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Lost1970:
How should I know. There are so many other smart, intelligent individuals that frequent this fabulous place, the CR. Then, of course there are numerous organizations that do kiruv, they have the right resources to do it right. To make someone feel at home, validate their feelings, emotions. Explain Torah concepts in a way that will be understood better. Me? I wouldn’t know, else I’d too be a baal teshuva – I could sure use some teshuva.
That being said, I don’t truly get the picture (from what you’ve chosen to reveal), that you’re unobservant, or not frum in any way now. Is your problem that you feel you don’t have time or want to expend attention to Torah and mitzvhos? A lot of us (you’d call frummies) do that too. Many have degrees, professions, jobs, things they must devote their time (and lives) to. That’s the way Hashem made the world. As Medresh (Eicha) says “If I don’t work by day, I won’t eat by night”. Hashem fashioned the world just so that one must somewhat devote attention to the mundane. The only difference is how much, the balance. And that is the difference between one who has chosen to be an oved Hashem, and one who “will just do” – a practicing Jew, keeping all mitzvohs.
An oved Hashem will direct his mind constantly to HaShem ????? ?` ????? ????, and work and do the mundane the barest minimum. Others fall for the temptations of the worldly trappings, and forget the main thing, the ikkar.
To sum it up, I get the picture you’re already “here” just an additional “boost” maybe is needed.