Monsey, NY – Sefer Torah Being Written In Memory Of Glauber Family

Monsey, NY – Just days after the horrific deaths of Nachman and Raizy Glauber, friends and family members are attempting to put together a lasting tribute to the couple and their unborn son in an attempt to perpetuate their legacy for future generations.

“We received numerous phone calls from people suggesting that we write a Sefer Torah in their memory,” Avrum Yosef Friedman, Nachman Glauber’s uncle, told VIN News. “The second we found out that the baby had passed away, I knew we had to do it, because it meant that neither of them had left anything behind in this world.”

The Sefer Torah is being written with the approval of the Glauber family who, according to Friedman, feels it is an important tribute to the young couple and appreciates that there are so many people who want to participate in the project, which is endorsed by Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Moskowitz, Rav of Monsey’s Kehilas Borov , co-director of Tomchei Shabbos of Rockland County and Nachman Glauber’s former Rosh Yeshiva.

“This tragedy is not just a personal tragedy or a family tragedy, it is a tragedy that hit the entire klal and this is an opportunity for people to do something for this wonderful family whose lives were extinguished so tragically,” explained Israel Rosenberg, a family friend who is involved in coordinating the effort. “People very much wanted the opportunity to participate in something meaningful, that would be a zechus for their neshamos, something tangible to honor them.”

A web site that went live today, www.nachmanandraizy.com, was set up by friends and family of the Glauber family and is accepting contributions from the public for the Sefer Torah. Any donations received beyond the cost of the Sefer Torah will be used for the Leil Shishi Shovavim learning program which, according to Rosenberg, was started by Nachman Glauber when he was just fourteen years old and reportedly now has over five hundred people coming to learn on Thursday nights during the weeks of Shovavim from 2 to 6 AM, followed by two hours of Tehillim.

Friedman praised his nephew, calling him an “amazing, bachaynte yingel.”

“Nachmi was so eidel, was so full of life,” said the relative. “The nurses in the hospital were crying when they saw him because it was obvious even to them that he had so much chayn. I never saw him worry and I never saw him get mad.

Someone came to the shiva, an alta bochur who never got married and was somewhat neglected. Nachmi saw him on the street once and took out two dollars and gave it to him. He said to him, ‘Your tzitzis are so yellow, how come you go like that?’ The bochur responded that he didn’t have money to buy new ones and had no one to wash them for him. Nachmi invited him up to his apartment where he not only washed the tzitzis, he ironed them as well.”

Details continue to emerge, painting Nachman Glauber as a sensitive, caring individual and the New York Times published a (http://nyti.ms/YzcKML) letter Wednesday that Glauber wrote to his parents on the day of his wedding.

In the letter, which is written in Yiddish, Glauber thanked his parents for lovingly raising him and guiding him in his Torah studies and religious values and expressed his hope to pass those same values onto his own children. Glauber also asked his parents to pray for him and his kallah and offered a bracha of his own to his parents.

“Bashefer should help that Tatte and Mamme, they should live and be well, should see much nachas and glick from me and my choshuve kallah till one hundred and twenty, till the days that we welcome Moshiach Tzidkeinu.”

Rosenberg, a close friend of Nachman’s father, said that the family is still reeling from the tragedy and that plans are in place to have the hakamas matzeiva on Sunday.

“How can it be that parents can work for twenty years, day and night, to raise a child and then just lose their son in the dark of night? How can it be that grandparents who went through the hell of the Holocaust still haven’t paid their bill in full? How big can one’s bill possibly be?” asked Rosenberg. “Yet despite the fact that this is so difficult to comprehend, we trust completely in the Ribono Shel Olam who will give us all the strength to continue with our lives, while carrying this unbearable pain.”

“I knew Nachman very well,” added Rosenberg, who recalls seeing Glauber just three weeks ago at his baby brother’s vachtnacht. “He was unbelievable. I know very few people who grow in life as much as Nachman did. The gemara says that when puranyos comes to the world, it comes because of the reshaim, but it happens to the tzadikim. The family is broken, heartbroken. Only the Ribono Shel Olam can be menachem them.”