Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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lima ;nr 1 1 ] i n ] RABBI ISAAC ELCMANAN TMEOI

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Yeshiva University oo » of the president mm TO THE YESHIVA COLLEGE CLASS OF 1988 It is with the mixed feelings of genuine fondness and anticipated nostalgia that I bid you farewell as you are graduated from Yeshiva College. Your alma mater will miss you, and await your return as active and committed alumni. You take your leave in the Hebrew year 5748, the last three numerals of which are written as tismach , be happy. what a happy omen, and what good advice! Maimonides teaches us that there is a difference between simchah and hoi lelut , authentic happiness and spurious happiness — just rowdiness and buffoonery. My wishes for each and every one of you is that you achieve the tismach , that your lives be blessed by genuine simchah : of the heart and the mind, in plenty and in comfort, allowing you not only to build wonderful Jewish families and fine careers in the professions and business, but also to remember that the core of joy is: Talmud Torah . Remain connected to that fountain of eternal wisdom, and your lives will be genuinely happy! NL:is 500 West 185th Street, New York, N.Y. 10033 • (212) 960-5280

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YESHIVA UNIVERSITY oundary, moving es, difficult an t a different relation oed as one leaves Colle ' Vjo -ft )qs?t fl c The hachana phase, prepar the embrace of kedusha. A oal, continuity of Torah and nd, facing this, the Yeshiva :ollege c Si is suddenly aware that ver y very few young Jews know as ch about Jews and Judaism, as heUoe s? Ut And S it is suddenly clear that if there is to be effective lea If the American Jewish Comm ln JJ P even the world Jewish community, K his colleagues will have other Yeshiva College g ill survive the next 50 or 10 to make the same kind of c raduates made for the firs t 100 b Jears tH of Yeshiva ' s dedication to 1 gradua n, and It is an awesome, even fr evade - for his own sake ghtening responsibility and t a responsibility which our , for the sake o£ his childre e too few for his children ' s children. His Rebbeim and teacher present and whose hopes at Yeshiva, who were so much he carries into the future, for their destinies are one. a par t of his , r qjl - J):ie V j ' ■ r 1 - iff '