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Jewish mysticism is a belief practiced by the Jews that is often called Cabbala. This idea teaches that the mysteries of God are all around us, always within us and that the goal of religious study is to approach these mysteries and, in doing so, to better understand the mystical secrets of divine nature and of the world around us. Eliezer is a boy struggling to maintain his faith through the Holocaust. In the beginning of his experiences with the Nazi’s, Eliezer did not think of them as monsters. However as the time went on and they were taken to the camp and were treated like animals, Eliezer began to lose his faith in God. As even more time passed, Eliezer lost total faith in Him. The Jews had to experience many instances where they were stripped from their pride. They were completely humiliated at the camps. In Night, Elie Wiesel portrays how the Jews remained dignified in the face of inhuman cruelty. Eliezer’s first experience with the Nazi’s was not a horrible one. To him, they did not appear to be mean or cruel at all. “Our first impressions with the Germans were most reassuring…their attitudes toward their hosts was distant, but polite” (Wiesel 7). Eliezer and his family were not treated very badly until they