My Awesome Experience as a Kidney Donor - Rebbetzin Lori Palatnik

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] in 2007 the almighty gave me an incredible opportunity to do something that it's a little bit unique in 2007 I donated my kidney to a woman I had never met before and I'm here to tell you it was the greatest experience of my life there's no no comparison I want to explain to you what happened but I learned from it how did it all come about and hopefully maybe some of the lessons that I learned it how it impacted my life maybe you can maybe incorporate into your own how did it all begin well I was living in Denver Colorado at the time and my husband told me that he was learning with a guy sort of an older gentleman and he said you notice he wears a beeper and I was like oh my gosh he does and he said that's because he's expecting a kidney he's waiting for a kidney he needs a kidney transplant like oh my gosh so that night I went onto Rabbi Google and I go go kidney kidney transplant kidney donation kidney foundation I really just wanted to know what he was going through so I have to tell you before I started this adventure I didn't even know what might where my kidneys were I didn't know what they did I know I'd kidneys in there somewhere and I know they did something so you have two kidneys and they're in your back just on the lower part of your back there are two four ounce kidneys and what are they they're filters they are you take things into your body they filter anything bad out and make sure that anything good stays in so if

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1. 0:02[Music] in 2007 the almighty gave me an incredible opportunity to do something…
2. 1:41kidney foundation I really just wanted to know what he was going through so I have…
3. 3:48his wife and I said you know maybe I can give you my kidney so obviously…
4. 5:59I have to tell you if it was reversed and he was doing this I would…
5. 8:05like we're going over a bridge and she's hanging out the window and look was like…
6. 10:11had been dragging his feet talk to her rabbi and I rabbi told him this is…
7. 12:20each other she told me her story she was my age seven children the year before…
8. 14:27thinking it's fine fine fine so she showed me pictures of wedding albums marrying off her…
9. 16:38about to go into the surgery and I remember people asked me like was there ever…
10. 18:45the recovery was just whatever it was a few days I laid low for a couple…

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