Le'Flagot Reuven - the Copy of Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis - with Dozens of Additions and Glosses handwritten by Him

Le'Flagot Reuven - the Copy of Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis - with Dozens of Additions and Glosses handwritten by Him
Le'Flagot Reuven commentary on the Talmud. First section on the Berachot tractate and Seder Moed. Piotrkow, 1906. By Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis Av Beit Din of Bodki (and later Rosh Av Beit Din of Jerusalem).
Before us is the copy of the author, with many handwritten additions by him! An extremely valuable, unique item!
On the title page of the book, the author wrote a dedication: "a gift in honor of my friend the honorable genius rabbi … Rabbi Avraham Eliyahu Svelvich in Vitebsk by his friend the author". Rabbi Avraham Eliyahu Svelvich was the one who prepared the book for printing.

Throughout the leaves of the book, dozens of long, important glosses handwritten by the author. The glosses begin with the preface and finish at the end of the book. Many of them are written in first person. The glosses are of important halachic, scholarly and Aggadic content.
On leaf 9, Rabbi Bengis put a word into brackets and wrote another word beside it.
The additions were written in different times, as indicated by the color of the ink.
Most of these handwritten additions were printed by him in the third edition of the book, which was printed in Jerusalem in 1942 (most of them under the title 'Milu'im'). However, our examination of the glosses and comments revealed that some of the additions the author wrote to the preface were not printed and it is possible that some other glosses as well were not printed in the third edition for various reasons.
The author's stamp appears on the last (detached) leaf.

Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis (1867-1953) was known as a prodigy already as a child and was "marvelously knowledgeable in the Talmud and Poskim" (according to Rabbi Shlomo author of 'Cheshek Shlomo'). When he was 17 years old, he went to learn in the Volozhin yeshiva under the Netziv, who called him 'the living Shas'. While learning at Volozhin, his reputation quickly grew and he was known as an extremely sharp student and a diligent learner.
In 1892 he was appointed Rabbi of Bodki, Poland. After having spent 19 years as the rabbi of Bodki, in 1911 he became the rabbi of Kalvarija, Lithuania. During his time there, World War I broke out. During the war, the Russian government forced Jews to move further eastward. Rabbi Bengis settled in Smolensk. After the war, Rabbi Bengis returned to Kalvarija. His reputation grew, and he was known as an expert in all areas of Judaism - he knew countless Jewish works, including the entire bible, both the Yerushalmi and Bavli Talmud, the Rambam, Shulchan Aruch, backward and forward. He received halachic questions from all over the world.
In 1938, he immigrated to Jerusalem to serve as Rosh Av Beit Din of Ha'Edah Ha'Charedit. in 1949, he became Gaon Av Beit Din until his death.
Among his leading disciples was Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv who received his Semicha from him.

138 pp.
Condition: Good. Wear and tear, wrinkles. The title page is detached as well as the front binding. The back binding is missing. All the glosses are readable, except for single words. Loose leaves.