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Feb. 6, 1967

Letter from Albert Loewenthal about Assisting at His Wedding (1967)

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Dear Mr. Jesselsohn: This letter is long overdue. In early April of this year I gave considerable thought as to how I might properly thank your president, Rabbi Norman Lamm, for a simple act of chesed afforded to me on the occasion of my daughter’s wedding. It then occurred to me that a letter addressed to you as chairman of Yeshiva’s Board of Trustees would at least share with others the knowledge of a good deed that I am sure Rabbi Lamm would modestly keep to himself. My rabbinic and teaching schedule often leaves little time for correspondence, and so I hope the lateness of this note in no way diminishes my gratitude or your reception of its sentiments. I am a graduate of Yeshiva’s high school in Manhattan (1960), an alumnus of the college (1964), and ordained from RIETS in 1967. Like so many, Yeshiva has been an extended family for me since my bar mitzvah. Otherwise, I am in no way exceptional and have never considered myself deserving of special consideration. Yeshiva has been good to me and to my children, and I do my best to translate more than a decade of formal education into service and leadership for the communities I serve. In planning my eldest daughter’s wedding in late March, I sent an invitation to Rabbi and Mrs. Lamm, knowing full well that the probability of his attendance was unlikely. The invitation, however, was more than courtesy. Over the years I have studied nearly all of Dr. Lamm’s writings. He was my Jewish Philosophy professor and has been a seminal influence on my evolving Jewish worldview ever since. At conventions his lectures were eagerly anticipated, and his sermons a nourishing delicacy for any rabbi. From afar, Rabbi Lamm became a critical orienting post in my intellectual and spiritual growth, and the wedding invitation was thus an expression of gratitude and admiration for one who had become an intellectual and spiritual mentor. Some twelve years ago, as Rabbi Lamm assumed the presidency of Yeshiva, I was undergoing a difficult t…
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