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Exchange with Prof. Blidstein about His Book on Honoring Parents (1972)

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1. Prof. Blidstein to R. Lamm

1. Prof. Blidstein to R. Lamm (Dec. 20, 1972)

1. Prof. Blidstein to R. Lamm (Dec. 20, 1972)

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Dear Professor Lamm, According to your suggestion, I am hereby enclosing a tentative Table of Contents, a short preface, and two pages of my book: Re-biographing: The Midrash and Psychotherapeutic Narrativism. In the proposed book, I attempt to extend the theory of dialogue and continuity which follows from my analysis of the Hasidic Ethic, by showing that it is the Midrashic system which explains Jewish survival and progress. It thus demonstrates how, contrary to an unchangeable “original-sin”-based Oedipal psychology, one’s “I” (past failure) may enter into a therapeutic dialogue with one’s “thou” (future) through a “teshuva”-anchored reinterpretation of one’s past.I hope that you will find the manuscript suitable for the series on Law and Ethics, although it does not deal directly with Jewish Law.Sincerely yours,PINCHAS ROTENBERGMR/nren.
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Exchange with Milton Konvitz about Publishing Articles on Judaism and Human Rights (1970)

Dear Rabbi Lamm, One of my chief undertakings while here at the Hebrew University is to prepare for publication my volume on Judaism and Human Rights, which, as you know, W.W. Norton has agreed to publish in a series edited by Professor David Patterson. I have gone over carefully the two papers which you were good enough to let me have for this volume, and again I want to thank you warmly for what will be important contributions to the volume. I have used the typed scripts of your articles rather than their published versions, for, as I believe is the case, the manuscripts have a later date. I have edited each of the two papers and I am sending you herewith xeroxed copies of them. What I have done in my editing was to cut out your discussion of American constitutional developments relating to privacy or the Fifth Amendment. I did this for two reasons: 1). Because I want my book to deal with the Jewish view of fundamental liberties and not with comparative law, 2). The American law on these topics, as you know, is in flux, and I do not want our discussion to become quickly out of date. I hope that you will approve my editing, which I have tried to keep to the minimum and which I have tried to do mainly with an eye on the above two considerations. It will be necessary for you, I'm afraid, to have the articles re-typed, so that they will be ready for the printer. The footnotes will need to be numbered in view of the omissions. But I believe that the task will be a fairly simple one for you. I hate to impose this burden on you since you have been so helpful up to now, but I do want you to see the changes I have made, and I am anxious that the copy for the printer will offer him no opportunity for mistakes. I would greatly appreciate your kindly sending me at my Jerusalem address the re-typed articles by air-mail as soon as you can and I assure you again of my profound thanks for your very valuable contributions. Incidentally I knew your grandfather, Rabbi Baumol, very …
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Exchange with Prof. Blidstein about Reprints of Articles on Halacha and the Constitution (1969)

Dear Rabbi Lamm, I believe you have published a series of essays dealing with the Jewish approach to a variety of constitutional problems, among them the right of privacy. Could I ask you for offprints, if these are available? With warm regards, Cordially, Gerald J. Blidstein Ass’t Prof. of Religion
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