Ashkenazi haredi #2 Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky was asked why so many bad things – deaths of haredi children in a bizarre pesticide accident, a haredi family in a gas explosion, deaths of young kollel students, and other bizarre injuries and illnesses – have happened recently. Kanievsky, no stranger to theodicy, was quick to answer.
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky
Senior Haredi Rabbi Says Recent Deaths Of Haredi Children Caused By “Insulting Senior Haredi Rabbis”
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Ashkenazi haredi #2 Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky was asked why so many bad things – deaths of haredi children in a bizarre pesticide accident, a haredi family in a gas explosion, deaths of young kollel students, and other bizarre injuries and illnesses – have happened recently.
Kanievsky, no stranger to theodicy, reportedly responded that “until the messiah arrives, [in general] there will be horrible troubles, but the tragedies that recently happened were [specifically] caused by insulting Gedolei Yisrael [leading senior haredi rabbis].”