richards | July 6, 2018
About 5% to 10% of breast cancers are thought to be hereditary, caused by mutated genes passed from parent to child. Genes are short segments of DNA(deoxyribonucleic acid)found in chromosomes.
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richards | July 5, 2018
The Hasidic movement started in the 1700's (CE) in Eastern Europe in response to a void felt by many average observant Jews of the day. The founder of Hasidism, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (referred to as the "Besht," an acronym of his name) was a great scholar and mystic, devoted to both the revealed, outer aspect, and hidden, inner aspect of Torah.
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