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The young groom took some moments on his wedding day to write a letter thanking his parents for never sparing time or money if he needed, say, a tutor or an eye doctor, and for sending him to yeshiva “to learn your values, religious and worldly, until I reached to this current lucky moment.”

Children, Nathan Glauber wrote, often do not understand what parents do for them until they mature and have their own children, so he asked them to forgive him for any pain he may have caused them.

“I feel a sting in my heart that I’m already leaving your warm home,” he wrote.

The letter, in Yiddish, has a haunting quality because Mr. Glauber and his pregnant wife, Raizy, were killed Sunday morning by a speeding driver in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as they rode in a livery cab to see a doctor about the health of their fetus. The baby was delivered three months premature but died the next day. The episode has deeply upset the Satmar Hasidic community that they were a part of, if not much of New York.

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On Tuesday and Wednesday, Hasidim were sending BlackBerry messages to one another with photographs of the Yiddish letter, which is signed with the name Nachman, Nathan Glauber’s Hebrew name. The Glauber family is in mourning and could not confirm the letter’s authenticity, but associates of the family say the handwriting is Nathan Glauber’s.

Nathan and Raizy Glauber, both 21, were married roughly a year ago and a photograph shows them smiling in their wedding garb, with Mr. Glauber in a long belted ceremonial coat, his head crowned with a round fur shtreimel. Hasidim do not customarily write such letters to their parents before a wedding, said Rabbi David Niederman, executive director of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg.

Here is the text of a translation provided by a reader and reviewed by Rukhl Schaechter, a journalist with the Yiddish Daily Forward: