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If one received a package in the mail that contained food during shabbat. May one open the package to consume the food on shabbat?

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Through a database, I’ve been matched to a stranger who needs a kidney. I would like to donate one of my kidneys and save a life. My wife is very upset that I am giving up so much for someone I have never met and will probably never meet and won’t have a kidney to donate if a family member needs one. I have tried to get everyone I can think of to talk to her, but she hasn’t changed her mind. She says she will divorce me if I do this. What is the right thing to do?

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I’m 71 year old man. My great-grandmother’s (my mother’s mother’s mother) Jewish family immigrated from Poland in the late 1800s. I first visited a synagogue when I was 14 years old and was told because it was on my mother's side that I was Jewish. I know nothing of the Jewish faith other than from my Christian upbringing, but I feel a desire to know more. Where can I start please? Am I a Jew by birth?

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Through a database, I’ve been matched to a stranger who needs a kidney. I would like to donate one of my kidneys and save a life. But my wife is pitching a fit. She is upset that I am giving up so much for someone I have never met and will probably never meet and won’t have a kidney to donate if a family member needs one. I have tried to get everyone I can think of to talk to her, but she hasn’t changed her mind. She says she will divorce me if I do this. What is the right thing to do?