To her there is a rigidity about Halacha, which demands steps that are counter to her nature. That is what she comes up against. It is liberating for her also, to come up against a boundary, since she is a person who longs for boundaries. Again, that has to do with Sharon. It does not have to do with my own authorial perspective.
Readers come to it with their own ideas.
She finds her limit with the Bialystokers. Or they find their limit with her. I grew up in Hawaii in a small Jewish community. Our family was traditional. We had kosher meat shipped from California every six months, stored it in a big freezer.