How can a generation that has witnessed the destruction of its world move forward? At just age 25, as a guest preacher, a young Rabbi Lamm took on that question.
Shortly after beginning his tenure in Springfield, MA, Rabbi Lamm instituted "Late Friday night services" to attract non-shomer Shabbat families to shul. He typically delivered sermonettes on these occasions. In his first such talk, he offered "a credo for the pulpit."
In 1997, Rabbi Lamm delivered a controversial address that came to be known as the "Caveman Speech." In response to Rabbi Lamm, his colleague Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld invoked God's charge to Noach to "leave the ark." Here is their stimulating exchange.
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