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Copy of the Author Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis with Many Additions Handwritten by Him: Liflagot Reuven - Jerusalem, 1946 - Sefer Liflagot Reuven, ”section II, on the entire Seder Nashim... second edition with many additions and corrections”. Jerusalem, Chorev Press at the Diskin Orphanage, [1946]. [2], 9, [1], 5-26, 106 pp. Dry paper. One detached leaf with a small tear affecting the text. Good overall condition.  At the beginning of the book, stamps of Rabbeinu the Author Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis, from the time he was Rav in Eretz Yisrael, and his stamps from the time he was Rav in Kalwaria. On the title page of the book, Rabbeinu the author handwrote: ”לעצמי בע”ה” . Throughout the book, 6 glosses, some of them lengthy (some slightly trimmed at the edges) and several corrections handwritten by Rabbeinu the author and at its end, 3 entire pages handwritten by Rabbeinu with additions to his work, from ”אור לי”ד פ' שמות תש”ט לפ”ק” . It is interesting to note that there is an erasure at the end of the last page and a notation handwritten by Rabbeinu: ”מחקתי אחרי שנזכרתי שכבר דברתי מזה בשלהי ספרי...” [I have erased after recalling I spoke of this at the end of my book...].    The Gaon Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis (1864-1953) served as Rav in Kalwaria, Belarus and then as Gaon Av Beit Din of HaEidah HaCharedit of Jerusalem. Received his rabbinic Semicha from the Natziv of Volozhin, Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor and Rabbi Shlomo Hacohen of Vilna. Author of Lifalgut Reuven and more. Among his disciples were Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv. Was a famed Gaon. It is told that his in-law wanted to know whether all that was said of him was true so he sent a letter to the Rav of the Kollel, Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, who was then living in Vilna and who replied: ”ולדעתי יהיה מגאוני הזמן - ויתר הדברים אוכל להודיעו כי בפה ווילנא היו רוצים בו גדולי הרבנים דפה”.