Shemaryahu Gurary, also known by his
Hebrew
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initials as Rashag, (1897-1989) was a
rabbi
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following the
Chabad-Lubavitch
Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch (), is an Orthodox Jewish Hasidic dynasty. Chabad is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements, particularly for its outreach activities. It is one of the largest Hasidic group ...
dynasty of
Hasidism
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. His father was Menachem Mendel Gurary. He was a son-in-law of
Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn
Yosef Yitzchak (Joseph Isaac) Schneersohn ( yi, יוסף יצחק שניאורסאהן; 21 June 1880 – 28 January 1950) was an Orthodox rabbi and the sixth Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad Lubavitch Chasidic movement. He is also known a ...
, the sixth Chabad-Lubavitch
rebbe
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, and the brother-in-law of
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Menachem Mendel Schneerson (Modern Hebrew: מנחם מענדל שניאורסון; old-fashioned spelling: מנחם מענדל שניאורסאהן; April 5, 1902 OS – June 12, 1994; AM 11 Nissan 5662 – 3 Tammuz 5754), known to man ...
, the seventh. He worked with his father-in-law in Russia and Poland and moved to the U.S. in 1940.
Biography
He was the director in
Warsaw
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of the
Tomchei Temimim
Tomchei Tmimim ( he, תומכי תמימים, "supporters of the complete-wholesome ones") is the central Yeshiva (Talmudical academy) of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. Founded in 1897 in the town of Lubavitch by Rabbi Sholom Do ...
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.
[Rapoport, C. (2011). ''The Afterlife of Scholarship A Critical Review of 'The Rebbe' by Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman''. Oporto Press. Page 170.]
Gurary's son
Barry Gurary Barry Gurary (also: Gourary, Sholom Dovber or Berke) (b. in Rostov-on-Don, Russia February 10, 1923, d. Montclair, New Jersey, United States March 14, 2005) was a rabbi. He was the nephew of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Lubavitcher rebbe ...
had disputes with the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty.
Footnotes
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
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1897 births
1989 deaths
Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis
Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn