Organ Transplant

Does Jewish law permit organ donation? Learn the background to this complex question in this in-depth article.

Judaism holds life as being sacred. For this reason, donating an organ to save a life is one of the highest act of virtue one can do. But sometimes, precisely because life is sacred, organ donation is problematic.

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My elderly mother is adamantly against my doing this. She argues that charity begins at home, and that a relative might need my organ in the future.