The person who taught Elie the Kabbalah was Moishe the Beadle. Right in the beginning of the book he is introduced because he plays an important role Elie’s early life. Elie was a very religious boy. According to his own words, he was completely devoted to Judaism

I was almost thirteen and deeply observant. By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple.

One day, he asked his father to study Kabbalah, but he father would not let him. He said that Elie was too young. Moreover, he said that there were no teachers of the Kabbalah in Sighet. So, Elie went to look for his own teacher. That person was Moishe the Beadle. Elie describes him:

He was poor and lived in utter penury. As a rule, our townspeople, while they did help the needy, did not particularly like them. Moishe the Beadle was the exception.

Moishe the Beadle was amenable to Elie’s desire to learn the Kabbalah. So, they became close, and Elie started on his journey. He spent hours and end with him taking about the revelations of the Kabbalah. Elie was deeply impacted. One evening he confesses that he believed that Moishe the Beadle would help him enter eternity, the place where question and answer would become ONE.