Group Reader Response LC#1

When the Jews were in a panic they didn't over react like how people would do nowadays instead they put trust into what the people were telling them to do, they didn't know what was going to happen so they just followed. Their faith is what kept them going.
Dialectical Journal Entries
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• "My father was a cultured, rather unsentimental man. There was never any display of emothing, even at home. He was more concerned with others than with his own family."

His father was never really there for him when he needed help with something or to guide him through his faith. And this quote states the beginning of his faith.

• "It was him that my initiation began. We would read together, ten times over, the same page of the Zohar."

Since the father didn't have the time to teach him or guide him through his faith he went to someone that wanted to actually help him.

• "Time passed very quickly. It was already four o'clock in the morning. My father ran to right and left, exhausted, comforting friends, running to the Jewish Council to see if the edict had been revoked in the meantime."

 The father had other business to attend to, seeing if every one was okay.

• "Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live."

This was the time when he felt like if his faith was going to power through this. He was preparing himself for what's going to happen to him and his family.

• "Those absent no longer touched even the surface of our memories. We still spoke of them-who knows what may have become of them-but we had little concern for their fate."

I think these quotes are important because it states how he feels about his faith and what his faith goes through while they are going through all of these trials and struggles.