2023-11-26 20:32:00
The elected president Javier Miley attended a traditional Jewish celebration on Saturday night in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Balvanera, where received the blessing of Mekuval Rabbi David Pinto Shlita, who expressed his hope that the government that will begin next December 10 is successful for Argentina. After this event, this Sunday he travels to the United States to visit the grave of a famous rabbi in New York. Then he will have work meetings in Washington and there is expectation for the possible presence of Luis Caputo on the journey.
Javier Milei’s trip to the United States: visit to a Jewish tomb and work meetings
And agenda, The libertarian economist will travel to the United States this Sunday, before his inauguration, to visit the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as “the Lubavitch Rebbe,” an influential rabbi of the international Jewish community who died in the last century. The visit to the tomb of the religious leader “has a more spiritual connotation than other characteristics. I am going to stop by to give thanks for this mission that I have to carry out,” Milei explained in different journalistic interviews.
Santiago Caputo, the main advisor of the elected president, will participate in the delegation who will have his first stop in New York to visit “El Ohel”. Then she will head to Washington for business meetings.
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From Milei’s press team they indicated that “first he goes to the OHEL in New York to give thanks for the place that HASHEM (God) has given you“and then he will hold work meetings in Washington, in which it is not known whether Luis “Toto” Caputo, the former Macrista official who is being considered to occupy the position of Minister of Economy, will also participate.
“A priori it is a personal journey. There is no closed institutional agenda yet,” they added from the libertarian space. However, libertarian sources indicated that following his time in New York, the economist will travel to Washington with Caputo for activities scheduled there.
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For its part, the United States embassy in Argentina stated that Ambassador Marc Stanley was helping coordinate meetings with U.S. government officials. In this regard, the diplomat stated last Friday in a press conference that there are efforts to offer Milei a high-level meeting on her imminent trip to the United States.
“I invited him to meet with officials, there is a good chance that this will happen,” he said. He later detailed that it would be “a single high-level meeting” with representatives of the Treasury Department, the State Department and those responsible for Latin America like Kevin Sullivan, always with an “exploratory, to get to know each other” character because “Milei is not yet the President.”
Milei received a blessing from a renowned rabbi and participated in a Jewish celebration
The deputy participated in the Havdalah, ceremony of separation of Shabbat from the rest of the days that make up the week. Havdalah marks the end of Shabbat, the seventh day of the week in the Hebrew calendar and, in turn, the holy day in rabbinic Judaism. The meeting took place in a house of religious studies located on Viamonte Street, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Balvanera, indicated the Jewish News Agency (JNA).
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As part of the ceremony, Milei received the blessing of Rabbi Pinto Shlita and was immortalized in a video that quickly went viral on social networks. “I celebrate this beautiful country, Argentina, and I ask God to protect the Argentine Nation so that it returns to what it was before. I am sure that with the help of God you will help the Nation and, with the people of Argentina, you will achieve it“, expressed Pinto Shilta in English when receiving Milei, who also chose to respond in English: “Thank you, thank you, rabbin.”
Along with Milei was her sister and main advisor, Karina, who also received a blessing from the rabbi, like the mother of both, Alicia Luján Lucich, who was not present at the Havdalah ceremony. In that sense, the rabbi asked the next head of state for the name of his mother to extend the blessing and in an error of interpretation, the founder of La Libertad Avanza (LLA) responded with the name of his sister. Corrected, he did the same and Lucich also received sacralization.
Milei’s actions are consistent with his repeated expressions in which he assured that he exhaustively studies the Torah and his desire to make the final conversion to Judaism. “I don’t go to church, I go to the temple. I have a rabbi at my bedside. I study the Torah,” Milei was able to tell in an interview that he starred in in September, in the middle of the campaign, and completed: “I am recognized internationally as a friend of Israel. I’m close to being a Jew, all I need is the blood pact“.
In recent days, he expressed his absolute support for Israel in the open conflict with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas and announced that will move the Argentine Embassy from Hertzlia to Jerusalem. After being elected in the last presidential runoff, Milei commented on several occasions that he plans to travel for “spiritual reasons,” as he explained, to New York and Israel.
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