![]() ![]() ![]() Despite his father's lack of support, Eliezer decides to study the cabbala anyway and chooses Moché as his teacher. In this passage we learn that Eliezer's father is highly regarded in the Jewish community and pays more attention to outside matters than to family ones we also learn that Eliezer has two older sisters, Hilda and Béa, and a younger one, Tzipora. In 1941, when he is twelve, the narrator, Eliezer Wiesel, wants to study the cabbala (a form of Jewish mysticism), but his father tells him that he is too young. Moché is generally well liked, works in the Hasidic synagogue, and is a very pious and humble individual. Night opens with a brief description of a poor man named Moché the Beadle, who lives in the narrator's hometown of Sighet, Transylvania (modern-day Romania at the time that the novel opens, the town is under Hungarian control). Chapter 1 "They called him Moché the Beadle" ![]()
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