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?
2. Has there been any advice to Mohelim who normally do Metzitza bPeh
to cease the practice at this time?
3. Does a Rav have a Chiyuv as Mesader Kiddushin to cease proceedings
until there is (in Australia) 4 meters square between people
4. Does a Caterer have a Chiyuv to cease serving food at a Simcha or
the like if it too is breaching guidelines?
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.
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.
If the town's rabbis believe a certain measure is necessary for
medical reasons, but there is no similar law, then it is okay to ask
the magistrate to get the police to enforce it. But, if they believe
the measure is necessary AND it is necessary by law, it's not okay to
have the police there to break up any violations?
Are you assuming that the government might imprison or fine violators,
rather than prevent or break up violations? Because this isn't what
is happening in any of the stories I know of. I didn't think that was
even an option in play when I used your post to answer R/DIB's.
Yes, I am assuming that. People are getting fines, in various places, including Melbourne, where RIB lives. But I'm also asserting a fundamental difference between a *recommendation* that a shul have a policeman to help enforce the rules that a it has made on its own property, versus some uninvolved bystander having a *chiyuv* to *report* to the authorities a violation of *their* rules.
Even if you agree with the authorities' rules, and even if you think compliance is a chiyuv, it's a question that needs answering whether you are even *allowed* to inform on someone who is breaking them, let alone whether you have a chiyuv to do so. After all, the people breaking the rules presumably disagree with you on the rules' advisability let alone on their obligatory nature, and they're breaking them on their turf, not yours. So it's very different from RAE's case.