To philosopher
You’re correct that Chabad Kiruv is essentially worthless. As an aside, almost all Kiruv is a waste of time and money. The reason we hear so much about it is because many superrich Jews think it’s a noble way to spend their Tzedakah money, but that’s not the point I want to make. The question we should consider is why Hashem gave His Haskama to all these Chabad Houses. One answer, no one has a right to suggest that he knows exactly why Hashem does anything, is because when the Mechallels that Chabad reaches out to come to the next world at 120 Hashem will ask them why they didn’t eat Kosher, as an example. They’ll answer, “How was I supposed to know about Kosher, my parents weren’t religious?” Hashem will say to them, “Didn’t you attend your Chabad Rabbi’s Purim Party?” They’ll answer yes. Then Hashem will nail them, “Didn’t the Rabbi offer to come and Kasher your home and do it for free?” They’ll have no choice but to answer yes and then Hashem will say checkmate and show them the down elevator. Always Ask wrote on February 26 that total non-observance makes one a Tinok Shenishba. That is not only a lie it’s absolute Kefirah. Only Hashem can decide who is a Tinok Shenishba. To “pasken” otherwise puts one in the same category as Manis Friedman who decided that a Jew can eat a ham and cheese sandwich on Pesach, on pumpernickel, and nothing will happen to him. “Always,” always finds some Rabbi to quote out of context and so he’ll cite the Chazon Ish, but we must know what he meant and when it can be applied, but again, Tinok Shenishba is not a get out of jail free card.
Now let me share my story. I went to Yeshiva for 12 years and in that time perhaps I learned for 12 days. That I now learn about 7 hours a day is Mamash a Nes. I will attribute it to three factors. First, Zchus Avos. My mother, AH, told me that on my father’s side I descend from great Galitziyaner Rebbes, including perhaps, Rav Meir Premishlan. Second, growing up on the LES, I saw many outstanding Rabbis and while I wasn’t fully frum, I was influenced in that I knew the difference between real and fake Judaism. Finally, I have a Middah for truth which I got from my parents. When I was about 15 my mother and I went to visit her father. When I got there, he gave me “Al Harosh” in his Yinglish. “Look vat kind grendson I got, I got a bum for a grendson. All de boys geien tze sheel in der free, but this bum geit never nish tze sheel.” I was so shocked by his outburst, because he was generally so sweet. Of course, I didn’t act, at the time, on what he said, but that changed about 15 years later. I was in a shul in my new neighborhood on Shabbos morning (that was the only time I went to shul.) Some old man heard that I was a dentist and he said, “You ah dentist, and you go to shul that’s beautiful.” At that moment I remembered my Zeide’s tirade and I said to myself, “You were right I was a bum and I’m still a bum.” It took me two years to straighten out, and the process continues. The point is that this is who I am. I don’t believe in Hashem, I know in Hashem and I know that Lubavitchers, and those who support them have no Sheiches to G-d. I know how much I’m hated online but I could care less. Someone has to stand up for the Torah which is being abused by ostensibly Orthodox Jews.