Should You Donate Blood?

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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.

Hi, this is Dov Lavsky with our question answer series where in a few minutes we try to answer questions from our listeners. Now, this person is apparently in Florida and I'm guessing from the question he lives in Boca Raton. There's a blood drive in Boca. That's that was the hint that I picked up on. >> [snorts] >> Yeah, that goes to the local hospital. I believe that Boca is like 50% Yidden. Some percentage from and some that is Some percentage from and some that is not. Is it at least a Kiddush Hashem? 100% I want to I want to tell you something that uh um is a scary. Uh I knew somebody who needed a heart. Needed a heart transplant. Now, we have a problem giving donating hearts uh because um you can't really be dead. If you're dead, then the heart stops and then it's

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1. 0:00Hi, this is Dov Lavsky with our question answer series where in a few minutes we…
2. 0:30Some percentage from and some that is not. Is it at least a Kiddush Hashem? 100%…
3. 1:01dead, then the heart stops and then it's no good anymore. You have to take the…
4. 1:31alive. So, that's why for us it's obviously problematic. A lot of donations are problematic. A…
5. 2:02So, I heard somebody say, you know, we don't give organs to from Jews cuz they…
6. 2:32that to me is a no-brainer. It's it's First of all, half of it's going to…
7. 3:03blood, we definitely should. That's my opinion. I would encourage anybody who can. They won't take…

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