The story of Moshe Yosef Daum and Fela Nussbaum is similar to that of Job. This is because in the story of Job, he had views on God that many other people did not. He feared God and looked at his actions in a bad way, rather than looking up to God constantly and viewing him as a wonderful figure. In Holocaust Survivors: The Search for Faith, Menachem Daum describes how he cannot believe that a God who allowed the tragedy of the Holocaust to occur cannot possibly be God, “A God who limits himself to actions that we humans can understand couldn’t possibly be God.” Daum's mother, Fela approached this by questioning why God stood silently while the Holocaust was taking place and her family was in the midst of destruction. God was supposed to be someone who made the world better and did not let things such as the Holocaust happen. However, people like Menachem and his parents found it hard to believe that, just like Job. Although these two stories share the same ideas they also are different. On one hand, Job fears God because he is very powerful and can punish anyone he wants very easily. Job is intimidated by God and was never able to see God as perfect. On the other hand Menachem and his parents had higher expectations. In their religion it is believed that God is the most fantastic and he is capable of all great things. Their expectations changed after God basically betrayed them.
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