Dear Reb Nochem: As you were in India, I would appreciate your personal comments on the enclosed brochure which I received in this morning's mail. Many thanks and warmest personal regards. Sincerely yours, Moshe Sherer Rabbi Moshe Sherer Executive Vice-President

Dear Moshe: Please do not think ill of me for not having answered your long letter and your two articles which contained enclosures of reprints. My silence was not due to neglect of the matter, certainly not to disregard of yourself. It is, rather, because the subject matter we are discussing is so involved, so complex, and so consequential, that I hesitate to commit my inconclusive thoughts to writing. However, as soon as I feel that I can see my way through the problem, then I shall write to you in greater detail. For the present, I want to thank you for the reprints – I will return the three article series in a very short while – and to tell you that I respect your opinion very much, although that does not necessarily mean that I agree with all that you have to say. Once again, many many thanks for all the trouble you have taken to go into this matter in detail with me. Sincerely yours, Rabbi Norman Lamm

Dear Reb Nochum: I want to cordially invite you to join me at breakfast with Governor Nelson Rockefeller on Monday morning, October 12th (Columbus Day) at 9:00 A.M. in my office, 5 Beekman Street, New York City. I am inviting you, together with a small number of Orthodox rabbinic and lay leaders from every part of our city, for a breakfast with us. Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz will also drop in to have unpublicized off-the-record discussion with Governor Rockefeller about issues that are troubling us.As I have worked closely with them over the years, I know that you will enjoy this off-the-cuff talk with them in the intimate atmosphere of a breakfast. Won't you please honor me by accepting this invitation? I am sure that you will find it interesting to get to know Governor Rockefeller informally.With warm regards and all good wishes for a G'mar Chasima Tova,Sincerely,Rabbi Moshe ShererMS/n

Dear Rabbi Lamm: Thank you for your note with a copy of a letter that you sent to The Jewish Observer regarding Yonason Rosenblum's critique of your book Torah Umadda, which appeared in that publication several years ago. I thereupon looked into the exchange between the letter-writer and the author. I learned that thus far a total of four letters passed between them, resulting in a meeting of the minds and an acceptance by Rabbi Rosenblum of the need to clarify, in the pages of The Jewish Observer, his characterization of your approach to the potential for sanctity of Madda. I too feel that the expression used by Rabbi Rosenblum was unfortunate and unfair, and I am pleased that he will correct the matter in a forthcoming issue of The Jewish Observer. Believe me, knowing Rabbi Rosenblum, he too would not purposely do something dishonest. I appreciate it. Rabbi Moshe Sherer President MS:pr Enclosure P.S. I am enclosing an exchange of correspondence between him and Rosenblum, which I don't think you saw. 84 William Street, New York, NY 10038 – (212) 797-9000

לכ' ידידי ה"ר משה שרר שליט"א, שלומך ישגא, זה עכשיא נודע לי שבשובך מדיבורך (המוצלח) בא"י נאלצת להתאשפז בבית החולים ובכן, דע לך שאני וכל בני ישיבתנו הק' מתפללים עבורך, שתתברך ברפואה שלימה והחלמה מהירה מן השמים, רפואת הגוף ורפואת הנפש. ותזכה אתה וביתך לבריאות ושמחה עד מאה ועשרים שנה א"ס.