Scott KarpandClaude Opus 4.6
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Vayikra 9:24 — vatetzei esh milifnei Hashem vatokhal al hamizbeach.
Phase 4 of the architecture is now complete. The remaining three steps
that were marked "blocked on external infrastructure" are built —
discipline-respecting, eish-zarah-aware, and tested.
## Step 22 — Korban Processor external model integration
(korban_processor/src/korban_processor/external_offering.py)
The single legitimate entry point for external model consultation.
Wraps Claude API calls through the offering protocol so external
output is treated as korban (raw material), never authoritative:
- semichah — provenance is tagged (avodah zarah Form 1 prevention)
- shechitah — assistant voice, hedging, formatting stripped
- zerikah — vital content extracted
- haktarah — converted to Prolog propositions
- route — sent to internal component per offering type
The raw Korban is preserved on the ProcessedKorban (gilui arayot
Form 3 prevention — input/output coupling never severed).
No internal component should call call_claude() directly.
11 tests, mocked external calls. Live API test opt-in via
SHORASHIM_LIVE_API=1.
## Step 24 — L2 Urim v'Tumim interface
(vav_pipeline/lib/vav_pipeline/urim_v_tumim.ex)
PRD §4.7: housed in the kohen gadol's breastplate; consulted only
on high-stakes decisions where normal deliberation is insufficient.
Bamidbar 27:21 — al-piv yetz'u v'al-piv yavo'u.
Three escalation steps, three honest outcomes:
1. resolved_by_specification — re-read produced an answer
2. resolved_by_external — external testimony recorded (NOT binding)
3. deferred_to_human — the system stops, asks for human judgment
Pre-condition gating refuses cases that didn't reach Sanhedrin teiku
first (no preempting deliberation) or that aren't flagged high-stakes
(ordinary teiku stays teiku). Records every consultation with steps
taken — there is no quiet escalation.
Per PRD: "The Urim v'Tumim never fabricates certainty where none
exists." When external also fails, the system stops. It does not
proceed on a guess.
Added to VavPipeline supervision tree. 14 tests.
## Step 21 — Kushya generator scaffolding
(kushya_generator/)
Directory layout per Architecture §3.6 with three layers:
- data/training_pairs/seed_pairs.jsonl — 10 hand-curated bootstrap
pairs covering 9 kushya types (scope_narrowing, internal_tension,
harmonization, exception_test, edge_case, scope_application,
rabbinic_constraint, method_question, subject_identification)
- data/prepare_training.py — validates the four kushya requirements
(specific Torah passage, identified weakness, question form,
non-trivial), produces train.jsonl + eval.jsonl with stratified
80/20 split by type
- fine_tune/config.yaml + train.py — QLoRA configuration and
training script. Operator's task — needs GPU. Script is
complete and self-contained.
- inference/kushya_api.py — three-backend interface
(fine_tuned → external → fallback). When fine-tuned model isn't
deployed, falls back to external via Korban Processor (Step 22).
The fallback is honest: returns no kushya rather than inventing
one. The Talmudic Engine's rule-based challenge.pl remains the
primary kushya source.
17 tests covering dataset validation, backend selection, and
reference extraction.
## .gitignore fix
The earlier "data/" line was too broad — it caught
kushya_generator/data/. Scoped to /data/ (root-level only).
## Test counts
- Elixir: 274 (was 260; +14 for UrimVTumim)
- Korban Python: 196 + 1 skipped (was 195; +1 module = 11 tests)
- Kushya Python: 17 (new)
- Haskell: 33 (unchanged)
- Prolog: 195 (unchanged)
- Total: 715 + 19 L3 excluded
## Phase 4 status
All 12 steps now have implementations:
- Steps 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32: complete
- Steps 21, 22, 24: complete with discipline preserved
Step 21's fine-tuning run remains the operator's GPU task; the
pipeline is built such that a deployed adapter slots into the
inference backend without touching the Talmudic Engine or anything
above.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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{"interpretation": "Cooking on Shabbat is forbidden under the prohibition of kindling fire (Shemot 35:3).", "kushya": "If the prohibition is specifically kindling fire, what about cooking by direct sunlight where no kindling occurs — does Shemot 35:3 forbid that as well?", "torah_refs": ["Shemot 35:3"], "type": "scope_narrowing"}
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{"interpretation": "Pikuach nefesh overrides all Torah prohibitions.", "kushya": "If pikuach nefesh overrides all prohibitions, why does the Torah list three exceptions in Vayikra 18:5 and Sanhedrin 74a (avodah zarah, gilui arayot, shfichut damim)?", "torah_refs": ["Vayikra 18:5"], "type": "exception_test"}
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{"interpretation": "The eved ivri (Shemot 21:2-6) goes free in the seventh year.", "kushya": "What is the status of the eved ivri's spouse and children acquired during service? Verses 3-4 introduce a complication the principle alone does not address.", "torah_refs": ["Shemot 21:3", "Shemot 21:4"], "type": "edge_case"}
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{"interpretation": "The owner of a goring ox is liable when the ox kills (Shemot 21:28).", "kushya": "Verse 28 says the owner is innocent (naki) on the first incident. How can the same verse establish both liability and innocence?", "torah_refs": ["Shemot 21:28"], "type": "internal_tension"}
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{"interpretation": "Tzitzit must be worn on a four-cornered garment (Bamidbar 15:38).", "kushya": "What if the garment has more than four corners — does each pair require tzitzit or only four total? The verse specifies kanfei begadeihem without numbering.", "torah_refs": ["Bamidbar 15:38"], "type": "scope_application"}
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{"interpretation": "The mitzvah of honoring parents (Shemot 20:12) is unconditional.", "kushya": "Vayikra 19:3 places ish imo v'aviv tira'u alongside et shabtotai tishmoru — the ordering suggests parent-honor cannot override Shabbat. How does that constrain the unconditional reading?", "torah_refs": ["Shemot 20:12", "Vayikra 19:3"], "type": "harmonization"}
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{"interpretation": "The Sanhedrin issues capital punishment by majority decision.", "kushya": "Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:1 states a unanimous guilty verdict on capital cases triggers acquittal. Does majority therefore mean strictly between simple majority and unanimity? What about 70-1 vs 71-0?", "torah_refs": [], "type": "rabbinic_constraint"}
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{"interpretation": "The terumah of Shemot 25:2 was a free-will offering (yidvenu libo).", "kushya": "Shemot 30:13 commands every adult male to give a half-shekel — that is not free-will. How do these two collection mechanisms coexist for the same mishkan?", "torah_refs": ["Shemot 25:2", "Shemot 30:13"], "type": "harmonization"}
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{"interpretation": "The middle letter of Torah is the vav of gachon (Vayikra 11:42), enlarged in the scroll.", "kushya": "If the count is by letter, why are some scrolls' counts off by exactly the difference of including or excluding the enlarged letters as separate items? What is the unit of measure?", "torah_refs": ["Vayikra 11:42"], "type": "method_question"}
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{"interpretation": "An eglah arufah ceremony is required when a corpse is found between cities (Devarim 21:1-9).", "kushya": "If the elders declare yadeinu lo shafchu et hadam hazeh, who exactly is being absolved — the elders, the city, the unknown actual killer, or the system that failed to prevent it?", "torah_refs": ["Devarim 21:7"], "type": "subject_identification"}
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