Background
His father was Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gurary. He worked with his father-in-law in communal service in both Russia and Poland and then arrived in the United States. in 1940, where he continued this work until his death.
His father was Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gurary. He worked with his father-in-law in communal service in both Russia and Poland and then arrived in the United States. in 1940, where he continued this work until his death.
Rabbi Gurary travelled 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.
Shemaryahu Gurary had one son, who was named Sholom Dovber and called Barry. He was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. on November 2, 1923, and died in Montclair, New Jersey, United States March 3, 2005.
Barry Gurary was an ordained non-practicing Orthodox rabbi and physicist.
