According to Rav Yaakov Hillel, Hashem is broadcasting a loud and clear message: It’s time to create shalom bayis throughout Klal Yisrael
A descendant of Chacham Avraham Hillel, av beis din in Baghdad, Rav Hillel was born in India, and then moved to England where he studied in Gateshead Yeshiva. After moving to Israel, he became a close talmid of Rav Shach in Ponevezh.
At the beginning of the 1970s, Rav Hillel founded his yeshivah, Chevrat Ahavat Shalom in Geulah — named after the yeshivah of the 18th-century mekubal Rav Shalom Sharabi — where he’s taught many gedolim from both the Sephardic and Ashkenazi Torah worlds.
The expansion of the Ahavat Shalom institutions has made Rav Hillel one of the preeminent Torah teachers globally, with yeshivos, a kollel network numbering thousands of avreichim, a beis din, a national kiruv organization, and schools under his leadership.
In a no-holds-barred discussion, Rav Hillel spoke decisively about the link between the tragedy, a year of COVID, and the rampant divisions within the Torah world; told of the spur for his own growth as a bochur; and was adamant that even for someone in today’s working world, gadlus isn’t out of reach.
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