Billionaire distributed thousands of dollars and said: "Eat on the house"
Chilean billionaire Leonardo Julio Farkas - Klein, arrived at the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, and distributed free meals and thousands of dollars to all comers • asked: "Please say a blessing for the elevation of my mother's soul"
- Yonah Shub, B'Chadrei Charedim
- ט"ז אייר התשע"ג
The talk of the day in Williamsburg this week was the visit to the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of the billionaire who distributed free meals and thousands of dollars to all.
On Monday Julio Leonardo Farkas Klein – arrived for a business visit in Manhattan. That evening, on the anniversary of the death of his mother, he came to the Williamsburg neighborhood to pray.
After the prayer, he asked to hold a feast for the soul of his mother, and he went to a nearby grill restaurant.
Philanthropist, 46, entered the Grill restaurant and announced he invites everyone to a free dinner. "There were people inside, people were standing outside, and he said take and eat whatever they want," said one of the witnesses to the VIN. "People ate grilled chicken, steaks - and he paid. People were waiting in line to pay, and he said to them, 'No, I'll pay. You just eat and make a blessing."
When the billionaire learned of the Hatzalah organization event being held nearby near, he visited the site and there I made sure that food will be sent to all participants at his expense.
Finally he gave every employee in the grill store a tip of 400 dollars in cash, and met every request for help which was whispered to him.
Farkas, who considered running for president in Chile in 2008, is the son of Hungarian Jews who had immigrated to South America in 1939.
He owns iron mines and is known as a superlative philanthropist in his country. He made headlines when he contributed an unprecedented amount of two million dollars in his country for the benefit of disabled children.
On Monday Julio Leonardo Farkas Klein – arrived for a business visit in Manhattan. That evening, on the anniversary of the death of his mother, he came to the Williamsburg neighborhood to pray.
After the prayer, he asked to hold a feast for the soul of his mother, and he went to a nearby grill restaurant.
Philanthropist, 46, entered the Grill restaurant and announced he invites everyone to a free dinner. "There were people inside, people were standing outside, and he said take and eat whatever they want," said one of the witnesses to the VIN. "People ate grilled chicken, steaks - and he paid. People were waiting in line to pay, and he said to them, 'No, I'll pay. You just eat and make a blessing."
When the billionaire learned of the Hatzalah organization event being held nearby near, he visited the site and there I made sure that food will be sent to all participants at his expense.
Finally he gave every employee in the grill store a tip of 400 dollars in cash, and met every request for help which was whispered to him.
Farkas, who considered running for president in Chile in 2008, is the son of Hungarian Jews who had immigrated to South America in 1939.
He owns iron mines and is known as a superlative philanthropist in his country. He made headlines when he contributed an unprecedented amount of two million dollars in his country for the benefit of disabled children.
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