“Tell me, Shalom, how long have we known each other?” So began my last serious conversation with Rabbi Lamm. And I told him that long before we met, he had sent me a note about something I had written in a student newspaper, ending with an expression of interest in my future as a thinker and writer. At the time he served at a prominent synagogue and taught in what today is IBC on Monday mornings. I was a teenager without any YU connections. Although he then had no official position at YU, he took on the responsibility of identifying and encouraging young talent.
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