Family
His son Yitzchak took over the leadership of the Yeshiva upon his father's death in 1821. Yitzchak's daughter Rivka was married to Rabbi Eliezer Yitzchak Fried, her first cousin. (Eliezer Yitzchak's mother Esther was Yitzchak's sister.) Another of Yitzchak's daughters married Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin. Among Rabbi Chaim's descendants are the Soloveitchik family.
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