General comment on this tznius discussion: what exactly do you non chababakers propose? That anyone who is not 100% tznius should be banned from crown heights? Or from entering a shul? Enforced by police?
Which other shul or community has such a thing?
Growing up chabad, many of my friends were sons of baalai tshuvah, their mothers and sisters kept tznius 100%, but when they first came to a pesach Seder or shul, they did not, you can’t put shaitels for everything to put on when they come to shul, and although the shuls try to encourage people to dress modest, 1) people coming by the beginning don’t understand all the halachos of tznius, 2) (as far as I know) we don’t hold of enforcement of not letting someone In who is dressed not tznius 1) she’s on the women side so it’s not an issue for men davening 2) we see how such people slowly become more and more frum (besides for the fact that every mitzvah is important to hashem as explained In Tanya. Like I mentioned before.
There are 613 mitzvos in the Torah, if a person is not ready to keep all, he or she should definitely keep what he can and מצוה גוררת מצוה,
If we shut the doors to anyone who doesn’t dress 100% tznius, then those women will leave the community totally (as happens all over in other communitys), so I guess you hold it’s better so that it won’t effect the “frum” but we hold different. If you bring a proof from דברי חז”ל that your way is correct, I can try to prove our way.
I just think that next time you kick out a girl from shul who is not dressed tzniusdik, tell she that chabad will welcome her, or you can put on the sign “don’t come into our shul untznius, if you need a shul go to chabad.”
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