Closeness To Hashem - How To Be Close to God : Judaism : 9781617045677 : 1617045675 : 20 Sep 2023 : Rabbi Jacob Ades - a great scholar who is well versed in all parts of the Torah. His special personality crosses sectors in the Israeli public and he is admired and appreciated by everyone. This is how he can be seen teaching lessons to Lithuanian scholars at the Chazon Ish Kollel in Bnei Brak, or to the Sephardim at the Musayouf Synagogue in Jerusalem, or at the rabbinic center yeshiva for the national religious public, or in a pep talk for a secular public and another priest... with Rabbi Adas always adapting himself to the type of audience present. Rabbi Yaakov was born in the Beit Vagan neighborhood in Jerusalem. A member of an important and respected family of rabbis. His father is the Gaon Rabbi Yehuda Adas Shalita Rosh Yeshiva "Kol Ya'akov". His grandfather, who is named after him, is Rabbi Yaakov Adas ztzel, the judge of the Great Rabbinical Court and a member of the Chief Ra