Behar: Human Rights and Social Justice
Parashat Behar contains numerous mitzvoth dealing with social justice including many that form the foundations of the Jewish approach to Human Rights
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"Wash you, make you clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes, cease to do evil...learn to do well...seek judgement...relieve the oppressed...judge the fatherless...plead for the widow"
Isaiah 1:16-17
.Ensure Economic Justice
"..Do not steal from the
poor, for they are oppressed, nor should you oppress the
downtrodden.."
proverbs 22:22
Guarantee Agricultural Access
"..Thou shalt neither vex
a stranger, nor oppress him..If thou at all afflict them, &
they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry.."
exodus 22:20-22
Protect Housing Rights
"..Woe to them that devise
iniquity..taking them by violence; & houses, & take them
away: so they oppress a man & his house, even a man & his
heritage.."
micah 2:1-2