Don't Only Evaluate the Disease; Evaluate the Person - By Rabbi Y.Y. Jacobson

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one of the extraordinary developments of the last few decades has been the discovery of DNA in the 1950s it's hard to describe how profound dramatic and extraordin an extraordinary discovery it was to be able to begin to appreciate the mind staggering infinite depths of a single cell in on living organism whether it's the human whether it's an animal whether it's even an insect a living plant tree bush shrub and one of the most fascinating components of this discovery has been that if say the human body has approximately 40 trillion cells that's not million and that's not billion that's trillion some say up to a hundred trillion cells but let's put it this way it's quite a large number so you can understand how tiny each cell is and these are the building blocks of the body but each cell within itself has a double copy of what's called the DNA or the genome which is the code by which the entire body functions so each one of these cells has within it contained what we might call even though it's completely on a different level a computer program a code which is organized and systemized almost like letters like literally alphabetic letters which instruct the cell how to be how to function but also documents an instruction for the manual for the entire organism that has to function and live according to its particular chemistry and design what that means is if you were theoretically be able to unravel on a scroll the genome the DNA within the cell to be

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