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NEWS
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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