Should I Donate A Kidney?

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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 bar Lewalski with our question and answer series where we answer your questions. So Schwartz asks a question, I am healthy and a good candidate to donate a kidney. Is there any halachic or hashkafic reason not to? Full disclosure, right? Speak to your own posek. I am not a posek. You know, I'm like that guy who has felt comes over and yells at the has felt comes over and yells at the rabbi, you're a crook, you're a liar, you're I'm a heretic, all these terrible things. The rabbi's all upset and the and the shamash says, "Don't listen to him, he just repeats what he hears." So, I just repeat what I hear. I'm a simple guy. There's an entire frum organization dedicated to getting healthy people to give kidneys to people who don't have. People whose kidneys have failed, it's a death sentence. Um, you can only stay on dialysis for so

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1. 0:00Hi, this is Dov bar Lewalski with our question and answer series where we answer your…
2. 0:30has felt comes over and yells at the rabbi, you're a crook, you're a liar, you're…
3. 1:02you can only stay on dialysis for so long. If you don't get a kidney, it's…
4. 1:33a good candidate and you could do it, you'll give somebody the gift of life. An…
5. 2:03to my understanding is an unbelievable chesed. But like I say, check with a posek, make…

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