Editing Chaim Soloveitchik (section)

==== Regarding Opposition to Chassidus ====
Rabbi Chaim was a grandson of the Gaon Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, who was the only student of the Vilna Gaon who did not participate in the gatherings organized by the Misnagdim against the camp of the friends of Hashem of the Baal Shem Tov and his disciples, and did not take part in any of the steps they plotted against them. When Rabbi Chaim of Brisk was later asked about his association with Chassidim despite the war against them by the Vilna Gaon and his disciples, he said: During the dispute with the Chassidim, there were two camps among the Misnagdim; those who sought the truth and eventually found it, and on the other hand, those who sought to stir up strife. From the descendants of the latter, one must keep distance as from fire.

Rabbi Chaim of Brisk passed away in the year 5678 (1918), and was buried next to his wife's grandfather, the Netziv of Volozhin.