Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of 'When Bad Things Happen to Good People,' dies at 88

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Rabbi Harold Kushner, who never strayed from answering life's most vexing questions about loss, goodness and God, and by doing so, brought comfort to people across the world, died on Friday while in hospice care in Canton, Mass. He was 88.

"He was a giant for our family and an incredibly dedicated father and grandfather who can be counted on for everything. We are gratified to know so many people are grieving with us," Kushner's daughter, Ariel Kushner Haber, told NPR.

Kushner's funeral will be held Monday at Temple Israel of Natick in Natick, Mass., where he served as a congregational rabbi for 24 years.

Kushner was born and raised in a predominately Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y. He studied at Columbia University and later obtained his rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in 1960.