What had I to thank Him for?” Elie felt that God has left him and His own people forever. The lessons Elie learns from the concentration camps are the total opposite of the lessons he was taught from the Bible during his innocent Jewish childhood. During his childhood, Elie learns that the moral of the Akedah, or the binding of Isaac, is that God demands sacrifice but is ultimately compassionate. However, when the Jews suffer at Birkenau and God is silent about it, Wiesel begins to question the very existence of God. This is when Wiesel and his fellow Jews start to lose faith because of the horrible situation they are currently in. It was not easy for Wiesel to start questioning the existence of God, or he would not have held on to his faith with so much determination. However, as time passed in the concentration camps, the meaningless suffering the Jews had to go through ended up bursting the consciousness of Elie’s seemingly invincible Jewish faith. When Elie was in front of the furnace, he noted that “For the first time I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe…was silent. What had I to thank Him for?” (Night, 31) At this moment, Elie felt outraged from the fact that God has put His own people through a living hell. …show more content…
Wiesel wants all of his readers to know that he has been questioning God for the past 20 years, but never received a satisfying answer. Wiesel strongly believes that not everything needs an answer. Sometimes it is better to not receive an answer. All Wiesel wants is that the Jewish community to know that they may rebel against God, but they should never deny God and his