Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, called America's "most famous rabbi" by the Washington Post, faults God for not saving seven children who died in a fire in Brooklyn March 21.
"We deserve better than to see seven innocent children taken from us," he writes in a column in the New York Observer.
"Why God is silent and seemingly absent in the face of so much suffering is the real question of this tragedy," he says. "These kids were innocent. Does God not promise to protect the innocent? ‘The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was humbled, and he delivered me.'" (Psalms 61:4).
Boteach is the author of 30 books and is also a TV host and public speaker. Newsweek named him one of the 50 most influential rabbis in the U.S. three years in a row and ranked him No. 6 in 2010.
He writes two syndicated columns and is an op-ed contributor to the Wall Street Journal, The Jerusalem Post and other newspapers.
A book he wrote called Kosher Jesus was called "heresy" by some rabbis including Rabbi Immanuel Schochet of Canada who said it "poses a tremendous threat to the Jewish community."
Writes Boteach in the Observer: "Our role in life should not be to offer empty platitudes about how innocent children are in heaven. Rather, we have a right to demand from God that He abide by the same values and rules that He commanded us to uphold…we cannot stop every tragedy. But He can."
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