Letter from R. Krauss Praising R. Lamm (1985)

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Letter of Gratitude from Rabbi Lamm's Family (1968)

Dear Norman, I hope that this does not embarrass you too greatly, but it is all very deeply felt and meant. Our beloved Zeida (ע״ה) would have much nachas from the wonderful name you have made for yourself; your wisdom and learning; and the high position in the Orthodox Jewish circles that you held. But, I feel, that he would have been most proud and pleased to know that you, like he, throughout his blessed life, will always make the time and find the compassion to help those less fortunate than yourself. You, of all of us, come closest to...

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Letter from R. Shafner Thanking R. Lamm for Inspiration Over the Years (1998)

Dear Rabbi Lamm: I am a musmach of RIETS and attended my Chag Hasmicha this year. I just wanted to let you know how your words have inspired me over the last ten years, which I spent in Yeshiva College, RIETS, Wurzweiler, and the Bernard Revel Graduate School. Your intellectual honesty and your messages of dignity and balance, vehement centrism, and love of all Jews have profoundly impressed themselves on my thinking and my rabbinate. My gratitude goes out to you and to the Yeshiva and University which you have steered these many years. You may remember that we spoke before I went off to be the Rabbi of India for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Bombay after receiving my Semicha, MA, and MSW three years ago. I am presently the Rabbi of the St. Louis Hillel Center at Washington University in St. Louis, a wonderful institution with a large and passionate staff and a very active Jewish student body. It is exactly what I have been looking for, and the fulfillment of guiding and teaching Jewish students, faculty, and staff knows no bounds. My best wishes for a freeing Pesach and a Chag Kasher V’Sameach.

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Letter from R. Maurice Lamm Praising R. Lamm (2003)

I'm sorry to say this, but... you are really the Gadol Ha’bayis – you’re helping so many in the family, as always, but these days especially my kids and grandchildren, that they are all amazed when they come together and you are invariably the subject and the model they teach their kids when they talk about the family. It is always “the Lamms” who are the ideals, “the quintessential family.” How Mom and Pop would swoon if they just heard the echoes in Olam Ha’ba. I envy you – and, yes, I love you. Gut Shabbos, Moish

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