Border policeman Binyamin Yakobowitz HY”D, who was murdered in a terrorist car ramming attack last week, was buried on Monday evening 27 Cheshvan. He was gravely injured in the attack and died this week. Prior to kevura his family agreed to donate his organs to save others.
Officials in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital report the niftar’s liver and a kidney went to one patient, a, 54-year-old man who received the organs in a 10-hour surgery. The surgery was performed by Dr. Hadar Merchav, who heads Hadassah’s transplant unit. He explained the patient was dying of liver disease, which also destroyed his kidneys. “The transplant definitely saved his life and due to the recent deteriorating in his condition, the surgery was long, difficult and complicated. To our pleasure, the organs appears to be accepted well by the body”.
Photo: Dr. Hadar Merchav
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem / Photo: Hadassah spokesman’s office)
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The statement is not to take away from the story however is this allowed halachiclly? I thought that all the body parts are supposed to be buried.
It’s halachically permitted to donate organs to save someone else’s life?
Against halacha of course. And to
ywn it’s not news worthy when someone violates Halacha. All your doing is promoting chillul hashem. And please editor don’t bore us & waste our with some bogus psak from some anonymous rav to justify the one.
Moderators Note: Interesting…..How about we don’t waste our time with some bogus comment from some anonymous blogger (ANON21) to justify the one?
Just saying.
Yes! It is permitted to donate organs to save a life! Due to the inability to be sure where the organs are going, many won’t sign up as organ donors blanketly. But if one is going to be mekayem nefesh achas b’Yisroel, it is definitely permitted.
i think if they are alive you can, but after you die you cant but dont quote me on this one
How about we make a policy that the murderer, if shot dead during the crime, gets his or her organs harvested?
To commentators #1 and #2, yes it’s halachically permitted according to many great Rabbonim.
It is therefore permitted to those who rely upon their opinions.
Other Rabbonim disagree and would not have allowed the family to save this other man’s life.
Absolutely if you are dead and there are opinions that it is a chiyuv.
Absolutely if you are alive but it is not a chiyuv according to any opinion I have ever seen.
The only question is the definition of halachic death which is beyond the scope of what can be addressed in a comment thread.
There is a problem with donating a heart.
In this case, donating a liver and a kidney is far less of a shailah.
Furthermore, if organs are viable after death, it would be even less of a shialah, but most are not viable.