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Crash Victims Emotional Wedding Day Letter to his Parents

In a letter to his parents on his wedding day last year, Nachman Glauber prayed his marriage would give his parents joy — but he died before he could deliver it.

“I pray to God that daddy and mommy should see lots of pride and delight from me and my special bride,” Glauber wrote in the touching letter that surfaced online Wednesday.

“I feel an obligation to thank you, for everything you did to me, since I was a small child,” he wrote, moments before he stood under the ceremonial chupa with his wife-to-be, Raizel.

The young couple — expecting their first child — died early Sunday in a horrific hit-and-run. Their infant son was delivered posthumously, but he died about 24 hours later.

Glauber had written his letter as a loving thank you to his parents on the cusp of his new life as a husband — and hopefully, a father.

“You did not save time, energy and money, whether it was when I needed a private tutor to learn or an eye doctor or general encouragement …. I want to tell you that all the education and values you taught me I’ll — with God’s help — take along with me in my new home, and continue to plant the same education in my home and kids that God will grant me,” said Glauber’s handwritten note, which was penned in Yiddish (shown above).

He added that he felt a “slight sting in my heart” at the thought of leaving his childhood home.

“Kids do not grasp what parents are, and how much they do for them, and only when he matures and — with God’s help — have their own kids, they could realize it.

“And unfortunately I may have caused you a lot of pain; I am asking you to please forgive me,” Glauber wrote.

His family, sitting shiva for Glauber, 21, his wife, also 21, and the unnamed baby boy, wasn’t available to discuss the note.

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11 Comments

  • wow

    such maturity, Halivay we would all appreciate what our parents did and do for us.

  • amazing

    Shows who he really was. At such a young age to have the sense to write that is truly something amazing

    • Milhouse

      So learn Yiddish. It’s a shandeh that a Lubavitcher doesn’t know enough Yiddish to read this letter. (What good penmanship he had, too!)

  • anon

    i’m so very sad for their families. No parent should outlive their children. Ad mosai….ad mosai…I’ve had enough.

    • Milhouse

      What are you saying? Would it have been better had they died earlier ch”v?! Everyone should live as long as Hashem will grant them, and let us “stand not upon the order of our going” but wish everyone the longest possible life.

    • CH'er

      Thank you Mavin for the tag “NYT”

      All of us Jews and nonJews alike can learn so much from this Letter.

      As I read most of the Comments in the Tag,

      Wish many moments of watery eyed in pain and hurt, I wish all parents to have a son Like Nachman, and bless all children to realize the accomplishments parents hope for them, have the Maturity as needed, to face your mom & dad, Say thank you for all they have done,

      Just so Painful we need to learn these lessons through pain and grief,,

      Thank you again,

      Michael

  • to#6

    did the ny times also mention that this man could not write english, an adult man.

    • Milhouse

      1. How do you know he couldn’t write English?

      2. If it’s true, how is it relevant? Many great chassidim couldn’t write Russian. Being able to write Russian, or English, does not add to avodas Hashem.