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'''Rabbi Chaim HaLevi Soloveitchik''' (known as Reb Chaim of Brisk or Reb Chaim Brisker, 16 Adar 5613 - 21 Menachem Av 5678) was one of the greatest rabbinic figures of the previous generation, from the rabbinic Brisk family, and the founder of the well-known learning method - the Brisker method.

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[[File:Chaim Soloveitchik.JPG|thumb|Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik]]

== Life History ==

Rabbi Chaim was born in 5613 (1853) to his father Rabbi Yosef Dov HaLevi (Rabbi Yoshe Ber) Soloveitchik, the "Beis HaLevi," who was one of the great Torah leaders of his generation. In his youth, he learned with the Rogatchover Gaon (who came to study with his father, the "Beis HaLevi"). He studied at the Volozhin Yeshiva, and when he came of age, the Netziv of Volozhin, who served as the head of the yeshiva, took him as a son-in-law for his granddaughter (the daughter of his son-in-law Rabbi Raphael Shapira, who served alongside him as the assistant Rosh Yeshiva of Volozhin and later became the Rosh Yeshiva and head of the Beis Din of Volozhin). After his marriage, he went to Slutsk following his father who was forced to leave the yeshiva. <ref>He sent a copy of these letters to his son, the Rebbe Rayatz, with an accompanying letter to him - from the 27th of Menachem Av 5668 (1908) - (printed in Igros Kodesh Vol. 4, p. 316).</ref>However, he returned to the yeshiva in 5633 (1873). At the age of 27, he was appointed as a teacher in the yeshiva and as the assistant to the Rosh Yeshiva. He was buried near his wife's grandfather, the Netziv, in the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw.

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 '''Rabbi Chaim HaLevi Soloveitchik''' (known as Reb Chaim of Brisk or Reb Chaim Brisker, 16 Adar 5613 - 21 Menachem Av 5678) was one of the greatest rabbinic figures of the previous generation, from the rabbinic Brisk family, and the founder of the well-known learning method - the Brisker method.
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 == Life History ==
 Rabbi Chaim was born in 5613 (1853) to his father Rabbi Yosef Dov HaLevi (Rabbi Yoshe Ber) Soloveitchik, the "Beis HaLevi," who was one of the great Torah leaders of his generation. In his youth, he learned with the Rogatchover Gaon (who came to study with his father, the "Beis HaLevi"). He studied at the Volozhin Yeshiva, and when he came of age, the Netziv of Volozhin, who served as the head of the yeshiva, took him as a son-in-law for his granddaughter (the daughter of his son-in-law Rabbi Raphael Shapira, who served alongside him as the assistant Rosh Yeshiva of Volozhin and later became the Rosh Yeshiva and head of the Beis Din of Volozhin). After his marriage, he went to Slutsk following his father who was forced to leave the yeshiva. <ref>He sent a copy of these letters to his son, the Rebbe Rayatz, with an accompanying letter to him - from the 27th of Menachem Av 5668 (1908) - (printed in Igros Kodesh Vol. 4, p. 316).</ref>However, he returned to the yeshiva in 5633 (1873). At the age of 27, he was appointed as a teacher in the yeshiva and as the assistant to the Rosh Yeshiva. He was buried near his wife's grandfather, the Netziv, in the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw.