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May 1964

Exchange with R. Goss about RIETS Recommendation for South African Student (1964)

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1. R. Goss to R. Lamm

1. R. Goss to R. Lamm (May 15, 1964)

1. R. Goss to R. Lamm (May 15, 1964)

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Dear Rabbi Goss: It is barely a week that I have returned from South Africa, but I wish to hasten to thank you for all your friendship and guidance during the time that I spent in your community. I feel that knowing you and speaking with you as I did has immeasurably broadened my own horizons. Whatever little I might have contributed to the community, I believe I gained much more especially as a result of knowing you. I do hope that you have long recovered from the illness which kept you in bed during my last day or two in Johannesburg. Please convey my very fondest regards to Mrs. Goss and to all our friends. I do hope and pray that the time will not be long that you will be visiting New York and I will have the opportunity to reciprocate in some measure your kindness towards me. Cordially yours, Rabbi Norman Lamm. P.S. I have taken the liberty of sending you some reprints of a number of articles and talks I recently gave.
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Dear Nissim, I thought you would like to know that I recently have been invited by the Board of Jewish Education of South Africa to visit that country for a lecture tour during this coming February please G-d. I know that your father-in-law, Rabbi Kossowsky, is one of the distinguished Rabbinic scholars in that country. If, therefore, there is any message you want to give me, or anything else you or your wife would wish me to do for you when I go, I shall be more than pleased to be of assistance. My very fondest regards to your wife and to your parents. Sincerely yours, Rabbi Norman Lamm
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Letter from Student about Applying to RIETS (1964)

Dear Rabbi Lamm, I am a pupil of the Rabbi J.L. Zlotnik Seminary and am completing my teacher's course at the end of this year. I wish to prepare myself for the Ministry, and in pursuance of this aim I have decided that I should like to study at the Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Yeshivah University. I should like to commence my studies at the beginning of this academic year, i.e. September 1964. I am well-known both to Rabbi Isaac Goss, Director of the S.A. Board of Jewish Education, and Rabbi A. Hilewitz, the Principal of the Seminary, and they could afford you with testimonials as to my character and progress etc. You will appreciate that I am a stranger to America and I would greatly be indebted to you were you to give me guidance how to proceed about my application for entry etc. I appreciate that you are busy but I feel that since you are on the spot you can help me in this matter and I am desirous of doing everything possible to further my studies and equip myself to be a worthy member of the Rabbinate.Hoping to hear from you soon.With every good wish to you,I am,Sincerely yours
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