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Rabbi Harold S. Kushner ’55,a distinguished congregational leader whose best-selling books brought comfort and solace to millions across religions, died on April 28, 2023.

He was 88.

Kushner’s son, Aaron, was diagnosed at age 3 with a rare aging disease, progeria. He weighed only 25 pounds and was as tall as a 3-year-old when he died in 1977, two days after his 14th birthday. Kushner wrestled with the question, “Can I, in good faith, continue to teach people that the world is good, and that a kind and loving God is responsible for what happens in it?”

Kushner’s response was to write When Bad Things Happen to Good People (1981), contending that bad things happen to good people because God is endowed with unlimited love and justice, but exercises only finite power to prevent evil.

“Like a lot of children who feel they’re going to die soon, he was afraid he would be forgotten because he didn’t live long enough