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.
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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.
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