By COLlive reporter
On Tuesday, Daled Tishrei, Moishe (Mitchell) Silk, Assistant Treasury Secretary for International Markets, the most senior frum government official and one of the top officials of the US Treasury Department, asked his assistant to clear his schedule for a bit.
This was not for a meeting with his boss, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, or to host yet another international delegation on monetary policy.
It was to commemorate the yahrtzeit of his father, Reb Naftuli ben Shloyme OBM, and he needed to say Kaddish.
A minyan assembled promptly in his ornate office with a beautiful view of the East Wing of the White House, which is only feet away. Silk properly honored the day with Kaddish and a Dvar Torah in a socially distanced setting.
Silk, who resides in Brooklyn but spends most weekdays in DC, usually davens with and is a pillar of the daily morning minyan at the Shul of the Nation’s Capital at Chabad-Lubavitch Center, in Washington, DC, headed by senior Shliach Rabbi Levi Shemtov.
The minyan participants from outside the Department were then treated to a VIP tour of the building.
