Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Message From Rabbi Lamm YESHIVA UNIVERSITY 500 WEST 185th STREET NEW YORK N V 10033 TO THE YESHIVA COLLEGE CLASS OF 1984: I congratulate you on the successful completion of your college careers, conducted in the spirit of Torah U-madda. If taken seriously, the dual program is an onerous one, and its mastery is deserving of felicitations by your family, friends, and especially faculty. The times we live in are critical enough, even without the ominous overtones of George Orwell ' s famous novel which lends this calendar year such unhappy literary distinction. They will require of you not only technical and professional knowledge, but also wisdom, insight, and a finely honed spiritual intuition. We hope that you attained the beginnings of the former in your Yeshiva College classes, and that you took the first steps towards the latter in your Torah studies. May your own growth in both areas give you the intellectual, personal, and spiritual wherewithal to confront the great issues of your generation and master them in a way that will contribute le ' hagdil Torah u-le ' haadirah. Cnrd i ai 1 y ymirg } , NORMAN LAMM President 27

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YESHIVA UNIVERSITY 6 ADRR 5744 February 9, 1984 The original charge given to Abraham at the dawn of our histo which, I also believe, is especially appropriate to taXe with as you complete Yeshiva College, is HaShem ' s testimony about aham, For I know him that Yetzaveh his children, and his sehold after him, that they should keep the way of the L-rd to righteousness and justice. (Genesis 18:19) The word, tzaveh. here has to be fully understood. Usually, we translat ing 1 ill command. Hw ever, I believe that it signifie more encompassing. At the end of Dvarim (31:14), s Moses, when he is coming fast to the end of his of Israel, to call Joshua, and He says, Va ' atzav .ake him a H tzaveh. a comir ender. If we la e succeeded her e at Y eshiva to put you on your wa rfhich is Hi ay, to keep The I w, and to do righteou sness and ustice, we h ve, no doubt, one wh at is our mission. However, Mrt of our m ssion, because we unc erstand Yitzaveh ' to mean n .o command. but to make comma nders. authenti and ins pired lead Dur People, h re. in Israel, and ev erywhere. whatever your voca I pray t at HaShem bless you a 11 with 1 fe and s uccess in (four endeav Dr , and that you all me et up to he expec tations of Va ' atzaven J- YESHIVA UNIVERSl ' H ' Tevet 5744 Our Jewish studii ave s tr iven , throughout you he skills and insight which nly beyond, but also within chools , program your stay, to p 11 enable The and ficance, the quote and constant companions for four ye always be with you to enrich yo hat life has meaning beyond mer lueprint for what is, and what al Torah! - these have hope they