Dear Mr. Gross: I want to tell you how deeply impressed I was with the tributes paid to you at the Union dinner on Sunday night, and with the wonderful response you made. I suppose so many others have told you that that I need not repeat it, but I would like to say that your daughter’s words were the most moving and touching that I have ever heard in such a context. May G-d grant that you and your wife have abundant nachas from your children and they from yofor years without end. Sincerely, Rabbi Norman Lamm

Dear Ellen: Mindy and I want to thank you for letting us see the enclosed copy of your talk at the affair for Rabbi Rabinowitz. It is really a masterpiece! I think it is something he will treasure for a long, long time to come. It reflects upon a great deal of work that was put into it by someone who is not only highly talented, but utterly convinced of the encomia she is bestowing upon the guest of honor. Congratulations again, and all our best wishes. Incidentally, I quite sincerely appreciate your kind remarks about my Halakhic discourse on Shabbat Ha-Gedal.My fondest regards to your parents,Cordially yours,RABBI NORMAN LAMMNL/leEnc.

Dear Rabbi Lamm: We are honoring our Rabbi Harold P. Smith with a Chai Testimonial Dinner on Sunday, September 17, please G-d, in honor of his eighteen years of dedicated and very able leadership of our congregation. We would very much appreciate it if you would send either a telegram or a letter about your feelings concerning Rabbi Smith. Some will be read at the Testimonial Dinner on Sunday, and all will be included in a Golden Book which will be given to him as a permanent token of the great esteem in which he is held both by our congregation and by his colleagues all over the country. (It will be especially fitting for him to read while he travels to and from Israel, which we will make possible as our gift to him on that night). Please address your letters or telegrams as follows: Congregation Agudath Achim of South Shore Rabbi Smith Testimonial c/o Sherman House Clark and Randolph Chicago, Illinois. Your cooperation and friendship will be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Theodore N. Silverman