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About Nosson Gurary
Social Security Death Index
Name: Nathan Gurary
SSN: 073-32-3121
Last Residence: 11225 Brooklyn, Kings, New York
Born: 12 Feb 1927
Died: 10 Aug 2005
State (Year) SSN issued: New York (1956-1958 )
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Rabbi Nosson Gurary, a“h , was born on 11 Adar I 5687 (1927) in the city of Dvinsk, Latvia, to a most distinguished family of Chabad Chassidim, descendants of the Maharal of Prague, whose closeness and support of the Rebbeim and Beis HaRav goes back many generations.
As a student in Yeshivas Achei Tmimim in Tel Aviv, he excelled in both the revealed areas of Torah and Chassidus, and at the age of 20, realized his dream of studying in the daled amos of the Frierdiker Rebbe. This trip to Crown Heights marked the beginning of his very close relationship to the Rebbeim. The Rebbe used to call him into his private room (which later became the yechidus room) to type the sichos and maamorim his father-in-law delivered. He was zoche to five yechidusen with the Frierdiker Rebbe. Though only a young bochur, he was zoche many a time to be part of the limited group (due to the Frierdiker Rebbe’s health condition) chosen to daven with the Frierdiker Rebbe. On a certain occasion, after delivering a lengthy and rather complicated maamar, he was honored with maftir in the Frierdiker Rebbe’s minyan.
In 5709, Reb Nosson returned to Eretz Yisroel to marry his first cousin, Rabbi Eliezer Karasik’s daughter Tema, his beloved wife of 56 years, and at the request of the Rebbe, moved with his family to Brooklyn in 5713.
Reb Nosson’s hiskashrus to the Rebbe was legendary. He loved and was loved by the Rebbe and Rebbetzin deeply and was zoche to a relationship unique in his generation. He put the Rebbe’s will before his own. It is said that you can judge a person by the way he gives tzedakah. Reb Nosson would give the Rebbe blank checks and tell the Rebbe to write in any amount he wanted. The Rebbe would count on his tzedakah to carry out his holy work, and it is said that he used it to give out “dollars.”
A master in Dach, Reb Nosson loved learning Chassidus, and from his early yeshivah days was always seen with a maamar or sicha in his hand. His deep Chassidishe discussions as a teenager turned into avodah as an adult, and he bequeathed this passion for Chassidus and hiskashrus to his children and grandchildren.
Reb Nosson was a pioneer in the area of chinuch for girls. In addition to the many hours he spent studying with his sons, he devoted himself to teaching Chassidus to his daughter, a tradition he later continued with his granddaughters. These shiurim in turn were passed on and have been the source of inspiration to thousands of Jewish girls and women throughout the world.
His involvement in his children’s, grandchildren’s, and great-grandchildren’s chinuch was unusual. When he found out he was sick, one of his first calls was to ensure that his great-grandchildren growing up on shlichus without a cheder in town were receiving a true, unadulterated chassidishe chinuch.
He was a true Chassid. He was a yirei shamayim and never wasted a moment. As a pnimi and an ish emes who was modest in his behavior and pleasant in his demeanor, he shunned false compliments and arrogance. He was a man of strong conviction, not swayed by public opinion, and in his quiet way he moved mountains. Dignified and refined, his life was led with modesty and grace.
Understandably, he placed much importance on proper davening. In his tzavah, he requested that the children always daven—even k’rias shema and bentching—in a siddur.
As befitting a true Chassid, R. Nosson returned his neshamah to his Maker, bekedusha vetahara, on the yahrzeit of the AriZal, the 5th of Av, 5765, surrounded by his wife, sisters, and many of his offspring. He left a generation of Rabbanim, Roshei Yeshivos, and Shluchim, and moisdos around the world, devoted to carrying out the Rebbe’s mission in preparing the world to greet Moshiach.
May we have the merit to emulate his ways.
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Nosson Gurary's Timeline
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February 12, 1927
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Daugavpils, Latvia
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August 10, 2005
Age 78
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Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States
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Israel
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Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, United States
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