Must someone occupied with communal needs interrupt to recite Shema?
Synopsis
One engaged in communal needs (tzibbur affairs) at the time of Shema does not interrupt but finishes his affairs and recites if time remains — based on the principle that one engaged in one mitzvah is exempt from another.
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