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Cs, the rishonim say that chasidei umos haolam must keep all 7 mitzvos bekavanah…im sorry, but most if not almost all goyim today do not, simply because they wouldn’t support the death penalty for toevoa or ni’uf…and the 7th mitzvah is dinin, tbat they need to make courts which carry out the other 6.
Based on the tanya, the michtav meliyahu and others connect it with the rambams shitah that to get into olam haba, one must do s mitzvah totally lishma at some point in their lives. Jews have that capacity, and goyim naturally do not. However they can if thdy work themselves very, very hard, and such people become chasidei umos haolam, like iyov. The “no tzad tov” of the tanya refers to being able to do such a mitzvah, according to rav dessler.
I believe rav dessler got it from rav tzadok hakohen of Lublin, but i don’t remember.
What you quoted from the rambam about lo sichanem is not true; please look it up and you’ll see.
Re, yekkishe rabbonim… it’s not my chidush. Many heterim and attitudes expressed by them have been said to have been horaas shaos to save their community from reform, which was devastating German jewry. Does that mean regular teshuvos from rav hirsch in shemesh merapeh are suspect? Not at all. We’re talking about things like mixed singing at the Shabbos table, handshaking, etc…things that ehrlicher yidden don’t normally do.