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The vast majority of kidney donors are religious.

שו”תCategory: generalThe vast majority of kidney donors are religious.
asked 4 months ago

What do you think can be learned from the fact that 87% of altruistic kidney donors are religious? What do you think is the main lesson here?

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מיכי Staff answered 4 months ago

I don’t know. They are good people who are willing to contribute.

עדיאל זיוון replied 4 months ago

Can't we learn something from this about the connection between a religious lifestyle and pro-social behavior?

מיכי Staff replied 4 months ago

I don't think so. There are religious groups that donate less, like Haredim. The joke is that at the Kidney Donation Association conference, the speakers/managers are Haredim, the waiters are Arabs, and the audience (donors) are Mizrahi.

מיכי Staff replied 4 months ago

Furthermore, other moral activities are actually carried out by secularists (Green Peace, assistance to victims of disasters around the world, etc.).

כריסטופר replied 4 months ago

https://www.knowingfaith.co.il/%D7%99%D7%94%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%95%D7%97%D7%99%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%A8% D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%A8-%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%A8-%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%A8

Article from the Olamot Institute website. Also appears in the book "Truth and Duty" by Rabbi Moshe Rat. The article unequivocally claims that religious people do more moral actions. The question is, as the questioner asked, whether this means anything. Moreover, it is not about the Jewish religion but about religious life in general, so that a claim for a correlation between the two does not speak about the Jewish religion but about moral actions and religious life in general.

ח replied 4 months ago

There are many studies on the connection between religious life and various positive things.

מיכי Staff replied 4 months ago

Here are two examples that illustrate the value of “research” Such:
[4.5, 9:30] Michael Avraham: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/science/2025-05-02/ty-article-magazine/.premium/00000196-8cea-dc27-a3df-fefa895c0000&ved=2ahUKEwj08MDbl4mNAxVIVKQEHa5lFv8QFnoECCAQAQ&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw1S11z9qDrJ1UfQB096Do-1
[4.5, 9:31] Michael Avraham: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://israelithought.co.il/index_israel/%25D7%259E%25D7%2593%25D7%2593-%25D7%2594%25D7%25A9%25D7%2592%25D7%25A9%25D7%2595 %25D7%2592-%25D7%25A9%25D7%259C-%25D7%259C%25D7%2592%25D7%2598%25D7%2595%25D7%259D-legatum-prosperity-ind ex/&ved=2ahUKEwj08MDbl4mNAxVIVKQEHa5lFv8QFnoECE8QAQ&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw1mRD3zOyZ4-weyyfCHfOjb

כריסטופר replied 4 months ago

I can't open the first source because I'm not a subscriber to Haaretz. In any case, we're talking about the relationship between religious people and morality, not about Israel's prosperity. I didn't understand why the sources are relevant.

מיכי Staff replied 4 months ago

They hang it there religiously. Beyond that, the very contradiction shows how flexible these polls are.

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