Jewish are devoted in their cultural beliefs, submitting their selves every day in synagogue: an assembly or congregation of Jews for the purpose of religious worship ("Synagogue"). They believe that God the Almighty will protect all the humankind, as long as their faith in him are substantial. Just like a young child of Sighet named Eliezer, he was fully devoted into studying Kabbalah. He goes to synagogue every night to learn Kabbalah and eager to look for a master to teach him the world of mystic, though his father opposed his idea. Eliezer, along with the Jewish people, was a great worshiper of God and believed that their faith will not be shaken by any means of distraction. Until one day, when Nazi's took the authority to capture all Jews (including Eliezer and his family), to a place where they believe God's presence does not exist in the concentration camp. This is the beginning that will measure Eliezer's faith to God and to himself, which will transform him from a devoted child of Kabbalah to furious and rebellious son of God.
Eliezer never once thought that the doom day will come, that will destroy his belief in God upon arrival at the concentration camp. As he walk towards the crematoria and encountered the Angel of Death, he felt anger within him and started to resent God, who he thought to choose to be silent while the humankind are in suffer. Aside from that, he has witnessed the cruelty and vagueness to punish innocent children and elders that was chosen to be executed, and burned alive until their bodies turned into ashes. Though he survived from the selection, this memory took his faith and beliefs. He said: .
Never Shall I forget the smoke.
Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw .
transformed into smoke under a silent sky.
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the .
In Elie Wiesel's, Night, Eliezer's struggle with his faith is a conflict. ... Eliezer's struggle to maintain faith in a God is tested throughout the novel. Eliezer loses faith and regains faith during certain situations. ... The suffering Eliezer experiences during the Holocaust changes his entire view in his faith. ... Eliezer's faith in God is tested through his experience at the concentration camps. ...
They thought it must be a test. "God is testing us. ... But sooner or later, the seeming meaninglessness of the suffering his people endured had to burst into the consciousness of his seemingly indomitable Jewish faith. ... You will find the true answers, Eliezer, only within yourself!'' ... The pain and suffering that we know took place, is in dark contrast to what we would have thought possible in the presence of our God; and anyone who comes in contact with these horrors will be forever shaken in his present faith. ...
