Dear Rabbi: I would be very interested in hearing your suggestions and criticisms in regard to ways in which we can improve the effectiveness of the enclosed program. I trust that you and your family have had a restful summer. Elga and I look forward to seeing you in September. Kindest regards. Sincerely, Stephen

Dear Rabbi, I have just read your very timely and superbly reasoned analysis of existentialist life implications in Tradition. In at least one sense, the existence of life itself on planet earth–with the diminishing proportion of man’s greater respiratory desire from his being, instead returning such destruction of forest and the acidity so recognized with the extinction of the universe in accordance with natural lawfulness (inevitability?)–must be recognized as being primarily the result of man’s being–misuse of the resources of the earth, not only as stewards (of the thoughts of murder being excluded). If man’s function, indeed, of significant cosmic meaning would not be highly questioned by his life-willingly turned into destroying and thereby all options of total self-destruction?

Dear Steve: Thanks for the copy of your letter to Dr. Bernard Mandelbaum. Your words are particularly perceptive, especially your comment that the attitudes of both the younger and older generation are Jewishly valid, provided that we understand that each, by itself, is not sufficient. I sympathize with your desire for communication between the rabbinate and the active laity. I would like to help build that kind of bridge.Warmest regards to your wife and children,Cordially yours,Rabbi Norman LammRNL/fz

Dear Norman: It has been too long since we saw you and Mindy. I trust all is well. You are probably aware of the joint project between Bar-Ilan and Weizmann for Storage and Retrieval of The Responsa. I am sure that Dr. Fraenkel would like to have your comments. Perhaps some of your congregants might be interested in becoming identified with this project through financial support. What do you think? Warmest regards, Sincerely, Stephen L. Stulman