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Rav Chaim’s stories aren’t about moifsim. They are about Torah. For the last decade of his life, knew more than (probably) any individual alive. People would come to him with shaylos about rare situations and he would immediately answer by pointing out where in poskim this was discussed before. There wasn’t a piece of Shas he couldn’t immediately recall. And he was pashut in that regard.
Everything to him was about Torah and Avodah. When people would ask for eitzas his answer was always to daven and learn. He never worried about the future because he always had full bitachon that Moshiach is just around the corner. He was simply baffled sometimes when people didn’t grasp that “Why does it matter who to vote for? Moshiach is coming!”
Once after an anti-Semitic attack in a Yeshiva, the Lakewood Rosh Yeshivos asked him what they Yeshiva can do to protect themselves. He said that they don’t need protection because everyone is learning. They were forced to admit that perhaps not everyone is learning all the time, and people sometimes take phone calls from their seats in the Batei Midrashim. This upset him greatly and he said that it made a hole in the protective barrier so the Yeshiva may need physical protection.