[Avodah] Righteous Gentile is Equal to the Kohein Godol

[Marty Bluke]

R' Meir Kahan asked:
<How does this position of RSRH comport with "Rotzah HKBH Lzakos es yisroel
Lfichach hirbah l'hem Torah Umitzvos"?
If a non Jew can get the same Schar for performing 7 mitzvos as a Jew can
<for 613, what is the zchus?

RSRH is really quoting the Gemara in Bava Kama 38a which makes this
statement. Take a look at the Rashba there who asks a very similar
question, how can he be like a Kohen Gadol, after all the gemara says
that he only gets rewarded as an ayno metzubeh v'oseh? He doesn't give
an answer. The Rashba there also writes that the Torah that the gemara
is talking about is only the seven mitvos of Bnei Noach as a goy is
prohibited from learning torah.

The Shita quotes a Raah who says that the gemara is using a "lashon
guzma", the gemara is exaggerating when saying that a goy can become
like a kohen gadol.

A number of acharonim point out that a talmid chacham has priority
over a kohen gadol am haaretz and therefore we can answer that a goy
can only reach the level of a kohen gadol but a Jew who learns Torah
can reach even higher then the Kohen Gadol.