Moishe the Beadle is introduced as a "jack-of-all-trades" in the Jewish faith. The people around him even though "his presence bothered no one." Even as a loner he is still well thought after by the townspeople. Elie Wiesel met Moishe in 1941 when he was looking for someone to help him study the Kabbalah. Moishe rises several good questions. Why do you cry when you pray? Why do you pray? Elie find both questions equally hard to answer. He finally responds with "I don't know. I don't know." Why do WE pray? Normally it is for sometinh that we want. Rarely do we pray for genuine reasons, such as a loved one being in need of God's help. When Elie turns this question back on Moishe, he answers it like he was truely and serioulsy thought about it before. "I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions"
From that day on, the duo spoke nearly every evening about "the Kabbalah's revelations and mysteries." And Elie became convinced that "Moishe the Beadle would would help me enter the eternity, into that time when question and answer would become ONE."........... Then comes the part of the journey that is most familiar to people around the world. All the foreign Jews of Sighet were forced into cattle cars by the Hungarian police. Among them was Moishe the Beadle. Would this spell the end of Elie's study of the Kabbalah? No! One day when Elie was to enter the synagogue he spotted Moishe sitting on a bench near the entrance. But how had he been able to escape when only moments after they had finished digging their own graves, the Gestapo had open fire on them. Moishe had been wounded and left for dead. But unfortunately Moishe too began to question God. How could he have let this happen to so many innocent people?
For two years there was little to no action. Germany was sure to be defeated! Right? They were going to lose and one of the Planet's greatest dissasters was to be averted. Wrong. The Jews were being forced from their homes and shipped out. Where they to suffer the same fate as Moishe's companions two years earlier. For three long days, the comfortable ghetto was turned into a boot camp. The synagogue became a railroad station, people being loaded into boxcars. one car per eighty people. The train was on its way and Elie's journey began.....
5 comments:
Nice job Ernie Grue. Good summary of the first chapter. I didn't get to hear your opinion though. What did you think about everything that was going on? Show some emotion!
Yea Tre i agree with brian, it was a good review/summary of what happened. But i would like to know your view on this, like how you would feel if you were in their shoes. Its Good though.
Tre Gre i thought it was pretty good overall. You described the chapter in depth. The only thing i think your missing is basically your imput on what you think happened in the first chapter.
earnest i believe you did a phenomal job with your summary. It was to the point with good details. Godd details
I like it bud. I like your summary on Chapter 1. I also like how you quoted stuff. Good idea. You's got your point across real good except you need to make it into more of a commentary.
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