Zelig Reuven Bengis

Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis (1864, Shnippishok, Russia - 1953, Jerusalem, E. Israel) was the Russian-born Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for the Edah HaChareidis. He wrote a seven-volume commentary on the Talmud, called "Leflagos Reuven". He was the son of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Bengis, the rov of the Russian town of Shnippishok. Rabbi Zelig Reuven was soon known as "the Shnippishoker illuy" (prodigy). When he was 17 years old, he went to learn in the Volozhi... more

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  • 1864

Date of death:

  • 1953 (age 89 years)

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