 He married Mina Haskind, the daughter of Alter Haskind from a prominent Chabad family.Barry Gurary's family relationship with the Rebbe was a source of struggle and friction to himself, the Gurary families and the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic community.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, while Rabbi Shemaryahu Gurary, Barry Gurary's father, held on to the same positions 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.