Letter to R. Riskin about Inability to Attend Lincoln Square Synagogue Inaugural Dinner (1967)

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Letter to R. Irving Baumol Declining Invitation to Attend Temple Beth Sholom Dedication Ceremony (1967)

Dear Irving: Thank you very much for your invitation to attend the dedication ceremonies of a new building of your Synagogue. I am sure that you can appreciate how busy Sunday afternoons are for rabbis, and that I regretfully have no choice but to decline your invitation to participate in what I am certain will be a very pleasant and interesting day. I know that you have been working for this event with great diligence for many years, and I want to wish you and Florence many years of good luck and health in which to enjoy the fruits of your labors.Warmest regards to all,Cordially yours,Rabbi Norman LammRNL/fz

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Letter to Pollak Family about Inability to Attend Bar Mitzvah (1967)

Dear Charlotte and Yaakov: Mindy and I would have been delighted to attend Daniel's Bar Mitzvah on Thanksgiving morning, p. G. Having enjoyed the last one as much as we did, we looked forward to a repeat performance this year. Regretfully (but, of course, not unfortunately), we shall not be able to attend because of other commitments to "simchas" at this very time. It seems that everybody, including close friends and members, is either getting married or having a Bar Mitzvah this Thanksgiving Day. Please forgive us then, and please ask Daniel to forgive us too. We look forward to joining you at other "simchas" in the future, and meanwhile express to you our deepest feelings of joy and our most genuine good wishes for "mazel tov," and years without end of undiminished "nachas" as he grows up into the kind of Jew and human being who will justify his parents' fondest hopes, and realize their greatest dreams for him.Sincerely yours,RABBI NORMAN LAMMRNL/fz

Bar & Bat Mitzvah

Letter to Arthur Friedman Regretting Inability to Attend His Wedding (1967)

Dear Arthur: It is with considerable regret that I write to inform you that I shall be unable to attend and officiate at your wedding on January 13th, p.G. I think you know me well enough to appreciate that had conditions permitted it, I would have considered it both an honor and a pleasure to join you in your great ”simchah.” However, I have been invited to address the World Conference of Orthodox Synagogues which is taking place that week in Jerusalem. My plans call for me to be away for the minimum amount of time necessary for my lecture and other important business, namely, January 6-16, 1968. I hope you will appreciate that the importance of this Conference, the first of its kind in history, is of such magnitude that I had no choice but to accept the invitation. I hope you and your bride will forgive me, and that I shall have the opportunity of joining you on many other happy occasions and, of course, of what I hope and pray will be a long, long life for you of joy and satisfaction.Cordially yours.RABBI NORMAN LAb«4RNL/fz

Wedding Celebrations