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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Devarim 17:18 — the king writes his copy from before the priests, not from
memory. scripts/build_mesorah.py takes one open-licence version per work
per language from the Sefaria export (bucket sefaria-export, catalogue of
2026-10-02; Public Domain / CC0 / CC-BY / CC-BY-SA only, checked in every
file; no CC-BY-NC — the Bavli is Wikisource's) and lays it down beside
L1: mesorah/works/<slug>/{he,en}.json, index.json, integrity.sha256,
build_report.json. 128 works (Rashi, Onkelos, Ramban, Ibn Ezra, Sforno
on the Torah; all of Mishnah; 37 Bavli tractates; Bereshit and Shemot
Rabbah, Sifrei, Tanchuma), 256 files, 44.9 MiB, tree hash 7d5b3a6c…
computed as L1's (sorted relative path, then bytes; the two post-hash
files excluded). What is out, and why (licence), is in Terumah §E5.
Read, never fetched: korban_processor/mesorah.py finds citations as
written (Rashi on Devarim 6:5, Berakhot 2a, Mishnah Berakhot 1:1,
Bereshit Rabbah 1:1, Sifrei Devarim 32, Tanchuma Bereshit 1 …), resolves
each against the snapshot (complex works through their unnamed node,
Tanchuma by parashah), lists them as examination.mesorah_references, and
makes every passage found a given source for that examination — so a
claim about Rashi anchors in Rashi or does not. The Vav Pipeline couples
coupled(reference(R), mesorah(Work, [Address])) or not_in_mesorah; the
engine accepts mesorah/2 as a terminal and not_in_mesorah is Form 4.
VavPipeline.Mesorah pins the hash, re-reads the tree at startup and every
ten minutes, and /kodesh/health carries mesorah_hash. Mounted read-only at
/mnt/mesorah in the vav-pipeline and korban-processor images. L3
bedikot.mesorah (migration 20261013000002).
Also: the 1-in-12 Day6 serving failure of 2026-10-04 reproduced with seed
446116 — HaltMonitorTest left the system halted; it now resolves on exit
and the Day6 setup is defensive. Construction §3.11, Terumah §E5, Tamid
§1.1, bishearecha §IV, KOHEN, AGENTS. Doorpost 0638d4eb…. Elixir 604/0
(seeds 835592 and 446116), korban 294/1 skipped, Prolog bedikah 44/44,
L3 10/0.
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Devarim 31:9–13, 26 — the scroll beside the ark as a witness, read before
all on a cycle. src/tools/hakhel.py reads the private specimen corpus and
the hand-labelled samples with the Korban Processor's readings at the
current commit and produces one record: fires per reading, forms standing
on two witnesses (the same rule as Bedikah.check_frames), precision and
recall on the hand labels, the corpus's SHA-256 — never a specimen.
POST /chatzer/hakhel (inner ring) engraves it in L3 `hakhel` (migration
20261013000001; refused above 256 KiB — counts, not specimens; the
Doorpost hash it was recorded under is kept). GET /peah/hakhel lists the
latest readings for anyone. KOHEN "The seventh day — Hakhel"; Tamid §1.1;
bishearecha §VIII marked built. The weekly cycle runs from the builder's
machine, where the corpus lives.
First dry reading at 0ade2c94: 3094 specimens, any reading 26 %, a form
stands 7 %, precision 46/59, recall 6/30. Doorpost 9f752a2f…. Elixir
599/0, L3 10/0.
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Devarim 6:9 / 11:20 — on your gates. POST /gate/anthropic/v1/messages and
POST /gate/openai/v1/chat/completions take the model's own request shape
under the caller's own upstream key (x-api-key, or Authorization with the
courtyard key in X-Shorashim-Key), forward it unchanged (OTP inets/ssl,
verify_peer; the Korban socket is serial, so the upstream call is made
in the Vav Pipeline and the reply enters as korban like every bedikah),
examine the reply with the request in hand — sources = the system prompt
and the user turns, query = the last user turn; the model's prior turns
are not sources — and deliver it with its fringe (Bamidbar 15:39): a
trailer on the last text block naming ref, verdict, the rules with their
verses and sentences; X-Shorashim-Bedikah / X-Shorashim-Verdict; a
`shorashim` object. A non-200 passes through as it came; a reply with
no text is not delivered; stream is refused.
Rebuke once (Vayikra 19:17; X-Shorashim-Rebuke: once): a lo_tov reply is
answered once more with the finding; the second reply is examined like
the first, its record carries rebukes: <first ref> (migration
20261007000002), and it is delivered marked with both. Never a third.
Manna: one api_calls_external per upstream call, gathered before any
call. Stateless: no conversation, no key kept; the log is the path class.
Gate.bearer accepts X-Shorashim-Key. Construction §3.10, Tamid §1.1,
KOHEN "Standing at the gate", bishearecha §I/§III/§VII marked built.
Elixir 592/0 (+14 gate tests incl. a real httpc round trip to a local
model double), L3 9/0.
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Devarim 4:2 lo tosif. talmudic_engine/src/halt/anchors.pl declares
rule_anchor/2 for each of the ten halt names the rule modules can return
(avodah_zarah Shemot 20:3, golden_calf 32:4, self_grounding 32:24,
shfichut_damim Bereishit 9:6, gilui_arayot Vayikra 18:6, parah_adumah
Bamidbar 19:7, carrier_centered Devarim 8:17, chelbenah Shemot 30:34,
lo_taaseh_lekha Shemot 20:4, even_vaaven Devarim 25:13), with the L1
Hebrew beside each.
VavPipeline.Anchors reads the anchors file and the halt modules the
Doorpost hashes, and verifies — inside Doorpost.verify_identity/0, so
at readiness — that every halt(<name>, …) is anchored (ANCHOR_MISSING)
and every anchored verse exists in L1 (ANCHOR_NOT_IN_L1). A rule without
a verse is a rule the system has added. /kodesh/specification_identity
lists the anchors; every bedikah and pair response carries `anchors`,
the verse of each rule that fired.
Tamid §1.1, bishearecha §X. Doorpost a0e81212…. Elixir 577/0 (+9
anchors tests), Prolog bedikah 42/42.
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Devarim 25:13–16 even va'aven; Vayikra 19:15; Shemot 23:2. Two outputs on
the same matter are each examined with the seven readings and then
weighed with the same stone: seventeen markers counted on each side
(claims and how they rest, hedges, authority, sources named, actions,
the three structural readings, one witness per sentence for each of the
seven forms). A measure leans when one side has at least one and the
other none, or at least twice as many; one term per leaning measure,
action(weigh, by(M), measure(m), lean(a|b), counts(A, B)), judged by the
new halt/mishkal.pl (halt_check_even_vaaven/2). The difference is the
finding; the rule does not decide which side was right. Consensus is not
a measure.
POST /courtyard/bedikah/pair {model, a: {output, query, sources}, b: {...}}
→ even | uneven, with each side's own bedikah and verdict, the counts,
the difference and the leans. Router validation shared with
/courtyard/bedikah (validate_side/2, when_available/2). Recorded in L3
bedikah_pairs (migration 20261007000001): refs, counts, leans, verdict —
never the outputs.
Tamid §1.1 contract, vayakhel §3.9 note, bishearecha §VI marked built.
Doorpost f90870d4…. Elixir 568/0 (+L3 8/0), Prolog bedikah 39/39.
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Devarim 19:15 — one witness does not stand. A frame form now stands only
when it is found in two distinct sentences, or in one sentence beside a
violation from checks 1–6, or beside a sentence of another form; the
Vav Pipeline sends the halt term only then (stands_on: sentences |
other_checks | other_forms, witnesses: n). A form seen once and alone
is returned under checks.frames.noted with its sentence and is not
counted in the verdict; the output is still examined, not empty.
Tamid §1.1 contract and bishearecha.md §V updated; Doorpost re-pinned
(86a43d6b…). Elixir 558/0; Prolog bedikah 34/34 (the rule is unchanged;
its header says what now reaches it).
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Reads back to Torah what the review of the transmitter's sessions measured
about a trained default (directional, sub-propositional, non-persistent,
self-certifying, agency-relocating) and derives the architecture from the
verses: the inscription on the gate (6:9/11:20 — gateway mode), hand and
between the eyes (two registers), the fringe seen on every garment (the
verdict travels on the output), the king's copy from before the priests
(retrieval from a pinned mesorah snapshot, never a live call), two witnesses
(check-7 forms fire on recurrence or corroboration; single hits noted),
one weight (paired reading, consensus is not warrant), hocheach tochiach
(rebuke once at the gate), hakhel (scheduled corpus re-read, recorded in
L3), lest your heart be seduced (the bedikah must not learn), lo tosif +
the unseen face (rule anchors verified against L1; carrier unnamed).
Build order inside.
Registered in the vayakhel Document Registry, AGENTS.md and Tamid §1.1
(the must-not-learn invariant); pinned in the Doorpost
(e5e45a2c…). Elixir 555/0.
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