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“From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.” Many may know the raw emotion of hurt and anguish, but how often does that anguish arise from internal conflict? In the novel Nigh ....

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.... to weep over the destruction of the Temple”(1). However, once the deportation of the ghettoes occurs, Elie’s faith begins to grow weaker. On the day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, thousands of prisoners attend the services. The air rang with cries of, “Blessed be the Name of the Eternal!” But in Elie’s mind, he wonders, Why, but why should I bless Him? Because he had thousands of children burned in His pits? Because He kept six crematories work- ing night and day, on Sundays and feast days? How could I say to Him: ‘Blessed art Thou, Eternal, Master of the Universe, Who chose us from among the races to be tort ....