Neville- my point was that I wasn’t here r to argue nor have my mind changed. Whether my quest is doable is separate from it being what I have been doing here. And I never heard any of those things you mention, which is why I came to be informed. And when I hear something I have always been taught was wrong, how can I not want to know how someone can justify such a thing.
So we now have chossid telling us very politely and straight that Chabad puts a house in a Frum neighborhood because it is their mission to spread chassidus to those who aren’t. Perhaps he doesn’t know that the posters before him insisted they don’t approach the frum (and some just avoided answering). So did they lie? What’s with that?
Chossid, I feel obligated to tell you, because you seem to care, that when you give sincere answers that contain information we know to be against Torah, we will fight you. Not because we hate Chabad, but because we love Hashem. If you will not be able to see the responses in that light, you may want to bow out. Nobody has yet allowed us to defend Torah as we know it without calling us all sorts of things. Just as you may aggressively defend your beliefs, you should expect no less from us as we have been hearing very disturbing practices and attitudes and are following our Gedolim and Torah.