Beloved friends, Rabbi Labin, thank you so much for that lovely introduction, and may I salute

your wonderful, generous, compassionate, learned, and sensitive leadership of this great community

for so many years.

Thank you also for that lovely introduction.

One word particularly resonated with me.

The phrase unending eloquence, the eloquence I'm not sure about, but the unending.

But friends,

bear with me if I pay a special tribute

to a remarkable individual

because a memory

came back to me so powerfully this evening.

You see, 47 years ago,

as a young sophomore, undergraduate student,

in search of Jewish Enlightenment, I came to New York in the summer of 1968 and came to this shul. We're an extraordinary rabbi, Rabbi Norman Lamb, welcomed me in, not knowing me from Adam, gave me his time and his wisdom, spoke to me of his dream, of modern orthodoxy of the particular challenge of Yushiva University.

And that encounter has resonated with me in all the years from then till this day.

Rabbi Lamb, your leadership, not only of this community, but of Yushiva University, of modern

orthodoxy, has been so

outstanding and its dignity and intellectual integrity. We salute to you and we wish you many

more years of health, happiness and blessing. Amen.

And yes,

rabbi,

you've been getting the knighthood

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