Dear Just,
I suspect you know most of my response. Well, here it is.
1) Agreed. But that is not a defense for a public question with people yelling from both sides.
2)If it would be a makom m’yuchid lt’fillah than it should not be used for a direct entrance to the house. Or as a place for the children to play. This is a matter of fact, not p’sak.
3) Tzibbur is a metziyus, not an halachik creation. I think this is the root of our disagreement.
4) I would not feel free. there will be backlash from those who supported it over Yom Tov. See number 7.
5) “what we should do” The question to ask is should we have gone into this topic, or put our mental resources elsewhere. There was a lot of confusion at the time. People did not know that you cannot join your porch minyan in quarantine.
6) Ikkur chasser min hasefer. But it sounds like we agree on this one.
7) My question is, why was minyanim so polarizing? Like we must find a way to have a minyan, was countered with we must shut down every minyan at all costs. Maybe in hindsight everyone could realize that it was not a big question. A better one would have been, how can we keep tabs on (old) people living alone at all costs.
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