Should I Donate A Kidney?

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 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 long. If you don't get a kidney, it's it's mamash, it's the end of it. You have two. Now, don't get me wrong, you need them. You know, that's why God gave them to you. But you can live with one kidney. Now, unlike liver when you donate a part of your liver, your liver grows back, a kidney does not. So, there is obviously a frum organization and they have poskim that say, if you're a good candidate and you could do it, you'll give somebody the gift of life. An unbelievable thing. Now, if you're like me and you have diabetes and heart disease, uh, I'm more in line to be a recipient than I am to be a donor. Right now, they're more or less working okay. >> [laughter] >> We are in horror, you know? But, uh, if you have any health problems or anything like this, then of course not. But if you're in a situation where you can do it, it is an to my understanding is an unbelievable chesed. But like I say, check with a posek, make sure you get it straight. Don't rely on, you know, rabbis talking on the internet. That's not the way we make decisions. Hopefully, you know I'm AI. I may not even exist. So, uh, so that's the idea. It's kedai to look into it, but to my mind, if you're healthy and you can do it, it's an unbelievable chesed. This is Dov bar Lewalski with our question and answer series.