Letter from R. Leo Jung Extending Congratulations to R. Lamm Upon Completing Ph.D. (1966)

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Letter from R. Joseph Lookstein about R. Lamm Receiving Ph.D. (1966)

My dear Norman: I thought that I would see you at the luncheon after the graduation exercises. That would have afforded me an opportunity to congratulate you once again, but especially to extend congratulations to Mindy. I would like you to know that I took personal pride in your obtaining the Ph.D. Somehow I felt, not alone that one of my boys got it, but that rather one who is as dear to me as a son got it.I know that you will make your mark, not alone in the rabbinate, but in the realm of scholarship as well. Good luck to you, and please convey my greetings to your dear parents as well.With affectionate greetings,Joseph LooksteinJHL:cl

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Letter from R. Wurzburger about R. Lamm Receiving Ph.D. (1966)

Dear Norman: Please accept my heartfelt mazol tov upon receiving your Ph.D. and your promotion to a professorship. I am sure that with this kind of setting, you will be able to contribute even more towards the renewal of Jewish life. Not that titles can really add anything to you, but it's good to know that you no longer have to concern yourself with winning the approval of others in order to be certified as a learned man. Warmest mazol tov and all the best.Cordially,Walter S. WurzburgerWSW/jp

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Letter from Samuel Kramer about R. Lamm Receiving Doctorate and YU Professor Appointment (1966)

Dear Rabbi: As soon as the very nice article about the establishment of the Erna Michael College at the Yeshiva University and your appointment as Michael Professor of Jewish Philosophy appeared in the Rosh Hashana Center Bulletin, I started to dictate a letter of congratulations and best wishes upon your having received your Doctorate and your deserved appointment. I know you played no small share in the establishment of the Michael College by our dear friend Jacob Michael to honor the sainted memory of his beloved Erna. Unfortunately, preoccupation and distractions in no end of problems in the office and elsewhere, apart from the whole series of holidays and travelling to and from Lake Mohegan, regrettably left my letter unfinished. Now that the holidays are over, and we have returned to the City, I am now belatedly completing the unfinished letter. (As is said, ״Better late than never”).I need hardly tell you how pleased Sylvia and all our children, (and Avery, of course) were to read about these very significant events and our heartfelt congratulations and best wishes for your continued good health and outstanding accomplishment in the new tasks that you have now assumed.With warm personal regards from Sylvia and myself,Sincerely,Samuel KramerSK:mfEncl.P.S.All of us also read with great interest the reprint of the outstanding sermon you preached on Rosh Hashana, entitled, "Today". We regretted that we missed hearing it. Incidentally, on erev Yom Kippur in the ”Kaporah” prayer I set aside the enclosed $5. bill as a gift to charity. I have been keeping it in my pocket ever since, Intending to turn it over to you for your special charitable fund. You will thus be my "sheleach mit zvah".

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