Manuscripts and Letters from the Archive of Rabbi Bengis

Letters and manuscripts from the archive of Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis Ga'avad of Jerusalem, and an accounting book in his handwriting (with various accounts of charity money and deposits). * A letter he wrote to his wife while travelling from Jerusalem to Lithuania. Kalvarija, Shvat 1939. * Another letter in his handwriting and with his signature. * Various letters sent to him and to his family, some contain words of Torah.
Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis (1867-1953), a leading Torah scholar in his generation, student of the Volozhin Yeshiva where he was known as an exceptional genius and his teacher, the Netziv of Volozhin called him "a living Talmud". Rabbi and Av Beit Din of Boćki, Smolensk and Kalvarija. Ascended to Eretz Israel in 1938 and served as rabbi of the Eda HaCharedit in Jerusalem. Wrote L'Flagot Reuven.
8 items. Varied size and condition. Overall good condition.