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]
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
^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.
References
Avrum M. Ehrlich, Messiah of Brooklyn: Understanding Lubavitch Hasidism Past and Present
Avrum M. Ehrlich, Leadership in the HaBaD Movement
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