Rabbi
Shemaryahu Gurary
1942 photo of RaShaG
Personal
Born
1897
Died1989
ReligionJudaism
SpouseChana
ChildrenBarry Gurary
DenominationChabad
BuriedQueens, New York

Shemaryahu Gurary, also known by his Hebrew initials as Rashag, (1897-1989) was a rabbi following the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty of Hasidism. His father was Menachem Mendel Gurary. He was a son-in-law of Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the sixth Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe, and the brother-in-law of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh. He worked with his father-in-law in Russia and Poland and moved to the U.S. in 1940.[1]

Biography

He was the director in Warsaw of the Tomchei Temimim yeshiva network.

Upon the death of his father-in-law in 1950, he was considered as a possible successor to him but soon ceded his position to his brother-in-law Menachem Mendel Scheerson.[2]

Gurary's son Barry Gurary had disputes with the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Yosef Yitzchok Kaminetzki, Days of Chabad, Kehot 2002, p. 139
  2. ↑ Rapoport, C. (2011). The Afterlife of Scholarship A Critical Review of 'The Rebbe' by Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman. Oporto Press. Page 170.

References

  • Avrum M. Ehrlich, Messiah of Brooklyn: Understanding Lubavitch Hasidism Past and Present
  • Avrum M. Ehrlich, Leadership in the HaBaD Movement
  • Shaul Shimon Deutsch, Larger than Life
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