Letter to Mrs. Sabot Expressing Regret for Being Unable to Teach Lecture Series (1961)
Dear Mrs. Sabot: Thank you very much for your note of December 6th. It would have been a pleasure to be with you for the lecture series you suggested, but perhaps that shall have to wait for some later occasion. I look forward to meeting with you if and when I return to the Midway Temple for another series of lectures next year, p.G. Thank you once again for your interest, and let me wish you Godspeed in your enthusiasm for Jewish learning. If there is ever any way in which I can be of assistance to you and your friends in advancing this cause, please do not hesitate to let me know.Sincerely yours,Rabbi Norman LammNL\:ffP.S. I confess to a guilt feeling at not being able to satisfy your request, feeling, as I do, that a Rabbi's duty is to teach all who are willing to learn. Can we arrange for a fewer number of lectures? Or perhaps next year, p.G., we can arrange for me to lecture twice on those nights I will be speaking at Midway Temple — first to your group on the "Shema," then to the Temple group on “Yehudah Halevi.”