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This week of ELA was a quite relaxing week. We had time to make up for missing work, and read Chapter 2 of Elie Wiesel's "Night". In the story, Elie is now 16 years old, and has been taken to one of the Nazi concentration camps, alongside his family. He and his father were separated from his mother and sister, who Elie never saw again. One of the few things that we learned early last week about Elie is that he is very serious about his religion and faith, being one of his inner desires to become a religious scholar, following the footsteps of his "teacher" figure, "Moishe the Beadle", as well as Maimonides, a studier of the Kabbalah. However, he thought to himself, if God cares about the lives of these innocent people, why won't he do anything? Things like these seem to come from God, to challenge our faith, and believe in him in the toughest of times. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer says in his prayer on Christmas Day as a prisoner, "Lord, whatever this day may bring, your name be praised."
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4/24/2015 02:09:01 am
The few words you wrote really emphasized the point you were talking about.
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