As a theology student, Harold Kushner puzzled within the Reserve of Job. Being a small-town rabbi he counseled other people through discomfort and grief. However, not until he found that his three-year-old boy, Aaron, would die in his early teens of a rare disease do he confront among life’s most challenging queries: Where do we find the resources to deal when tragedy attacks?

“I knew that 1 day I’d write this book,” says Rabbi Kushner. “I’d compose it out of my very own need to put into words some about When Poor Things Eventually Good People of the very most important things I’ve come to believe and understand. And I’d write it to help others who might 1 day end up in an identical predicament. I am fundamentally a spiritual man who has been harm by existence, and I needed to write a book that might be given to the person that has been harm by lifestyle, and who knows in his center that when there is justice in the world, he deserved better . . If you are such a person, if you wish to have confidence in God’s goodness and fairness but find it hard due to things that possess happened for you and to people you value, and if this publication helps you do this, then I will have been successful in distilling some blessing out of Aaron’s discomfort and tears.”

Since its original publication in 1981, When Bad Things Happen to Good People has taken solace and desire to millions. In his fresh preface to this anniversary edition, Rabbi Kushner relates the heartwarming responses he has received over the last 2 decades from people who have found motivation and comfort within these pages.