Exchange with Roth Family about Invitation to Visit Cape Town (1964)

1. R. Lamm to Saul Roth and Mrs. Roth (Jan. 28, 1964)

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

My dear Rabbi Lamm, I am once again writing to you in connection with a young student of the Rabbi J. L. Zlotnik Seminary named [redacted]. He will be completing his teacher’s course at the Seminary at the end of this year but he wishes to pursue further Rabbinical studies at the Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Yeshivah University. He is a very fine young man with a sterling character and a great desire to learn, and anything that you could do to help him would be greatly appreciated by me. If you have time I should like to hear from you. Meanwhile may I wish you and yours everything of the best. Sincerely yours, Rabbi Isaac Goss, Director

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Exchange with R. Goss after South Africa Trip (1964)

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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Letter to R. Rabinowitz about Planning South Africa Visit (1963)

Dear Rabbi Rabinowitz: I have not heard from you in quite a while, and hope that all is well with you and your family. I thought you might be interested in knowing that I have been invited by the South African Board of Jewish Education to visit the country this coming February, please God. I hope to leave for Johannesburg on February 1st, and return February 25th or 26th. This is one time I truly regret that you are not in your old post of Chief Rabbi of South Africa. It would have been a pleasure to spend three weeks together with you. Meanwhile, if there is anything of a special nature you think I ought to know, would you be good enough, if time permits, to drop me a note and let me know so that I may guide myself accordingly. With all best wishes to Mrs. Rabinowitz and warmest personal regards to all our mutual friends, Cordially yours, Rabbi Norman Lamm.

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