Barry Gurary - The Place of Barry Gurary in Chabad-Lubavitch

The Place of Barry Gurary in Chabad-Lubavitch

During the lifetime of the sixth Rebbe, Barry Gurary's father, Rabbi Shemaryahu Gurary (known in Lubavitch by his initials as RaSHaG) (1898–1989) held the position of Director of the Central Lubavitcher Yeshiva - Tomchei Temimim.

One year after the death of sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson became the choice of most Lubavitchers as the seventh Rebbe of the movement, the second time a son-in-law had ever held such a position in the movement (the third rebbe was a grand son of the first rebbe and his father in law who was the second rebbe was also his uncle (he married his cousin), while Rabbi Shemaryahu Gurary, Barry Gurary's father, did not gain popular support and instead held on to the same positions of power he had in the past, and was loyal to his brother-in-law, who had become the seventh and was to be the last Rebbe of Chabad.