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Tributes Paid To Dayan Fisher zt"l
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Moving tributes were paid to the late Dayan Michoel Fisher zt"l, former principal rabbi of the Federation of Synagogues and Anglo-Jewry's most senior rabbi, at a hesped at the Yeshurun Synagogue in Edgware last week (Wednesday Feb. 11).

Dayan Fisher, who was niftar last month, was in his early 90s. He was described by Dayan Yisroel Yaakov Lichtenstein, rosh beis din of the Federation of Synagogues, as a great Talmudic scholar. "Dayan Fisher was a talmid of the gedolei olom, the leaders of previous generations. But more than being a talmid of the previous rabbonim, he was a talmid of the Torah itself. He studied the Torah; he studied Tanach every time as if he were learning it for the first time. . . . The Torah not only brought him his great status but also gave him his youthfulness."

Dayan Lichtenstein also spoke about the way Dayan Fisher spanned the generations. He said: "While Dayan Fisher had an ability to relate to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as if he were a modern man, he never forgot, and he never abandoned, his shemirah, his careful watchfulness of our traditions."

Among the other speakers were Elkan Levy, a former president of the United Synagogue who was Dayan Fisher's son-in-law, and Alfred Birnbaum, a talmid of Dayan Fisher.

The azkoroh was recited by Chazan Michael Simon and the evening was chaired by Alan Finlay, president of the Federation of Synagogues.

 

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