Bidspirit auction | BENGIS, ZELIG REUVEN. (Head of

BENGIS, ZELIG REUVEN. (Head of Eidah HaChareidis and author Leflagos Reuven, 1864-1953). Typed Letter Signed, written in Hebrew to Rabbi Yosef Reines on letterhead of Yeshivat Ohel Moshe (Diskin). A condolence letter to a donor. Signed by the directors of the yeshiva, as well as by Rabbi Bengis (on reverse). One page. Jerusalem, 14th Kislev, 1942. Known in his youth as the Shnipishoker Illui (Šnipiškės, near Vilna), R. Zelig Reuven Bengis was one of the leading students of the Netziv of Volozhin who called him ”a living Shas.” Following the death of R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, R. Bengis was invited to Jerusalem to become the Ga’avad (Head) of the Edah HaChareidis. He also served as Rosh Yeshiva of Ohel Moshe, which was founded by the Mahari’l Diskin (1818-98), and which was led (before R. Bengis’s tenure) by his son, R. Yitzchak Yerucham Diskin (1839-1925).