When Bad Things Happen to Good People Audiobook (Free)
- Harold S. Kushner
- Random House (Audio)
- 2000-07-05
Summary:
As a young theology student, Harold Kushner puzzled within the Publication of Job. As a small-town rabbi he counseled other people through discomfort and grief. But not until he learned that his three-year-old kid, Aaron, would die in his early teens of a rare disease did he confront among life’s most difficult queries: Where do we discover the resources to cope when tragedy attacks?
“I knew that one day I would write this book,” says Rabbi Kushner. “I would write it out of my own need to placed into words some about When Bad Things Happen to Good People of the most important things I’ve come to trust and know. And I’d write it to greatly help other people who might 1 day end up in an identical predicament. I am fundamentally a spiritual man who has been hurt by life, and I wanted to write a book that may be given to the individual who has been hurt by existence, and who understands in his center that if 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 the things that have happened for you and to people you value, and if this reserve helps you accomplish that, then I will have succeeded in distilling some blessing out of Aaron’s pain and tears.”
Since its original publication in 1981, When Bad Things Eventually Good People has taken solace and desire to millions. In his fresh preface to the anniversary model, Rabbi Kushner relates the heartwarming replies he has received during the last two decades from people who have found inspiration and comfort within these webpages.
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