Letter from Dr. Avi Rockoff with Rosh Hashana Greetings (1996)

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Exchange with Dr. Avi Rockoff about the Chag Hasemicha (1998)

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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Letter from R. Soloveitchik with Gmar Chatimah Tovah Wishes (1965)

כבוד תלמידי, הרב הג׳, איש האשכולות, שיח׳: שלום וברכה! אני מודה לו על אגרתו. יבורך גם הוא, ועל ידו תבורך רעיתן ויברכו כל צאצאיו, בגמר חתימה טובה לשנת חיים ושלום, רפידת רצון ה׳ וחסדיו הגדולים. בכבוד רב, יוסף דוב סולווויציק‎

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Letter to Dr. Avi Rockoff about Exchanging Writings and "Chabura Tachat Chabura" (1995)

Dear Avi: Many thanks for your letter and the enclosures – all of which I read with much interest and delight. My grandfather, o.b.m., who was also my Rebbe, wrote a couple of sefarim. When another author mailed his work to my grandfather, the latter would respond by sending him a copy of his sefer, and inscribe it: chaburah tachat chaburah... In the same spirit, I enclose a number of recent publications, and will have another one sent to you separately. Keep them coming! NL:ro enclosure 500 West 185th Street, New York, N.Y. 10033 – (212) 960-5280

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