We live in a modern world confronted with many issues that could never have been imagined in the times when Jewish law (halacha) was being codified. In light of this fact, Rabbi Yisroel Fried, emissary to the Upper West Side of Manhattan, tackles the issue of the flexibility of halacha.
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