Career
As a youngster, he learned in Yeshivas Slabodka in Bnei Brak and eventually made his way to Yeshivas Mir in Jerusalem, where he became a student of Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz. Eventually, Rabbi Chaim Kamil accepted the role of Rosh Yeshiva in Ofakim and along with Rabbi Shimshon Dovid Pincus, the communal Rabbi there, helped facilitate the growth of the Jewish community of Ofakim. In addition to his duties in his own Yeshiva, Rabbi Kamil also delivered weekly Talmudic lectures in the Yeshiva at Tifrach, Israel.
Many of Rabbi Kamil"s Musar-oriented lectures have been published under the name "Imrei Chaim".