Shemaryahu Gurary

Rabbi

Shemaryahu Gurary
Rabbi; Shemaryahu Gurary
	1942 photo of RaShaG
Personal
Born	1897
Died	1989
Religion	Judaism
Spouse	Chana
Children	Barry Gurary
Denomination	Chabad
Buried	Queens, New York

Rabbi Shemaryahu Gurary, also known by his Hebrew initials as Rashag, (1897-1989) was an Orthodox rabbi belonging to the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. His father was Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gurary. He was the older son-in-law of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn (1880-1950), known as Rebbe Rayatz, the sixth Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, and the brother-in-law of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994), the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe. He worked with his father-in-law in communal service in both Russia and Poland and then arrived in the U.S. in 1940, where he continued this work until his death. Gurary had a comprehensive knowledge of Chassidic philosophy and was a devoted follower of his father-in-law Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, and later of his brother-in-law Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.^[1]

Activities[]

In 1931, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn planned to expand the network of Chabad Yeshivas, known as Tomchei Temimim, in , Ukraine. Rabbi Gurary traveled to investigate yeshivas in Vohlin and to found new yeshivas.

Rabbi Gurary was the director of Tomchei Temimim in Warsaw. He was responsible for delivering Talmudic lectures and hiring other rabbis.

Upon the death of his father-in-law in 1950, he was considered to be a possible candidate to succeed him but soon ceded his position to Rabbi Menachem Mendel.^[2]

He is buried in the Montefiore Cemetery in Cambria Heights, Queens, next to the Chabad Ohel of his father-in-law and the last Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.^[3]

Family[]

Shemaryahu Gurary had a son, Barry Gurary. He became the focus of disputes as an estranged relative to the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty.

Footnotes[]

^ Yosef Yitzchok Kaminetzki, Days of Chabad, Kehot 2002, p. 139
^ Rapoport, C. (2011). The Afterlife of Scholarship A Critical Review of 'The Rebbe' by Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman. Oporto Press. Page 170.
^ Heilman, Samuel; Friedman, Menachem (2012). The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Princeton University Press. p. 54. ISBN 0-691-15442-2.

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

[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.

[3] Heilman, Samuel; Friedman, Menachem (2012). The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Princeton University Press. p. 54. ISBN 0-691-15442-2.

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