Rabbi Chaim Friedlander was born in Budapest, Hungary around the onset of the Second World War and emigrated to the United States in 1949 with his parents and sister.

Upon his arrival in the U.S. he entered Yeshivah Torah V'daat and pursued his secular, as well as, religious studies very seriously. At an early age he exhibited a very sharp mind and he was singled out in the yeshivah as a chariv, (a very sharp mind) like his grandfather Rabbi Zvi-Hersh Friedlander. He graduated at the age of 16 and he began to apply himself towards his Talmudical studies. At the age of 17 he was awarded his first rabbinical degree by the very well-known scholar Rabbi Kousho-Levi. He continued with his studies and subsequently began to teach. Being a very social-minded person, he spread the Lisker ideology through his frequent contacts with others. He also assisted his father, who was the Senior Rabbi, in helping people who came to seek his astute advice.

In 1979 he married four weeks before his father passed away. Upon his father's passing he assumed the position of the fifth Lisker Rabbi. He continued his father's synagogue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan but subsequently decided to move to Kew Gardens, Queens, where he felt he would be more effective in spreading his knowledge and scholarship. Thousands of people came to seek his wise advice and to listen to his Talmudical discourses, just as they did with his father.

Unfortunately this brilliant mind and life was cut short when a stroke took his life in 1995. Thousands of his loyal friend and congregants mourned his passing. To this day, the multitude of small stones on top of his monument attest to the many, many people who visit his grave regularly. This a lasting testament to his enduring memory.