<div dir="ltr">Me: ...most of us also live in an "outside world" that is highly egalitarian...And I don't think it is wrong for
those changes in the experiences of women and couples and families and communities to affect religious practice, to move us in a somewhat more egalitarian direction WITHIN what is halachically permitted.<div><br></div><div>RJR: <span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Would it be correct to say that the general case of this argument is that as long as it can be argued that something is halachically permitted (which many seem
to define as not totally halachically forbidden by r’mb’s black letter law), then we can accept it without asking whether HKB”H prefers it? </span></div><div><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Me: No!!! But does HKB"H really prefer that psak and practice should be identical for each community and each generation?</span></font></div><div><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">- Ilana</span></font></div></div>