[Avodah] Corona related questions

[Zev Sero]

On 25/3/20 6:37 pm, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 10:29:28PM +1100, Dr. Isaac Balbin via Avodah wrote:
>> 1. You see or know of a minyan, kibbutz anashim, etc that are breaching
>> government Corona guidelines. Do you have a chiyuv to report them vis
>> a vis Lo Sa'amod?
> 
> I think an earlier post already told us that RAEiger held yes.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 09:42:51PM -0400, Zev Sero via Avodah wrote:
>> There is a letter from Rabbi Akiva Eiger (Igeres Sofrim #29) about a cholera
>> epidemic, in which he suggests that minyanim be limited to 15 men each,
>> davening in shifts starting at dawn, and each person be assigned a minyan
>> that he is to attend.  He also suggested that the government be asked to
>> station a policeman at the shul door to enforce the 15-man maximum.


No, that letter doesn't tell us anything about R Yitzchok's question. 
In that case there was no government regulation or guideline.  RAE 
suggested that the *Jews* impose a restriction on themselves, and ask 
the government to send a policeman to enforce it.  And not by punishing 
people who break it (impossible, since they would have broken no law) 
but simply by preventing them from entering the shul while it was at 
capacity.    So we don't know how RAE would answer the question posed here.


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