Chaim (Halevi) Soloveitchik (Yiddish: חיים סאָלאָווייטשיק, Polish: Chaim Sołowiejczyk), also known as Chaim Brisker (1853 – 30 July 1918), was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar credited as the founder of the Brisker approach to Talmudic study within Judaism. He was also a member of the Soloveitchik dynasty, the son of Yosef Dov Soloveitchik.[citation needed]
He is also known as the Gra"ch (Hebrew: גר״ח), an abbreviation of "HaGaon Reb Chaim."
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Chaim (Halevi) Soloveitchik (Yiddish: חיים סאָלאָווייטשיק, Polish: Chaim Sołowiejczyk), also known as Chaim Brisker (1853 – 30 July 1918), was a rabbi...
Volozhin yeshiva. Chaim of Volozhin was a student of the Vilna Gaon. The Soloveitchik dynasty began with Rabbi Yosef Duber Soloveitchik known as the Beis...
non-participation in the Israeli political system. Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik was born to ChaimSoloveitchik in Valozhyn. On his mother's side, he was the grandson...
writings of ChaimSoloveitchik, Moshe Soloveichik and Joseph B. Soloveitchik. He is the second son of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein and Dr. Tovah Soloveitchik. Yitzchok...
great-grandfather for whom he is named, Rabbi ChaimSoloveitchik, who was known as the Gra"ch (Hebrew: גר״ח). Soloveitchik's four step scholarly approach to learning...
Levite's Novellae on Maimonides) is a volume of commentary by Rabbi ChaimSoloveitchik on Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah. It also contains original commentary...
drifted away from yeshiva life. A story in the biography of Rabbi ChaimSoloveitchik cites an anonymous student, presumably Bialik himself, being expelled...
between Rabbi Berlin and Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, they ended up making peace and Rabbi ChaimSoloveitchik married Rabbi Berlin's granddaughter. Rabbi...
Paneach and the writings of the Soloveitchik dynasty, including Chiddushei Rabbeinu Chaim by Rabbi ChaimSoloveitchik; works by his sons, Chiddushei HaGram...
Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik was the fifth of twelve children and the third son born to Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik and Alte Hindl, daughter of Chaim Auerbach...
Orthodox rabbi. He was born in Valozhyn, the middle son of Rabbi ChaimSoloveitchik and grandson of the Beis HaLevi. He married Pesya Feinstein, daughter...
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greatest Talmudists of the age, including Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, ChaimSoloveitchik, Joseph B. Soloveitchik (who became his disciple), Yisrael Meir Kagan,...
theoretical Talmud study, the leading Lithuanian authorities were ChaimSoloveitchik and the Brisker school; rival approaches were those of the Mir and...
value of precise definition can be found in a quote attributed to ChaimSoloveitchik: "One approach which answers three different problems is better than...
Russia, at which time his father was the rabbi of that town. Joseph Soloveitchik and Samuel Soloveichik were his older brothers. His family first moved...
the latter was alive. As a youth, Karelitz was sent to study under ChaimSoloveitchik of Brisk. He did not take to the Brisker method of study, and later...
particularly in that they were rooted styled in the method of his teacher ChaimSoloveitchik. He is known for leading Yeshivas Knesses Beis Yitzchak in Slabodka...
and Soloveitchik dynasty, his father Rabbi Yitzchak Greenblatt being close with rabbis ChaimSoloveitchik and his son Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik. After...
century, as parts of the Soloveitchik Rabbinical family veered away from their anti-Zionist tradition set by Rabbi ChaimSoloveitchik of Brisk, and adopted...
Slutsk. Soloveitchik was a grandson of Rabbi Chaim Volozhin (b. 1749) and the uncle of Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, the Beis Halevi (b. 1820). In 1870 he published...
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