Originally published in Etta Bick (ed.), Judaic Sources of Human Rights, Tel Aviv: Israel-Diaspora Institute, 1987, pp. 35-41. Dr. Ariel Rosen-Zvi: Our next speaker, Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs, will present the social implications of the concept sheat hadechak. Rabbi Louis Jacobs: I must confess at the outset that I had hoped that we would discuss the…