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Book Description
Offers a moving and humane approach to understanding life's windstorms.Raises many questions that will challenge your mind and test your faith regarding the ultimate questions of life and death. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title

Synopsis
A classic self-help guide by the respected rabbi explains how to find comfort and strength in the face of tragedy and understand God's role in recovery. By the author of How Good Do We Have to Be? Reissue."

Synopsis
A distinguished clergyman offers advice to people of all faiths on how to come to terms with suffering and loss and explains how a belief in God can help readers to experience comfort and understanding. Reissue. --This text refers to the paperback edition of this title

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KET0815@aol.com from Rhode Island , August 17, 1999
INSPIRING!!! EYE-OPENING!!! INSIGHTFUL!!!
I just finished reading this book by Rabbi Kushner. It was an easy book to read and understand. I recently experienced the loss of my beloved brother. He was 36 years old and a murder victim. I am a practicing Catholic and I never questioned God. However, I found myself wondering why this had to happen to us. My brother was just an innocent bystander. A victim of being at that wrong place at the wrong time. Rabbi Kushner's book opened my eyes. His book offered me comfort and let me understand my faith a little better.

I highly recommend this book to all who question God. If you find yourself asking, "How could there be a God when bad things happen to good people?" get this book ASAP!! Rabbi Kushner offers a logical and intelligent answer to this question. He makes sense. If you think you are not a religious person this book will change that.

I am passing this book onto my mother. I know this will bring her comfort.

Thank you Rabbi Kushner for this wonderful insightful book. It has helped me with my grieving!

GOD BLESS YOU!!

jesters2@msn.com from Denver, CO , August 9, 1999
Elegant in its simplicity
Elegant in its simplicity, this book will provide comfort and a sense of hope in the face of loss. Rabbi Kushner works through examples from personal experiences, including the illness and death of his son, to help develop an understanding of how we can live with the fact that bad things happen to good people. This book helped widden my understanding of prayer, relationship to community, and how God and religion can play a crucial role in the healing process. The author helped me to understand how I can pray so that the good in me lives on, even in the face of inevitable loss that is a part of life. --This text refers to the paperback edition of this title

JSBWolf1@aol.com from Allentown, PA , July 20, 1999
This should be our Bible
This book is by far the most inspiring book I've ever read. I have tried religion after religion, and none of them seemed to satisy my beliefs. This book takes an educated look at human life and death and makes sense of it, unlike the churches. After I lost my child to an abortion, I had a nervous breakdown and began blaming God. This book made me understand God's involvement in our lives in a whole new way that made perfect sense to me. To all those that belive that God takes our loved ones for His own purposes should definately read this book, as should all clergymen of all denominations, and all who have lost a loved one. This should be our universal human Bible. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title

A reader from Palm Springs, California , January 23, 1999
THANK-YOU !!! Maybe I haven't "deserved" life's unfairness
I have grown up facing my illness with an overwhelming sense of guilt and sorrow, believing that I somehow deserved this infliction. After reading this book I can begin to shed the feelings that I am somehow being punished. I've know in my head that God is a supreme loving being and now it is time for my heart to follow. I will however keep this book close by my side.

A reader from Calgary, AB, Canada , January 19, 1999
Extremely well-written, worth reading time and time again
Not being of the Jewish faith, I still find Kushner's book both insightful and healing. Another reviewer criticized the book for not providing a logical and substantiated answer to the question, "Why do bad things happen?". I believe the "answer" he provides is simply this - we don't have the answers, and we probably never will. That being said, by wallowing in our own guilt, blaming others, or dwelling on the "why", I believe Rabbi Kushner suggests that we tend to forget that there are others suffering that just need our comfort and support - they don't want our answers, just our friendship, as he did with his tragedy. For oneself, don't dwell in anger, or in denial, or in blame, because sometimes things aren't your fault, and they're not God's either - let go, and move on to the healing. If this book helps people get to that stage quicker, then I think its served its purpose.

A reader from Enid, Oklahoma , October 14, 1998
Good starter for study about the will of God!
In my opinion, Kushner questions the omnipotence of God. Some other books that touch this same subject are: "The Will of God" by Leslie Weatherhead, "When Bad Things Happen to God's People", and "Good Grief", and I think all are available here at Amazon.

Mrs. Patti Trosclair (rtcl@ih2000.net from Port Arthur. Tx , September 8, 1998
A book that offers an answer or understanding death
I lost my only child in a tragic accident, he was ten years old . I could not find the answers I needed to help me go on with my life, until I read this book. I can now count my blessings, laugh, cry and give thanks for all that I do have. I tell people that the worst is not losing a child, the worst is if you had never had them. I have 10 years of memories and a book that I dust off the cover every now and then, reread and again count my many blessings. I have passed this book along several times to others who are grieving. I highly recommend this book to everyone. Thank you for a wonderful book.

rconder@aeneas.net from Jackson, Tennessee , August 31, 1998
The book is well written and easy to understand.
I liked this book very much. The book is easy to read and to follow along. By reading the book it helped me to get through the death of a close relative. It helped me to realize that it is not God's fault. If I found a weakness in the book it is that things happen randomly. I believe that there are evil forces in our world that cause our problems. However, no book is perfect.

I would highly recommend this book to everyone. For the following reasons (1) Helps us to understand God, (2) Helps to see that it is not God's fault but that God loves us, (3) well written and (4) easy to read. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title

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