Vayikra 19:20 bikoret tihyeh — "there shall be an examination" — the one
noun Torah gives this function; its root ב-ק-ר is the priest's examining
of a mark by its signs (13:36) and the examining between good and bad
(27:33). The judges' form is v'darashta heitev … v'hineh emet nachon
hadavar / ed-sheker ha'ed (Devarim 13:15, 17:4, 19:18); the question
answered is eichah neda et hadavar asher lo dibro (18:21).
The system was named Shorashim ("roots") for the first thing built. Its
function became the examination of a model's output with the sources in
hand, and Torah re-cuts a name when the function is fixed, with its ki,
never for reach (Bereishit 2:19; 17:5; 32:29; 11:4). Nothing was changed
to fit the name; the root engine stays the pe'ah's reading cycle.
Spec files renamed bikoret_*.md; PRD §0 "The Name"; architecture §1.1;
README's Vayishlach row marked done; Tamid lists what still carries the
old word (Kubernetes resource names, the DB role, the domain, local
paths) and why, for the kohen's cut-over.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
L1's `shoresh` field was derived by stripping a prefix letter and a
suffix letter from the consonants and keeping the first three. וַיַּרְא
"and he saw" was engraved as ירא ("fear"); ויהי as יהי; שמים as שמ;
מזבח as מזב; הבאתי as בא. And parse_prefixes took a word's morphology
from the LAST morph segment, which for a suffixed word is the pronominal
suffix — so every suffixed noun and verb in Torah (לבבך, נפשך) was
classed as a suffix and written with no shoresh at all.
Every WLC word already carries its lemma, and the OSHB lexical index
files each lemma under its Brown-Driver-Briggs root (terumah §E2 named
BDB + Strong's as the root lexicon and marked it "needs consolidation").
scripts/build_l1.py now reads the root from that filing:
main the lemma is a root 23,750 words וירא → ראה
sub filed under a root 31,066 words מזבח → זבח
single stands alone in the lexicon 2,671 words משה → משה
none no etymology recorded → absent 3,002 words יוסף, מצרים
particles, pronouns → absent, as before 19,493 words את, אשר, כי
57,487 words carry a shoresh (was 51,836); 1,378 unique roots (was
2,608 fragments). Roots are written as the lexicon writes them — two
letters (בן), three, or more (שמאל).
WHAT CHANGED IN THE EDUT: only `shoresh`. Verified file by file — with
that one field removed, all 5,853 verse files are byte-identical to the
previous L1. Text, consonants, lemma, morph, te'amim, prefix, ketiv/
qere, large and small letters: untouched. The old builder, run against
the same morphhb checkout, reproduces the old hash exactly; the new
builder is deterministic (two runs, one hash).
L1 SHA-256 99bbd07a…4ea377 → 156b1d27…d8c9d5
sources morphhb 3d15126 · HebrewLexicon 21c9add
(recorded in l1/build_report.json)
Moved together, because they pin the hash or the count:
vav_pipeline L1Reader @l1_expected_hash · shoresh-engine Luchot.Firmware
(hash, uniqueRootCount) + Spec · azazel_processor goral._L1_INTEGRITY_HASH
· KOHEN.md / KOHEN_PROMPT.md gate · l1/README.md (new "Roots" section) ·
README.md (second quarry) · AGENTS.md · root_meanings.pl comment.
The Doorpost manifest is not touched; its hash does not move.
Note for the kohen: the goral's seed inherits the L1 hash, so lots cast
after this commit are cast from a different seed than the azazel
records already in L3. Those records are history and stand as written.
All five suites on the new L1: Elixir 461/0 (seeds 0 42 191243) ·
Haskell 55/0 · Prolog 6 suites exit 0 (swipl 9.2.2) · korban 222 passed
1 skipped · azazel 125 passed. Four images built; full local stack
(real engine binary, PostgreSQL 16 with SSL, migrations) answers
Bereishit 1:4 with ר-א-ה, health healthy, 6 interpretations in L3,
0 write failures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Name the morashah — the Jewish-engineer, Hebrew-reading, Torah-as-spec
configuration the work emerges from — without restricting where it goes.
Preserve the hak'hel — the table set lifneihem for anyone who comes,
including ger asher bish'arecha. Two Torah verses, both held.
Lo tigra: refusing to subtract from where this reading came from.
Lo tosif: refusing to add restriction to where it goes.
README.md is not in @spec_files; no Doorpost atomic commit needed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The three readings (maaseh_merkavah, moreh_nevuchim, mishpatim)
are interpretive essays + one parallel Prolog encoding. They are
"the book" the README describes, not the specification or the
implementation. The essays don't influence the shipped code;
mishpatim's Prolog is a parallel encoding to talmudic_engine/
mitzvot.pl, not its source.
Moved to ~/shorashim-readings/ — a companion repo. The code repo
stays spec + implementation + deployment. The book gets its own
home so it can grow without dragging 5,853 verse files with every
essay edit.
Also:
- README.md: rewrote the "Repository Structure" tree to match
reality (it still showed readings/terumah/, scripts/conversation_
search.py, memory/, and was missing l1/, AGENTS.md, BUILD_*,
KOHEN.md, opencode.json, .env.example).
- Added a "Kept outside this repo" section naming the three
companion directories: shorashim-readings, shorashim-source-data,
shorashim-operator-notes.
- Updated the "This repository contains" list: readings are no
longer item 1; the edut (l1/torah/) is now called out explicitly.
- Created .env.example with placeholders for ANTHROPIC_API_KEY,
GITEA_TOKEN, REGISTRY_CLI_SECRET, and SHORASHIM_SOURCE_DATA.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each spec corresponds to a parshah of Shemot. The earlier names
were generic English (materials, operations, construction,
economic_model). Torah names them precisely:
- Shemot 25:2 — terumah (תרומה, root רום, "what is lifted")
- Shemot 27:20 — tamid (תמיד, "continual" — the lamp that never goes out)
- Shemot 35:1 — vayakhel (קהל, "assembled" — community-formed building)
- Shemot 38:21 — pekudei (פקד, "accounted" — every material counted)
Renames:
shorashim_materials.md → shorashim_terumah.md
shorashim_operations.md → shorashim_tamid.md
shorashim_construction.md → shorashim_vayakhel.md
shorashim_economic_model.md → shorashim_pekudei.md
Updated cross-references in:
- README.md (parshah table + repo tree, also fixed stale tree
showing src/ and transcripts/ that no longer exist)
- AGENTS.md
- BUILD_KORBAN.md
- specs/shorashim_terumah.md (internal Document Registry)
Generic English is silver. Torah's words are gold (Mishlei 25:11).
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