Lamed said of him: "He was very far from being one who tried in any way to make himself popular."

Lamed, like many others, likens Mark Twain to Lincoln in various of his characteristics.

Lamed Hei Operation was a code name for a military operation to be performed by Jewish forces during the 1948 war.

"An Offering to the Priests of Yiddish", an article on Lamed Shapiro in the Jewish Daily Forward.

Its canvas is broader than Frank Capra's: Lamed, the chief angel (Aileen Santiago), gives the play's bumbling new angel, the Rookie, an overview of Jewish history through time travel to Ur and Sodom and Gomorrah.

When Sarah the social worker has a breakdown, her mystically inclined mother and brothers take her at her word that she's one of the Lamed Vov, the 36 virtuous people who absorb the pain of the world in times of great calamity.