- Halacha
- Blood and Organ Donation
Donate body/organs
Question
According to the Halacha, when I die, may I leave instructions for my family to donate my body/organs to science for research or, organs to a hospital for transplant so another person can live?
What does halacha say?
Answer
We have several answers in our Hebrew Responsa and in our English Responsa to the question.
All the Rabbis answering write that one cannot trust the doctors to act with the donated organs as the Halacha instructs and therefore one unfortunately cannot donate organs.

Organ donation
Rabbi Jonathan Blass | 23 Tishrei 5763

Organ Donation
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Cheshvan 20, 5780

Halachic Organ Donor
Various Rabbis | Adar II 18, 5768

Organ donation of non-vital organs
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | 25 Iyyar 5766

Various Rabbis
Various Rabbis including those of of Yeshivat Bet El, such as Rabbi Chaim Katz, Rabbi Binyamin Bamberger and Rabbi Yitzchak Greenblat and others.

Destruction of Divrei Torah
2 Kislev 5763

Backyard Eruv
15 Kislev 5763

Yam Hamelach
28 Kislev 5763

REDEMPTION, Why - What did I do!?
4 Cheshvan 5763
Genesis 24: 2-9 – Put your hand under my thigh
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Tevet 26, 5770

tizku lemtivzot
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Tammuz 7, 5779

Bracha on water
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | Cheshvan 16, 5769
Genesis 24: 2-9 – Put your hand under my thigh
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Tevet 26, 5770

Mitzwoth and Converts
Rabbi David Sperling | Sivan 5, 5783

touching of spouse in aninus and aveilus
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Sivan 5, 5783
rafael or refael
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Iyyar 27, 5783
