My dear Rabbi Lamm: I am sending you herewith a cheque for $200 as a fee which I promised you for the instruction that you gave to Haskel over the summer. I know how you feel about accepting this fee, but I want you to know how I feel about sending it to you. I would like to make it three times the amount, and even then it would not be adequate compensation for what you have done to and with Haskel. If it meant nothing else but that he came under your Influence for eight weeks, that in itself would have been enough. If, in addition, he has received such expert instruction at your hands and if it en-abled him, as indeed it did, to decide upon his life work, then you can well imagine how grateful I am for the share you have had in all of that. Accept this not in the spirit of a fee but rather in the spirit of a gift given to one for whom I have genuine affection and for whose future welfare I have deep interest.A happy holiday to you and to your family.Very cordially yours.Joseph H. Lookstein

My Dear Rabbi Lamm, I have your letter of the 11th of November, last, and it made me very happy to hear that you have arrived. Realizing as I do what hard work your success was built upon. Your dear parents are to be congratulated for having the good fortune to see their Norman a Rabbi of an important Jewish Center. Unfortunately for me that I cannot join your other friends on Sunday the 21st of the month, at the Installation. You see my dear Norman, we live on the north shore, which entails a distance of about 100 miles driving. I would, however, wish to meet you some times soon on an afternoon, when we could even take lunch and talk. If you will be kind enough to write me soon after your installation we will arrange the best time suitable for both of us. I wish for you a fruitful and healthy life in your chosen work. Please give my very best to your lovely parents. Please to express to then my deep appreciation for their kind thoughts of me, after these many years.Please extend my sincerest greetings to the officers of the West Side Jewish Renter and all that is best for your successful career.I am yours as ever,Harry Apfel, M.D.

Dear Rabbi Lamm, I remember the conversation well. Unfortunately it turns out that on the day you mention there is a dedication of the Great Neck Synagogue, which I helped to found, and I am going to have to go out and spend the day there. Congratulations on your Installation. Mrs. Wouk and I wish you the best success in your pulpit. Warmest regards. Cordially yours, H Wouk

Dear Rabbi Lamm: Your letter sent to me at Yeshiva university was somewhat delayed. Of course I remember you very well as a most diligent and outstanding pupil. I am therefore happy to congratulate you for your position at the West Side Jewish Center. May you enjoy a long and blessed life in your rabbinical career. I would be too glad to participate in the party at your installation but unfortunately I am compelled to take part, on the same evening, in an affair where I am a member of the Board of Trustees. Should it be possible for me to make it before it is too late, I will gladly try to attend and congratulate you personally. With kindest regards, I am Very sincerely yours, Bruno Kisch, M.D.

Dear Rabbi Lamm: It is most regretful that I shall be unable to attend the forthcoming great occasion and ”Simcha” in your life. It would have been a thrill for us to observe the installation exercises. However, some important family commitments make it impossible for us to be away from the house. My very best wishes to you for a successful career as a ”Rabbi and Teacher in Israel”, Very sincerely yours, Benjamin Brickman

Sincere good wishes on this great milestone in your life. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Appelbaum

Regret unable to attend your installation. Congratulations to the West Side Centre on their wise choice and best wishes to you for success and happiness in your work. Siegfried and Lotte Landau

Sorry we cannot be present due to previous engagement. We are confident you will succeed in the rabbinic as you have in the study of science. Best wishes, Dr. and Mrs. Eli M. Levine

Good wishes to you and to the members of your congregation on this happy occasion. May this ceremony of induction signal the beginning of a long and fruitful association in which together you will enrich the spiritual wealth of our people and fulfill the lofty goals which you have set for yourselves. Rabbinical Council of America, Rabbi Theodore L. Adams, President. Rabbi Eugene J. Cohen, Recording Secty.

Sincerely regret inability to attend. Congratulations and best wishes. May God grant you success and happiness in all your efforts in behalf of Torah and Judaism in our West Side Jewish Center. Cantor and Mrs. Lazar Wax