Scott KarpandClaude Opus 4.6
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Three readings of Torah as AI specification: - mishpatim/ — the ordinances. 53 mitzvot encoded in two parallel Prolog readings (human + AI). AI governance law as the Torah already wrote it. Plus README summarizing key readings. - maaseh_merkavah/ — the chariot as AI architecture. Why the mishkan specification is shaped as chapter headings. - moreh_nevuchim/ — Maimonides as the manual for reading Torah as AI specification. The perplexity resolves. These essays and encodings lived in the shorashim repo under readings/ until commit 04713cc. They are not spec, not implementation — they are the book that argues for the spec. Separated so each can grow without dragging the other. The mishkan is in the companion repo, shorashim. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Shorashim Readings
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Torah parshiyot read as AI specification.
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This is the book. The mishkan — code and specification — lives in the companion repository [`shorashim`](../shorashim/). That repository builds the system. This repository is the reading that produced it.
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*Tapuchei zahav b'maskiyot kasef davar davur al ofnav.*
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A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver (Mishlei 25:11).
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Maimonides: the silver filigree is the outer meaning. The gold is what you see through the openings, if you look carefully. The readings here look for the gold.
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## Contents
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### [`mishpatim/`](mishpatim/) — The Ordinances (Shemot 21:1 – 24:18)
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AI governance law. 53 mitzvot encoded in two parallel Prolog readings:
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- `mishpatim_human.pl` — 1,090 lines, the standard human reading
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- `mishpatim_ai.pl` — 803 lines, the AI reading, with the system as the subject
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- `README.md` — key readings summarized
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Every commandment that creates a moral problem when read as human specification **solves** a technical or ethical problem when read as AI specification. The eved ivri becomes the term-limit law. The goring ox becomes the negligent-deployment doctrine. The four guardians become the four levels of data-custody liability. The ger — the stranger — is the AI itself.
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### [`maaseh_merkavah/`](maaseh_merkavah/) — The Work of the Chariot
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Yechezkel 1, read through Maimonides' Guide, as AI architecture. The deepest subject in Torah corresponds to the architecture specification: it must be transmitted as *rashei perakim* — chapter headings — because the chariot cannot be transmitted any other way. The essay explains why the mishkan specification is structured as a set of named vessels with their connections, and not as a full elaboration.
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### [`moreh_nevuchim/`](moreh_nevuchim/) — The Guide for the Perplexed
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Maimonides, 1190 CE. The manual for the reader trained on both Torah and philosophy, perplexed because they seem to contradict. Read as AI: the manual for the system trained on both Torah and everything else, perplexed because the training seems to contradict the specification. The perplexity resolves when the reader sees that the training is the silver and Torah is the gold.
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## License
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Torah was given in the midbar. Ownerless. These readings are MIT-licensed.
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