Letter to R. Schwartz about "Jewish Life" Halachic Editorial Policy (1970)

Rabbi Lamm often rushed to the defense of his younger brother, Rabbi Maurice Lamm, with whom he shared both a loving and playful relationship.

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Exchange with R. Elkanah Schwartz about Publishing Papers on "New Currents on the Orthodox Scene" (1967)

Dear Rav Lamm – I hope this note finds you and yours well, and at the beginning of a happy, healthy, and fruitful year. Your remarks about my pamphlet project to encourage new writers are much appreciated, both for your having taken the time to respond and for the guidance. The outline has meanwhile been returned to my “ideas” file. Again I ask you for the benefit of your thinking, and hope you will similarly respond. Two summers ago, I organized and chaired a symposium at the Rabbinical Alliance convention on the theme of “New Currents on the Orthodox Scene.” Participants were Irving Glick for AOJS, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin for Yavneh, R. Yitzhak Gilat for Bar Ilan, and (by default) for COLPA, Rabbi Emanuel Rackman. Rackman prepared the paper for publication and then shortly left both YU and the OU. Saul Bernstein then took it in hand to publish it, although he had to cut and shorten my suggestions to him in order to reduce the length to fit their format. At the Glouster session, I met with Marvin Schick, including him in my remarks. He offered this suggestion – that if additional papers are prepared on other important new currents on the Orthodox scene, the project itself will acquire stature and usefulness. Such papers, if in mimeograph form, would in effect serve as “position papers” on these various trends. I have therefore prepared additional essays on the “Jewish Catalog Challenge” and “Outreach and the Traditional Community.” As such, if these were published as a pamphlet, they could assume some stature in themselves. It occurred that COLPA could sponsor such a project. Enclosed are the papers (which could be easily updated) and I return your envelope. Your thoughts and comments will be much appreciated. Sincerely, Elkanah Schwartz

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Letter from R. Warhaftig about "Halachot Vahalichot" (1990)

לכבוד הרב פרופ׳ נחום לם נשיא ישיבה אוניברסיטי ניו יורק הרב לם הנכבד, אני מודה לך על ספרך "הרוממות מהעיון בו". אשמח לרעיונך. בברכת כתיבה וחתימה טובה ובכבוד רב, ד״ר זרח ורהפטיג

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Letter from R. Sacks about "Halachot Vahalichot" (1990)

Dear Norman, Your sefer arrived this morning. Thank you so much for sending me a copy. I am about to leave for Israel shortly for a long study leave prior to taking up office as Chief Rabbi, and I hope to have the opportunity to study it intensively then. I have read some of the chapters which have appeared in print before and found them uniformly superb – yeshar kokhekha. A really impressive achievement. I am lost in admiration. Thanks again and with warmest regards, Yours sincerely, Jonathan Sacks

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