FT. LAUDERDALE, FL — Shattered by the murders in Mumbai, one energy magnate is picking up the pieces by making a significant contribution to a Florida Chabad center.
Young Energy Magnate Promises ‘Taking Care of Chabad A Priority’
FT. LAUDERDALE, FL — Shattered by the murders in Mumbai, one energy magnate is picking up the pieces by making a significant contribution to a Florida Chabad center.
Rabbi Moshe Meir Lipszyc announced today that Guma L. Aguiar, co-founder of Leor Energy, an oil exploration and production company based in East Texas, contributed an additional half million dollars to Chabad Lubavitch of Fort Lauderdale. The center will be renamed “The Guma Aguiar Family Campus.”
“Guma has a heart of gold,” said Rabbi Lipszyc. In recent years, he’s funded much of Chabad of Ft. Lauderdale’s dynamic growth. “He’s now agreed to make his most recent contribution public because he wants to show the world that this is how Chabad responds to the oppressive darkness of terrorism, by taking action and growing.”
Aguiar, 31, told Lubavitch.com that, like the rest of the world, he was stunned by the news of the terror attacks in India. Groping for answers, Aguiar considered Chabad’s place in the world.
“Chabad, by definition, is right there, on the front lines, helping Jews.”
Just five years ago, Aguiar encountered Chabad’s kindness personally. Born Jewish and raised by parents who accepted a different faith, Aguiar knew little of his Jewish heritage until he and a few friends stepped into Chabad of Fort Lauderdale one Friday evening.
Spread the wealth!
He should give some of that to Mumbai to rebuild there and to Moshe Holtzberg fund!
C.K.
What a beautiful tremendous act of Tzedakah this is. We should be comforted that Chabad has such noble and generous friends as Mr. Aguiar and may Hashem bless him, his wife and newborn baby with many years of health, happiness and Nachas.