The Search for Faith

The story of Moshe Yosef Daum and Fela Nussbaum in the story "Holocaust Survivors: The search for Faith" and "The Book of Job" are both alike and different in certain ways. Both stories are similar in the sense that God is being question about his faith by someone. In Moshe Yosef Daum and Fela Nussbaum's story Fela always questions whether God is actually there for them. She wonders why God lets this terrible tragedy happen. In the story it mentions, "If God did so many miracles during biblical times, then why hadn’t she seen any such miracles during the holocaust." This is similar to Jobs wife in the Book of Job she always asks Job why is God doing this to you? She doesn't have as much faith in God as God continues to to true Job. These two stories are also similar because in both the Men don't give up. For example in the holocaust story Moshe always talks about the fact that there any survivors is a miracle God gave them. In the book of Job, Job doesn't sin God, he held his faith even when his wife questioned it. The main difference in these stories is that in The Book of Job God makes Job suffer, not other people. God questions Jobs faith so he makes him miserable. In the holocaust story God isn't the one making Moshe and Fela suffer, it is the Nazis. In this story they question God and if he really has faith. The Nazis don't torture the Jews to see if they have faith, they do it to tot rue them because they don't like the Jews. In the Book of Job God has faith in Job but puts him to test because of Satan who makes God question Jobs faith, even though Job is an amazing person.