In Elie Wiesel's, Night, Eliezer's struggle with his faith is a conflict. Eliezer's faith is a part of his studies in Jewish mysticism which teach that God is everywhere in the world, that nothing exists without God. Eliezer has grown up believing that everything on Earth reflects God's holiness and power. His faith is grounded in the idea that God is everywhere during the novel. At certain moments, like during his first night in the camp and during the hanging of the pipel, Eliezer grapples with his faith. Eliezer's faith is irreparably shaken by the cruelty and evil he witnesses during the Holocaust. Only in the lowest moments of his faith does he turn his back on God, but even when he says he has given up on God completely, Wiesel's constant use of religious metaphors contradict Eliezer's true beliefs. Eliezer's struggle to maintain faith in a God is tested throughout the novel. .
Eliezer loses faith and regains faith during certain situations. At the beginning of the novel when his faith in God is questioned by Moshe the Beadle, about why he prays to God, he answers, "Why did I pray? Why did I live? Why did I breathe?" (pg 2). His belief in an almighty God is unconditional, and he cant imagine living without faith but his faith is shaken throughout the holocaust. "I had new shoes myself. But as they were coated with a thick layer of mud, no one had noticed them. I thanked God, in an improvised prayer, for having created mud in His infinite and wonderful universe." (pg 35). This quote states that Eliezer is believing that God is providing him with help and courage to make it through this horrible time. Eliezer regains some of his faith in God .
because he feels God is aiding him. "Some talked of God, of his mysterious ways, of the sins of the Jewish people, and of their future deliverance. But I had ceased to pray. How I sympathized with Job! I did not deny God's existence, but I doubted His absolute.
