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

Rabbi Lamm shared a loving and playful relationship with his brother, Rabbi Maurice Lamm. This letter is a good example.

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Letter to R. Maurice Lamm about Receiving Sefer Emek Halacha (1963)

Dear Moishe: I just received a letter from Uncle in which he expressed astonishment that you never write to him acknowledging receipt of his Sefer (about which he is as proud as can be), which I believe you received from Pop. I suggest that you do Uncle the courtesy of writing to him at 16 Lincoln Street, Jerusalem. Yours, Norman.

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

לכבוד ידידי היקר הגאון הגדול ר' נחום לאם שליט"א. נשיא וראש ישיבת רבינו יצחק אלחנן. הנני מחשיב את הערכתך המיוחד בקשר עם מאמרי למתנת יום טוב מצויינת. חוששני שאינני ראוי לזה הלא אותה הוא שהפצת כשרינו כל כך הרבה מתורתך המציא בה והקרנת ללבינו אוצרות נחמדות מבית גנזיך עד שעלינו לומר "שמימך אני שותים ולחמך אנו אוכלים." האצלת עלי ולרבים כמוני יותר מן המצה והרחבת שטח הראות שלנו באופן נפלא – לא רק עי יצירותיך בעולם המחלה אלא גם בעולם המעלה. הצלחת לפלס לנו אני חפלה לד' שתצליח בט מעליך ותמלוך לבצע כל התכניות שלך להגדיל תורה ולהאדירה.באיחולי חג כשר ושמח ובהוקרה מצויינתשמחה

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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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