly because the hude dent in his faith life made him feel more morally flexible rather than sticking straight to them, however either way his intentions were very good. It even dawned on Elie that he began doubting himself and everything he believed after one single night of all this torture and sixty minutes in the freezing weather. As Elie began feeling it was hard for him to combat and strengthen such a fervent faith life if it took a single night to destroy it like this.
   However its not completely gone as later on in the chapter he says he is not denying God's existence just how well he is at absolute justice. As he is correct in feeling it is unfair of people who believed in him so fervently to be tortured so brutally. On top of that Ellie began to even feel anger towards him as when they were sanctifying his name he questioned why in the world he should do it after the torture he has been put through where he felt his God was nowhere why should he then have to sanctify him. This gotten him angrier as he even said, "The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank him for?" This once again signifies Elie Wiesel's descent from being such a dedicated person of the Lord to beginning to feel anger towards him all this change in less than a week. All because of the concentration camps.