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Meet Moishe the Beadle. He's a poor Jew in the town of Sighet (now in modern-day Romania), where our author and narrator, Eliezer Wiesel, lives. Moishe the Beadle is awkward and shy, but 12-year-old Eliezer likes him anyway. Eliezer, who's also Jewish, is very religious. He studies the Talmud and goes to the temple every night, but he also wants to study Kabbalah. Eliezer's father thinks his son is too young to learn Kabbalah, and that Kabbalah isn't something that Eliezer should s...