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September 2002

Exchange with Dr. Garrin about His Editorship of Jewish Book Annual, Chag Hasemicha, and "Seventy Faces" (2002)

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1. Dr. Garrin to R. Lamm

1. Dr. Garrin to R. Lamm (Sep. 12, 2002)

1. Dr. Garrin to R. Lamm (Sept. 12, 2002)

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Dear Rabbi Lamm, I just wanted to congratulate you on the splendid chag hasemicha this past Sunday. My wife and I were there because Rabbi Samuels was among the inductees, and also because our future mechutanim’s current son-in-law, Akiva Sacknovitz, was too. (Our own son Ari was engaged last week. This is a new, and very pleasant, phase for us.) The speakers were excellent, particularly Ari Berman and Minister Ne’eman, whose presence was obviously of political significance. He was a little hard to hear, but what he had to say was very much to the point. And of course hearing you speak is always a great pleasure. Oratory like yours is really a lost art — I can hardly think of anyone who practices it, in this country anyway. I particularly enjoyed the way you turned the Yosi ben Kisma baraita into a dramatic dialogue, complete with colloquial inflections. Terrific! I also enjoyed the irony of hearing you advocate taking controversial positions (or non-positions), while standing in front of a faculty who presumably thought that’s just what you were doing. I just wonder, though — how many of the new musmachim are actually planning careers in the pulpit? Anyhow, a hearty yasher koach from the out-of-towner. Best wishes to you and your family for a chag kasher v’sameach. Avi Rockoff
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Exchange with Dr. Milton Birnbaum about "Seventy Faces" (2002)

Dear Rabbi Lamm, What a delightful gift our daughter and son-in-law presented us recently – your most recent book: the two volumes of "Seventy Faces: Articles of Faith." (The occasion was our being honored at the annual Kodimoh Israel Bond Dinner – along with nine other honorees from the other area synagogues.) Although some of the material in the volumes you were kind enough to have sent to us before, it was a real pleasure to become reacquainted with it—and, of course, to see the new inclusions that we had never seen before.While I'm reading the articles in one volume, Ruth is reading articles in the other—and we exchange expressions of admiration of your content and style after completing each article.We hope that your imminent (is it really *"imminent"*) \[retirement?] will not curtail your publication of future expressions of your much-needed wisdom. To adapt a clause from William Wordsworth's poem on John Milton, *"Rabbi Lamm, the world hath need of thee: she is a fen / Of stagnant waters..."*I'm taking the liberty of enclosing a copy of a recent article I had published in *MODERN AGE* (not to be confused with Modern Orthodoxy). I apologize for not capitalizing the “M” and “C” in *Modern* and *Centrist* Orthodoxy. I hope you don't find my failure to do so a capital offense!Ruth joins me in sending you and Mindy our warmest wishes.Most cordially,Milton Birnbaum Encl.
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Dear Rabbi Lamm שליט”א, Enclosed please find my review of your book. I do not know if they will be running it in the initial edition of the paper. Sincerely, Hanoch Teller ALMOST two centuries have passed since the death of Rabbi Hayyim of Volozhin, Tora genius and leader of the Lithuanian Tora community and Jews everywhere. His greatest legacy, as so marvellously articulated by Dr. Norman Lamm in a translation of his Hebrew book by the same title, was his commitment to Tora Lishma, Tora for Tora's sake.
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