The Complexity of Human Rights (Matot-Masei, Covenant & Conversation)
The Office of Rabbi Sacks
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The Importance of Collective Rights in Jewish Life
European emancipation recognized individual rights, but not collective ones. The Torah affirms both because both are necessary to a free society. Judaism insists on the value of those institutions that preserve and protect our identities as members of groups that make them up. We have rights as individuals, but identities only as members of tribes - honoring both is delicate, difficult and necessary.
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