Dear Rabbi Lamm: I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you upon your position as president of Yeshiva University. You will bring dignity and honor to your post and I wish you success and best wishes. Warm personal regards. Sincerely yours, Dr. Yaffa Eliach, Director

Dear President Lamm: Congratulations upon the publication of your new book The Religious Thought of Hasidism – Text and Commentary. It includes many important elements of Hasidism and is a fine contribution to the study of Hasidism. I hope it will become a college textbook, which will also be a great asset to my seminars on Hasidism. Among the very interesting themes, I did not find references to my interpretation of the origins of Hasidism, which was the subject of articles as well as my dissertation Jewish Hasidism, Russian Sectarians and Non-Conformists in the Ukraine, 1700–1760. (When I wrote my dissertation, my Professor of Jewish History and dissertation guide was Prof. Salo W. Baron.) Recently it also became part of scholarship and research at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. They too were able to prove this theory from original source material from Eastern Europe, as I did during my research. Once more, congratulations on your new book and much success with future ones. All the best, Professor Yaffa Eliach, Professor of History and Literature. Home Address: 300 East 54th Street, Apt. 23K, New York, NY 10022, Tel: (212) 319-2927 – Fax: (212) 751-7932.