Shemaryahu Gurary

Rabbi Shemaryahu Gurary
1942 photo of RaShaG
Personal life
Born	1897
Died	1989
Spouse	Chana
Children	Barry Gurary
Religious life
Religion	Judaism
Denomination	Chabad

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

External links

• Passing of the Rashag