>> How is putting Tefilin on random people
Haleivi >> our generation is faced with a scenario that was not around previously. Lubavitch aren’t the only ones involved in Kiruv.
I agree that our generation, and several last generations, encountered, and continues, encountering, changes larger than in most other times and we need to figure out a response and it is a hard challenge Hashem is giving us. And we need to give credit where it is due – to those Chabadniks who terelessly stand ask “excuse me are you Jewish” and do a lot of less visible activity than putting a tefilin in the street. … and s indeed many others are now involved with ‘Kiruv”, Chabad started it way earlier, with higher intensity and never used this questionable word that assumes that you are closer to Hashem than the other guy just because you learnt a little more. And maybe some of the undeniable problems the movement has is a side effect of their outreach. As R Miller says: if you put your hand into a fire to save a child, it is the right thing to do, but expect your hand to have burns.
They also made themselves very visible, so everyone has a kashya on Tanya or on their minhagim. A lot of other movements are way more insular. We see that when their views get exposed and debated here, many other groups are also not able to easily defend their views.