Exchange with Roger Harris about Request for R. Lamm's Autograph (1976)

1. Roger Harris to R. Lamm (Sep. 8, 1976)

1. Roger Harris to R. Lamm (Sept. 8, 1976)

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כבוד ידידי וידיד ה' הרב הגאון הגדול והחכם המובהק כ"שת מהור"נ לאם שליט"א. אחדשה"ט, באחה"ש וכבוד הראוי, שלום וברכת כל טוב סלה; הנני בזה לברך את כתר"ה על שזכה להבחר לנשיא וראש הישיבה בישיבת ר' יצחק אלחנן והאוניברסיטה. יהי רצון, שכתר"ה וזכה לנהל את הישיבה על מבועי התורה והיראה, ועל ידי הנהלתו, כרב חילו לאורייתא, תגלה הישיבה ותשגשג מעלה מעלה, ובברכה הסמוכה להדרתה, אברך את כתר"ה, יחד עם כל בני משפחתו יחיו, בכתיבה וחתימה טובה, לשנת חיים ושלום, שנת עבודה פוריה על שדה הרבצת התורה. ונזכה לגאולה שלמה וישועה קרובה והרמת קרן ישראל לאורייתא.

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Exchange with R. Halpern about R. Lamm's Appointment to YU Presidency (1976)

Dear Norman, Neil broke the wonderful news to us this morning about your election as the new President of Yeshiva University. It seems he was talking to one of his friends on the phone last night and that’s the choice bit of information he received. Sheila and I are just delighted and proud that the committee and those involved have tapped you for the office. Our only question was why it took them so long to recognize what was patently obvious to us from the beginning.

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Exchange with R. Smith about R. Lamm's Appointment to YU Presidency (1976)

Dear Rabbi Lamm: Had I written the letter of congratulations and blessings when I should have written it, that missive would have been buried among the thousands of others you undoubtedly received. Now it has a chance to be noticed. Seriously, I send on to you not only my own expressions of congratulations, good wishes, and blessings but those of the entire institutional family of Hebrew Theological College – administration, board of directors, faculty, students, parents – our entire community. We are all aware of your sterling qualities that make you so fully and totally qualified for the exalted position to which you have been elected. It is our very joyous and satisfying feeling that a great development has taken place for the overall benefit of the Orthodox Jewish community of America, replacing the deep concern (if not the grief) we all felt at the loss of the revered Dr. Belkin, Z.T.L. I am hopeful and confident that Yeshiva University and Hebrew Theological College will, under your able leadership, not only continue the warm relationship of institutional friendship and mutual cooperation which has always prevailed between us, but will, in fact, augment and enrich this relationship. Please rest assured that any cooperation and assistance you might ever seek of us for Yeshiva University will, please G-d, certainly be forthcoming, with pleasure and enthusiasm. In the meantime, please accept once again our heartfelt blessings and good wishes toward your inevitable achievement, with G-d’s help, of a monumentally successful presidential administration of one of the world’s truly great Yeshivos. B’virchat Kol Tuv, I remain Most sincerely, Rabbi Harold P. Smith Acting President Hebrew Theological College

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