The Brisker Rav was known for following many “chumras”. Once his talmidim saw him drinking outside of the Succah on Soccos. They asked him isn’t it a b’feirush inyan to not eat or drink anything even a glass of water outside of the Succah. He answered that that is only a chumra and he doesn’t follow chumras. The things that he does that people think of as chumras he does because there is a real safek. Only in the case of a safek d’oraysa was he very careful to make sure that he was not oveir on any issurim and careful that he did the mitzvos he was mechuyav to do properly. But drinking water outside the Succah is b’feirush in the Mishna that it is allowed. It is only a chumra and therefore he was not makpid to go into the Succah to drink.
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