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From Priest to People (Rabbi Sacks on Kedoshim, Covenant & Conversation)

The Office of Rabbi Sacks

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The Origin of Human Rights

The concept of human rights comes from the seventeenth century. Democracy was not fully implemented until the twentieth but already, in genesis one, the seed was planted. That is what jefferson meant in his famous words, we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal.

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