Many months pass and Moishe the Beadle returns.The Jews of Sighet think it’s a shame that the foreigners are carted away, but quickly forget, clearly not seeing this as a warning for their own futures.Moishe the Beadle is actually a foreigner, so he and the others like him are packed into train cars like cattle. Then one day, the Hungarian police expel all the foreign Jews from Sighet.Eliezer confides in Moishe his desire to learn Kabbalah, and to Eliezer’s surprise, Moishe knows all about Kabbalah and starts to teach him.
They end up talking most evenings at the synagogue. Moishe the Beadle sees Eliezer crying while praying at the synagogue, and they have a kind of connection.He keeps saying to his son, "There are no Kabbalists in Sighet." Eliezer’s father thinks his son is too young to learn Kabbalah, and that Kabbalah isn’t something that Eliezer should spend his time on.He studies the Talmud and goes to the temple every night, but he also wants to study Kabbalah. Eliezer, who’s also Jewish, is very religious.Moishe the Beadle is awkward and shy, but 12-year-old Eliezer likes him anyway. He’s a poor Jew in the town of Sighet (now in modern-day Romania), where our author and narrator, Eliezer Wiesel, lives.
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