Changing to minhagim chabad . Grew up orthodox.

If I thought that being a Chabadnik were the best way to serve hashem, I would obviously be a Chabadnik

And if Chabadnikim thought they were right and you were wrong they'd be out trying to make you Chabadnik. The same could be said for any Chassidus, most of which are pretty insular.

But there's nothing wrong with believing you've got it right, and that a contradictory hashkafa has got it wrong.

There's everything wrong with it. Why are you not Bobov? Why are you not a Brisker? Or a Rambamist? Or MO Neo-chassidic? Or Chardal? Or Baladi? Or Karliner? Etc etc

Is it because you think those hashgafos are actively wrong or because they aren't the customs and beliefs you've been brought up with or actively exposed to?

There are literally thousands of competing nuances in Orthodoxy among groups - United under our observance and belief of Torah being given to Moshe at Sinai - and one is not more "right" than any other. Just different.

Believing your way exclusively is correct is hubris and - even worse - does not have a source in Jewish thought. See the Rambam, Perush HaMishnayos, who clearly explains the difference between hashgafa and halacha. In the latter there needs to be one conclusion but in the former that need not be true. There is no psak for hashgafa (and given how many nuances in it have existed throughout our history, it shows)

This is where the interpretation of 70 faces of Torah, or this and this are words of Hashem, comes to mean an acceptance and even encouragement of differing views within Torah Judaism.

By all means, continue to believe only you have it right, but don't be surprised if you get called out for being needlessly intolerant and arrogant to think so.

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