Reflection About God

78 years ago, over seven million people were leading normal lives. They woke up in their beds, interacted with their families and friends, and followed their habitual routine. Those millions of people had something in common - they all followed the Jewish faith. When the Holocaust began, the Jews had to fight for their lives. Some were able to hide, and some fled the country. Many were forced into ghettos and concentration camps. Over six million Jews did not survive this terrible fate. Less than one million survived. Every one of their lives was irreversibly changed. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, it is revealed how dehumanization leads to loss of faith, proven by the aftermath of the Holocaust on its countless victims.

What if you were the Jew who were forced to leave their homes and their belongings behind? To work at the point of exhaustion, to wear the same thing year long, to see many people die in front of your own eyes. How would you feel? This is what was plaguing the Jews, during the war because Nazis targeted the Jews’ humanity, and slowly dehumanized them. The Nazis dehumanizing the Jews made them not believe in God plus made them give up hope.

The events of Holocaust were major developments in the religion of the Jews and their faith in God. Anger at God for his allowance of the suffering and doubts about his power to stop it came together to shatter their trust and belief in him. No one can place the blame upon the victims of the Holocaust, because these kind of events would invoke the same reaction in religiously observant people

It is a well known and obvious fact that if a boy who strongly believes in God gets starved and tortured nearly to death along with six million other Jewish people, he is going to start to lose faith in God. If God not taking action and stopping or even helping the cause and results of the Holocaust he is definitely not going to have faith in God anymore. The Holocaust was one of the most famous genocides of all time. It was started by the Nazis in Germany, and Hitler was the leader of it all. His goal was to eliminate all Jewish people like it says in Hitler's “Final Solution”, which states All Jews must be killed during the war. No exceptions!!! Elie Wiesel’s Night shows us what Elie (Eliezer) and his father went through during the Holocaust. Even though Eliezer starts his life with a lot of faith in God, all that he witnesses and suffers in the concentration camps makes him start to question whether he believes in God or if He's really there due to all the bad that is happening to not only

Isolation is defined as being far away from other places, buildings, or people; remote. Isolation can come in many different forms: physical, spiritual, emotional and mental. In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dimmesdale seems to deal with all four. When Dimmesdale sinned with Hester and the sin was as known, Dimmesdale had to take a backseat and watch her face the punishment for him which, caused him to have a guilty conscience. The guilty conscience of Dimmesdale brings him isolation to himself, to his family, to his town, and to God.

Elie Wiesel once said, “No human race is superior, no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racist make them.” Elie Wiesel was one of those Jews who could make it and survive the Holocaust. The Jews have faced one of the most gruesome crimes throughout history. The Holocaust was the genocide of millions of Jews that took place in Germany. Adolf Hitler and his racist ideology led to the death of many Jews, and this was all because of the different religion that they had. The faces of all the people who had been killed in the Holocaust can hardly be removed from many Jews’ memory. The eyes of those little kids were begging for mercy and peace. Many of them died because they were starving, and many others died

Though everyone understands why the people that suffered through the holocaust lost faith, they still don't believe that they, themselves, could lose it through other means. People lose faith everyday from different hardships that aren't even to the extent as the hardships in the Holocaust. When things go wrong in people's lives, they start to doubt themselves, what they believe in, and what is to become. "We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs." () Humans are touchy creatures that try to balance logic and belief, and when problems attack either one of those, they retract, and think their whole life through. Not everyone is extremely faithful in what they believe in, and the less ground you have, the easier it is to fall through the cracks. "Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow."

Due to the inhumane methods towards the Jews during the Holocaust, many lost their faith and commitment to Judaism. Jews were appalled that God, who was supposed to be their savior, abandoned them in a time where they needed him the most. Although many Jews kept their faith and did not question God’s mysterious ways, many did not have the same outlook. People assume that hard times strengthen people’s faith, but that was not always the case. During great tragedy's, people’s faith may disintegrate and become completely absent from their minds. Many prisoners including Elie Wiesel could not accept God’s silence and rebelled against their religious upbringing during the Holocaust.

What God would let his people be burned, suffocated to death, separated from their families, and starved to death? Many people persecuted and sent to concentration camps questioned this thought. It was near impossible to keep faith at this time of torture. They felt as if God had abandoned his people, left to suffer the cruel events of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel grew up as a faithful and deeply spiritual young person. For a person of his age, he was greatly curious by his Jewish faith, he pursued Moishe the Beadle to deepen his spiritual understanding. Upon experiencing the torture of the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel lost his faith completely. He found it impossible to believe that a God could allow his people to experience such torture. Upon surviving the Holocaust Elie Wiesel realized that faith is crucial to surviving without losing character. The hardships that Elie Wiesel faced in the concentration camps lead him to lose faith, until after when realizing it was crucial to keep faith in God despite the horrendous events of the Holocaust.

Over one million Jewish children died during the Holocaust. They were ripped out of their homes and taken away from their families, and stripped of their childhoods. Innocent lives were caught in a war that they were not able to stop. When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, he promised Germany that he would improve life their by getting rid of the one race that caused the problems, the Jews. Jews, including Jewish children, were sent to concentration camps, inspected, and if approved, were sent to work. All others would have been sent to be killed. Being sent to work did not ensure survival, children would be given very little food and water, and beaten severely, which caused their death. None of the children of the Holocaust will ever

“The fact is they know I went through hell.” -Professor Bacharach, Holocaust Survivor. Ever since many centuries ago, Jewish people were treated unfairly and unjustly according to their religion and characteristics. The Holocaust was a fearful and painful genocide because of anti-semitism throughout European countries. Up to six million Jews died in the harrowing genocide, along with the death of many other religious and ethnical groups ("Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution"). As much as a fraction of the number of Jews survived. With much grief and sorrow during the Holocaust, the survivors had to suffer the emotional and physical trauma after the event. Survivors had to face the reality of rebuilding their lives after the

The holocaust had a major effect on Judaism as a whole. This conflict between tragedy and faith is not new. Jewish history shows us that the jewish people have undergone the most terrible persecutions and genocide at the hands of many oppressors. Whether it be about the pogroms, crusades, destruction of the Temples, the jewish people have been at the brunt of the most terrible atrocities, and yet this does not shake their faith,Anti-Semitism was nothing new. This became even more evident with the unmasking of the holocaust.The philosophical question of “Shall the Judge of the earth not do justice?” applies just as much to the seemingly useless suffering of an individual as to that of six million individuals. If it could be dealt with on an individual basis before the Holocaust, why couldn 't it be dealt with in the same way afterwards? The difference is one of quantity, but the quality of the question remains the same.

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Concentration camps were horrible places filled with starvation, dangerous work, and death. After being taken out of the ghettos Jews were most often carted like caged animals to the camps. There, if not immediately sentenced to death during selection, the people were stripped of their identity and thrown into a situation no human deserves to be in. Many Jews either lost their faith or used it as a tool for survival. Many asked themselves, is there a god, or is this a test of faith? (Sheldon 1) Given

If the news was not manipulated to benefit one party’s best interests, society could manage to make choices which may make a difference to the growth of a nation. Voters can make better decisions when electing new leaders in office, people can band together to find justice for a single cause, and most importantly, people will feel more empowered citizens. As businesses drive the direction of a nation with limited coverage on stories, one's belief on a matter becomes discouraged from making changes. Thinking about the current candidates running for office. The media have exploited Donald Trump's behavior to minimize the pressing matter which include the actual principles each candidate intends to stand by as president. How does one decide who to put into office without understanding the consequences of their decision?