For more than two weeks, my wife and I have been with our five children at home. They were released from the "Hyder" where they study on the day that was announced in Israel for their school break. Like us, all the neighbors and friends in Bnei Brak, my city of residence. But a very small, though noisy handful of people from the marginalized fringes of the ultra-Orthodox sector, who gathered for the funeral the day before, managed to tarnish us with the ultra-Orthodox - who, for the most part, our vast and utterly adhering to the instructions on these simple days.

Yesterday morning I was still praying for a quorum of only ten people, my neighbors, who gathered in open space between the buildings below. In the afternoon, I prayed alone at home, without a quorum. My children saw for the first time in their lives a father who prays a prayer at home, alone, and not in the minyan, as instructed.

As long as the quorum could be maintained, even outside the synagogue and strictly two meters away from each other, we did. Yesterday, when the order was to stop with this as well, and received an unmissable halachic seal from the great generation of Rabbi Haim Kanievsky, we stopped.

"Killers," so called the sector last night those who attended the same funeral on Saturday night, or those - a very small handful - who insist on praying full-time and putting themselves and their loved ones at risk of life.

Prayer was given by our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but its formula and its laws were already joined by the great generations of later generations. The great ones of our generation, in our generation, are adding topical halacha: no one is praying at the moment, and there is no gathering for any need. A person who is currently going through these regulations - which are not only medical, but also halakhic - to pray at a quorum or attend a funeral, certainly does not obey it. The same sages who taught us the importance of minyan prayer, now teach us the obligation to pray individually.

About people who still behave differently and supposedly congregate for mitzvah purposes, it is already said "dip and run with their hands."