How Did Eliezer's Beliefs Change Throughout The Book Night

Eliezer at the start of the book was a very Religious young man and after his time in camp that all changed. Eliezer even begs his father to find him a master of Kabbalah, “You are too young for that. Maimonides tells us that one must be thirty before venturing into the world of mysticism, a world fraught with peril. First, you must study basic subjects, those you are able to comprehend.”(4) This shows that Eliezer is in love with studying his Religion, this is something that a devout student would do. Eliezer’s father tried to push the idea of studying Kabbalah from his son's mind, “There are no Kabbalists in Sighet.”(4) Eliezer was determined to study the mysterious ways of Kabbalah and he found Moishe the Beadle to help him, “And Moishe
He is not the devout student that he once was, he has begun to question God and why he is letting this happen. “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?”(33) “Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.”(45) These two pieces of evidence show us how Eliezer is starting to change his views on God. Even though Eliezer still believes in God he is still being deeply affected by his experiences in camp because he feels that he doesn’t understand God anymore and why he should sanctify His
This book is a reminder of the absolute evil that the Jewish people faced and it’s a book that everyone should read and never forget. Night is a reminder of what we can’t allow to ever happen again. The last few sentences of the book really gets me, “One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.”(115) I feel like I can relate to Eliezer here, I feel like something similar has happened to me in my life. I myself am not a very Religious person, but I do believe in God, I just don’t let it run my life like some people do. This past year has been the hardest of my life and I understand why Eliezer lost his faith in God, I feel that I have as well, I just don’t understand why he does the things he does. My family has been in so much pain this past year having to deal with the court system telling us that our abusive father gets to stay in our lives and has as much say to us as our Mother. Before the verdict my sisters prayed and prayed that he wouldn’t get to see us ever again and he does, we don’t understand why God won’t help us, we still try to pray to him, but it doesn’t help, at times we feel abandoned by him, so I understand why