Elie Wiesel: Character Analysis

That is when he stumbled upon Moishe the Beadle, a lonely and poor Jew. While the Jews were not very fond of the needy, they accepted Moishe because he was quiet and he stayed out of the way. Elie and Moishe would stay in the synagogue after all the faithful had left. Moishe would often tell him, “Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him…” (pg 5).

To tell the truth, Elie’s beliefs before the Holocaust is very spiritual, godly and orthodox. He used to spend most of his time at the synagogue temple worshiping his God. Since he always cried while praying a man named Masha the Beadle asked him why he prayed and Elie’s thought it was a very strange question but he still answered him with a confused face on his look as if he had known idea what he was saying. Elie’s said why he lives and why does he breath he said again he doesn’t know.” I succeeded on my own finding a master for himself in the person of Mash the Beadle’’.

Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel is an internationally acclaimed author, teacher, and Holocaust survivor best known for Night, a memoir about his experiences during the Holocaust. He has won numerous awards for his achievements, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Medal of Liberty, and the Nobel Prize for Peace. Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928, and is currently 87 years old. He was born in Sighet, Transylvania, which is a small town in present day Romania. Having been influenced by the spiritual beliefs of his grandparents and his father’s expressions of Judaism, he pursued religious studies at a nearby yeshiva, which is a Jewish institution that focuses on the study of sacred texts.

A kid of just about thirteen he adored mulling over the riddles of the Kabbalah with Moishe the Beadle. Elie tells how all the outside Jews, including Moishe the Beadle are taken from the town by German warriors. At the point when Moishe the Beadle comes back to the town he tells how he got away from the warriors that had slaughtered all the others. Elie then happens to tell how all the individuals in the town accept Moishe the Beadle had lost his mind.elie than portrays the day the German warriors entered his town and isolate everybody into little ghettos. A couple of days after the fact they are pressed into dairy cattle autos and sent to Auschwitz death camps and later to Buna.

He meets a challenging teacher Moshe The Beadle to study Kabbalah with him and Eliezer is very encouraged by his religious intellectuality. However, Moshe tells the story about the escape from Gestapo; where Jews were tortured and killed. Town did not believed his story and ignored him. But, in 1944 Germans came to Sighet and empty the town by taking Jews to Auschwitz. Eliezer’s family is the last one to leave Sighet.

In an attempt to make the Jews lose all faith in themselves, the Anti-Semites regard the protagonist as an “ordinary object,” thus abandoning his honorable Hebrew name for “A-7713,” a mere code that Elie would be known as throughout his formidable journey. Despite the hostile treatment, Wiesel’s individuality

Eliezer speaks about the lack of communication in his early years and displays some sort of resentment towards his father’s alienation. As a young boy Eliezer studies the Talmud and Jewish mystical texts of the Cabbala, an usual study for a teenager and one that was against his fathers wishes. In 1944 the Nazi invaded Hungary, forcing all

With Moishe strong belief of God in the beginning of the book he communicated with Elie about the study of Kabbalah. However Mr. Wiesel, Elie’s father, “. . . wanted to drive the idea of studying the Kabbalah out of [Elie’s] mind . . .”(4). Elie opposes his father's wishes and “he succeed on [his] own in finding a master for [himself] in the person of Moishe the Beadle”(4). When Elie finds a master to teach him about Judaism shows how unwavering he is about his faith and learning more about it. On the other hand as the book continues Elie loses sight of his faith.

Eliezer is a young Jewish boy who studies Talmud and Kabbalah. The next day, his teacher Moishe the Beadle a group of deportees are on a train that get hijacked and everyone is taken captive. A very awful, tragic event occurs, the Gestapo (the group that hijacks the train) executes the deportees who were “used as targets” (6). Moishe survives the massacre but is very unstable and is driven to despair and cries “tears, like drop of wax” because the people do not believe him (7). There are now new laws to abide by, every Jew has to wear the yellow star and no longer has the right to perform certain acts.

He is unable to find a master who would “guide him in the studies of Kabbalah”(Wiesel, 4) because of his young age. Moishe, however, with his kindness and knowledge of the Kabbalah is willing to teach Elie and influences him in a positive way. Furthermore, Elie needed someone who would be willing to explain things to him, and Moishe, being so lonely, was happy to help Elie in his journey to find explanations for some of life’s biggest

Eliezer Weisel had a peaceful young soul, spending day and night learning Kabbalah and Talmud like if he didn’t, he’d have no reason to continue breathing. But at the age of fifteen, he was removed from his home in the Jewish ghetto abruptly, never to return again. While he and many others in his small town of Sighet were warned about the death and destruction to come, no one listened. When Eliezer Wiesel finally made it out of the dehumanizing death camps, that small worshipper who had gone in, would never come back out. Eliezer Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust; a hero.

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He is Jewish, but he wants to go deeper into his religion and learn more about it. He becomes good friends with a man named Moishe the Beadle. Moishe is very knowledgeable about the religion and he teaches Eliezer a lot. Times passes, and soon Jews are being forced to move into ghettos. The ghettos are where they are to stay until they are evacuated from their towns to go somewhere else.

In the book Eli describes him self-being happy when in the presence of Moishe the Beadle, they would study in the synagogue till late at night. Elie says “And in the course of those evenings I became convinced that Moishe the Beadle would help me enter eternity” In other words, Eli Wiesel believes Moishe