Rabbi Pam began his career at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in 1938, when was appointed maggid shiur (Talmudic lecturer) there.

[1] While Pam was respected as a great talmudic scholar within Yeshiva circles, he was also widely admired for his humility and soft-spoken style.

Pam was a vocal supporter of yeshiva education for non-religious Russian immigrants to Israel through the work of his organization called Shuvu.

At the keynote session of the annual 1990 Agudath Israel convention, Pam spoke impassionedly about the influx of new Jewish emigrants from the Soviet Union and his concern that their children were growing up oblivious to their religious heritage.

He argued that a network of schools should be set up in Israel for those emigrants and organized a convention meeting with wealthy and influential patrons to facilitate his vision.