In the Speech “Nobel Lecture” by Elie Wiesel, he mentions “a Hasidic legend” that seems to just take up text space, so why would he put it in? “Suddenly the Master turned to his servant…I love this story…..illustrates the messianic expectation.” (Page 1, Paragraph 2-3) The story mostly doesn’t seem to show anything about an expectation. When Wiesel states the story about the Rabbi it seems out of place as it doesn’t seem to show anything special. All the story does is switch from the intro of the speech to the context. When considering what the story does, it would be wise to make an inference as to say the story’s true purpose was to transition from the intro to the context of the speech by unconventional means. As after this Wiesel mentions