What could be a bigger “sharing of the burden” than a young chareidi scholar giving one of his kidneys to another Jew in mortal danger? With the Organ Transplant Act legislation preventing high-stakes organ trafficking, this heroic act of moral altruism has found fertile ground in the Torah world
It’s always a pleasure to see my neighbor Rabbi Avraham Yeshayah Heber. Especially between Minchah and Maariv. When he comes to daven in the minyan we hold in the lobby of our building we can tell by his stride and the expression on his face if he has good news.
During the break we ask him “Nu Reb Avraham Yeshayah? How many today?”
With his usual modest smile he answers “Today? A kollel yungerman and a little boy from a settlement in Samaria. They’re both still in the hospital.”
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Being well acquainted with this man we know he isn’t talking about accident victims. The subject at hand is transplants. The kollel yungerman has volunteered without remuneration to donate a kidney to a little boy whose kidneys have given out and who cannot survive much longer on dialysis.
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