Elie Wiesel's Faith

I found it very hard to believe that a kid who cried while praying would ever lose sense in their faith. However, I guess witnessing death everyday would be an easy way to blame losing your faith. Elie Wiesel was the one kid to cry while praying to God. He was so in love with his faith that he wanted to study more about it every day. He had to go find someone to teach the Kabbalah to him, because his father thought he was to young. However, since he was so into his faith, he wanted to know everything about it. He had spent his entire life knowing that he could trust his faith, that his people should trust in their faith. They should believe that God is watching over them, protecting them, and keeping them out of harm's way. Elie Wiesel or anyone would be able to predict what would happen to them and their faith in the years that the Nazis were in power. They thought that the words that the Nazis were saying would never come true, and their God would save them if any harm did come to them. They would never have thought that their God would abandon them and leave them to die along with millions of others. Before everyone would be a strong believer in the Jewish faith, but after the Holocaust, it left many people wondering if their really is a God.

Elie Wiesel went from crying while he prayed, to questioning if there really is a God. Elie Wiesel had seen how people had changed throughout their time at Auschwitz, and he was thinking that many people had lost their faith throughout the process, because they had lost their sense of hope and trust in God. They had seen the many deaths that had happened, and they would question if a God like theirs would just let his people die brutally like that. Many people were forced to put dead bodies into crematories. Some people claimed to have put their own family members in the fires that would turn their bodies to ash. Elie Wiesel went from crying for his faith to barely believing in a God. Throughout all the dead and tragedy that he had seen, he would barely be able to think that there is even a possibility of a God. Elie says that he will never forget the flames that consumed his faith forever. The question is how could one person turn from his faith in a matter of a short period of time? How could you turn from your faith, when before you were feeling so strongly about your faith? I think that the only answer is the Holocaust. The only thing that could make you change your mind in a small matter of time is death, and the Holocaust is full of death. The Holocaust caused many people, besides Elie Wiesel, to lose their faith and a sense of direction for their life.