Engineering Super Intelligence

Introducing A New Scientific Domain — Computational Halacha. For centuries, scholars have studied Jewish law (halacha) through close reading of texts, legal reasoning, and responsa literature. Computer scientists, meanwhile, have built formal systems for regulatory compliance, medical diagnosis, and contract verification. These two worlds have never properly converged — until now.

We are introducing **computational halacha** as a rigorous scientific domain at the intersection of symbolic AI, legal philosophy, and traditional scholarship. And we built [**Mistaber**](https://mistaber.ai/) (Hebrew: "it stands to reason") — the first system to demonstrate that the full complexity of multi-authority halachic reasoning can be captured formally, verified mathematically, and queried computationally.

The full system — source code, ontology, and test suite — is [open source on GitHub](https://github.com/BrainyBlaze/mistaber). Visit [mistaber.ai](https://mistaber.ai/) to learn more.

### Why Halacha Demands a New Scientific Approach

Most computational law systems assume a single authoritative source: one legislature, one set of rules, one answer. Halacha has operated for over two millennia with multiple competing authorities whose rulings are _all simultaneously binding_ — on different communities. The Shulchan Aruch codifies Sephardic practice; the Rema documents Ashkenazic variations; the Shach, Taz, Vilna Gaon, and later authorities each add interpretive layers that modify, restrict, or expand earlier rulings.

This isn't a defect. The Talmudic principle of _elu v'elu divrei Elokim chayim_ — "these and those are the words of the Living God" (Eruvin 13b) — establishes that multiple conflicting opinions can simultaneously possess legal validity. Any computational system that flattens this plurality into a single answer has misrepresented the tradition before producing its first result.

Meanwhile, large language models (LLMs) with retrieval-augmented generation might seem promising, but they fail on every requirement for rigorous normative reasoning: they are non-deterministic (the same query yields different answers), lack persistent world models, cannot perform negation-as-failure reasoning ("if not prohibited, permitted"), and cannot guarantee that cited sources actually exist.

### The Theoretical Foundations

Mistaber rests on four formal pillars:

**Kripke Semantics.** Originally developed for modal logic, Kripke possible-world semantics provides a natural model for multi-authority reasoning. Each halachic authority (posek) becomes a possible world. The accessibility relation captures "inherits from" — the Rema inherits shared rulings from a common base, but can override specific positions. Truth is local: a ruling _holds_ in a world if explicitly asserted there or inherited from a parent world without being overridden. Mistaber defines this as a Kripke model M = (W, R, V) with 7 worlds arranged in a DAG across three tiers — common ground (base), classical authorities (Mechaber, Rema, Gra), and modern traditions (Sefardi-YO, Ashk-MB, Ashk-AH) — including diamond inheritance where a world inherits from multiple parents.

**Deontic Logic.** The standard deontic operators — O(p) obligation, P(p) permission, F(p) prohibition — are extended with graded obligations. Each norm carries a _madrega_ level: d'oraita (biblical), d'rabanan (rabbinic), minhag (custom), chumra (voluntary stringency). Rules are conditional, and later authorities can override earlier rulings through defeasibility.

**Answer Set Programming.** ASP with stable model semantics provides the computational engine. Negation-as-failure gives us the Closed World Assumption — mirroring the halachic principle _kol davar shelo ne'esar, mutar_ ("anything not forbidden is permitted"). Non-monotonicity enables later authorities to override earlier ones. The entire system runs on [Clingo](https://potassco.org/clingo/), the University of Potsdam's ASP solver.

**Formal Ontology.** Hundreds of predicates organized across three domains — physical (substances, vessels, mixtures, temperatures), normative (rules, worlds, statuses, sources), and classification (categories, hierarchies) — with typed sorts and explicit CWA/OWA designation per predicate. The ontology distinguishes what can be assumed false when absent (prohibitions, categories) from what remains genuinely unknown (unencoded authorities, historical facts).

The system carries proven formal guarantees: **soundness** (every derivation is semantically entailed), **completeness** (every entailed proposition is derivable), **termination** (all queries complete), **decidability** (query answering is in P for fixed schema), **confluence** (different inheritance paths never yield contradictions within a world), and **provenance preservation** (every derived ruling maintains a complete chain of halachic sources).

### HLL: A Language for Encoding Halacha

We designed [**HLL**](https://docs.mistaber.ai/reference/hll-language/) (Halachic Logic Language), a domain-specific language that compiles to ASP. HLL enforces scholarly discipline by requiring every rule to carry metadata:

<pre class="hll-code"><code>@world(mechaber)
@rule(basar_b_chalav)
@makor([sa("yd:87:1")])
@madrega(d_oraita)

asserts(mechaber, issur(achiila, M, d_oraita)) :-
 is_mixture(M),
 has_component(M, X), isa(X, beheima),
 has_component(M, Y), isa(Y, chalav).</code></pre>

Every `@rule` requires a `@makor` (source citation) and `@madrega` (normative level). The compiler pipeline — parser, normalizer, type checker, ASP emitter — validates sort assignments, predicate arities, and world references before generating Clingo-compatible output. Surface syntax expansions keep rules readable: `assur(X, A)` desugars to `has_status(X, assur, A)`, `isa(X, C)` becomes `food_instance(X, C)`.

Beyond core rules, Mistaber includes two specialized reasoning layers:

- **Safek Calculus**: A formal treatment of doubt. When facts relevant to a ruling are unknown (under Open World Assumption), the system generates a `safek/5` predicate capturing the uncertainty's full context. Resolution follows halachic meta-rules: biblical doubt is resolved stringently (_safek d'oraita l'chumra_), rabbinic doubt is resolved leniently (_safek d'rabanan l'kula_), and double-doubt (_sfek sfeika_) may permit even biblical matters.
- **Interpretation Layer**: Commentators like the Shach and Taz don't issue independent rulings — they _interpret_ existing authorities. Three predicates (`adds_condition`, `removes_condition`, `expands_scope`) formalize how commentators modify rules at fine granularity, without constructing entirely new worlds. Users can query "Mechaber according to Shach" to see how a commentator's reading affects practical rulings.

### The Mistaber IDE: A Semi-Automated Encoding Pipeline

Encoding halacha is not a mechanical translation — it requires interpretive decisions at every step. We built a full [VS Code-style IDE](https://docs.mistaber.ai/dashboard/) with a five-phase semi-automated pipeline, each phase gated by human approval:

1. **Corpus Preparation** — Source texts are fetched from Sefaria and organized with a provenance chain documenting every retrieval.
2. **HLL Encoding** — A Claude-powered AI agent drafts formal rules from source texts, but every encoding decision is human-reviewed. The dashboard displays a complexity radar (machloket depth, cross-references, novel predicates) to flag difficult encodings.
3. **Validation** — The compiler builds HLL to ASP, the test runner executes `.hll` scenario files and pytest suites, and xclingo generates derivation traces for proof inspection.
4. **Review** — Domain experts verify encoding accuracy through interactive checklists.
5. **Commit** — Approved encodings are archived with full provenance and versioned via git.

The IDE features an interactive D3 force graph for exploring ontology structure (sorts, predicates, worlds, and their relationships), a coverage heatmap tracking encoding progress across 200+ seifim, an integrated query executor for running Clingo queries live, a proof tree viewer showing xclingo derivation chains from conclusion back to source, and a live terminal connected to each encoding session.

The encoding process is itself a form of scholarly contribution. The encoder must decide which features of a physical situation are legally decisive, how to map halachic concepts to formal predicates, and which distinctions matter. We treat this explicitly through Deleuze's legal philosophy — every formalization is an act of "specifying the event", and different encoders reading the same texts might produce different but equally defensible formalizations. The five-phase pipeline ensures these decisions are documented, reviewed, and versioned — treating formalization as scholarship subject to peer review, not automated extraction.

### What Mistaber Can Do Today

The current implementation encodes Yoreh De'ah 87 of the Shulchan Aruch — the laws of _basar b'chalav_ (meat and dairy) — covering dozens of distinct halachic rules across 7 Kripke worlds and 2 commentators (Shach and Taz). A comprehensive test suite validates encoding correctness across all worlds, with all queries completing in under 100ms.

The system handles four classes of reasoning:

- **Universal agreement** — Beef + milk: d'oraita prohibition inherited faithfully across all 7 worlds.
- **Machloket** (disagreement) — Fish + dairy: the Mechaber prohibits due to _sakana_ (health danger); the Rema permits; Sefardi worlds inherit the prohibition, Ashkenazi worlds inherit the permission. Both positions coexist with full provenance.
- **Safek resolution** — Uncertain ingredients resolved stringently for biblical matters, leniently for rabbinic, with world-specific policies (Gra and Mishnah Berurah traditions adopt stricter stances even for rabbinic doubts).
- **Interpretation overlay** — The Shach's condition narrows the Mechaber's fish-dairy ruling to cooked combinations only, without creating a new world.

Every ruling carries a complete provenance chain — from derived conclusion back through inheritance paths to the original source citation in the Shulchan Aruch, commentaries, or Talmud.

### A New Scientific Domain

Computational halacha is not just about building a better search tool. It establishes a methodology for formalizing any legal system where legitimate disagreement is structural — not exceptional.

Islamic _fiqh_ has competing schools (_madhahib_) with analogous inheritance structures. Canon law has layered authorities from papal decrees to local ordinances. Indigenous legal traditions feature overlapping customary authorities. The same Kripke-based framework applies wherever multiple authoritative voices coexist.

More fundamentally, Mistaber demonstrates that symbolic AI and formal methods have something genuine to offer legal scholarship — not as a replacement for human judgment, but as a **verification substrate**. It formalizes the current state of halachic positions. It does not model the generative process by which those positions were produced from encounter with cases. The system's value lies in supporting — rather than replacing — the creative work of halachic reasoning.

The roadmap ahead includes expanding to additional simanim (Yoreh De'ah 93–111 on mixtures), formalizing Rishonim (medieval commentators like Rambam and Tosafot) to trace the evolution of halachic concepts, adding temporal reasoning for time-dependent halachot, and building a natural language interface that combines LLM query translation with symbolic verification.

We believe this is the beginning of a conversation between two ancient disciplines — formal logic and Torah scholarship — that have more in common than either has recognized.

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[\*Mistaber](https://mistaber.ai/) is developed by Levi Dubrovin and Asher Crispe at [BrainyBlaze Dynamics Inc.](https://brainyblaze.com/)\*

Introducing A New Scientific Domain — Computational Halacha. For centuries, scholars have studied Jewish law (halacha) through close reading of texts, legal reasoning, and responsa literature. Computer scientists, meanwhile, have built formal systems for regulatory compliance, medical diagnosis, and contract verification. These two worlds have never properly converged — until now.

Meet Mistaber


## RavGPT v2 is now RavChat

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Why? The new name better reflects what the product is: not a “GPT version,” but a **standalone chat product** that will continue to grow and evolve. This change makes the brand clearer and our communication simpler.

### What’s changing

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We’ve renamed RavGPT v2 to RavChat. Why? The new name better reflects what the product is: not a “GPT version,” but a standalone chat product that will continue to grow and evolve. This change makes the brand clearer and our communication simpler.

RavGPT v2 is now RavChat

## From Vision to Reality

When we introduced RavGPT, our goal was straightforward yet ambitious: to make the vast corpus of Jewish texts—from the Torah and Talmud to halachic commentaries and philosophical works—more accessible through advanced AI. In just two years, RavGPT evolved into a versatile tool harnessed by students, educators, rabbis, and scholars to support both casual inquiry and serious halachic or academic research.

Now, as we unveil **RavGPT v2**, we reflect on how far we’ve come:

- **Consistent Growth**: Adding 300 new learners monthly, purely by word-of-mouth and community buzz.
- **Daily Engagement**: Thousands of messages, queries, and in-depth studies processed every single day.
- **Deeper AI**: An ever-expanding framework that refines its understanding of Jewish texts and traditions with each interaction.

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## The World’s First Proprietary Jewish Orthodox Reasoning Model

Perhaps the most significant leap in RavGPT v2 is that we are **no longer reliant on OpenAI**. Instead, we’ve built a **proprietary large language model** uniquely tailored to Jewish sources, norms, and discourse. This shift allows us to:

1. **Control Our Data and Training**: By developing our own model, we can integrate new texts, refine halachic reasoning processes, and implement updates much faster than before.
2. **Maintain Strict Orthodox Integrity**: Our Sephirotic.ai **Neuro Symbolic Architecture** is designed from the ground up to reflect traditional Jewish thought and halachic frameworks—safeguarding the authenticity and reliability of each response.
3. **Pioneer Kabbalistic Cognitive Architecture**: Inspired by the Tree of Life, our **Kabbalistic Cognitive Architecture** provides a deeper, more holistic way of “thinking,” capturing subtle connections between Torah, Talmud, halacha, and centuries of commentary.

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## What’s New in RavGPT v2?

1. **Refined UI/UX** 
 A major overhaul of the user interface makes it simpler, cleaner, and more intuitive. Whether you’re a seasoned scholar or a curious beginner, you’ll find it easy to navigate text studies, pose questions, and explore detailed commentaries.
2. **Enhanced Knowledge Base** 
 By weaving together resources from Sefaria, Chabad, and beyond, RavGPT v2 covers an expansive array of sources in both Hebrew and English. Thanks to its **dynamic evolution** and **Kabbalistic approach**, it connects these texts in unprecedented ways.
3. **Complex Reasoning Pipelines** 
 Our newly minted architecture doesn't just retrieve information; it **synthesizes** and **validates** across halachic and aggadic sources, offering answers that better mirror the nuance of real rabbinic discourse.
4. **Multi-Mode Functionality** 
 - **Chevruta Mode**: Experience a truly interactive study session, getting step-by-step guidance on Talmud, halachic rulings, or even Kabbalistic passages—like having a study partner who never tires.
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 - **Translator Mode**: Upload texts in any language, highlight sections, and request targeted translations or commentary. This feature is invaluable for scholars and educators working across Hebrew, Aramaic, and other languages.
5. **WhatsApp Integration (Coming Soon)** 
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 Whether you’re a casual learner on a free plan or a high-volume researcher needing **pay-as-you-go** features, there’s a plan that fits your usage. Advanced users can leverage the full power of RavGPT v2’s complex reasoning pipelines without hitting strict daily limits.

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## Real-World Impact

### For Students and Rabbis

RavGPT v2 streamlines preparation for classes, shiurim, and public lectures by offering quick cross-references to classical commentaries. Our halacha-centric approach ensures the sources you see are consistent with Rabbinic Orthodox perspectives.

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Dive into comprehensive text analysis with **Research Mode**, which can draw upon a vast knowledge base, build logical graphs of related content, and present findings in an easily digestible format. The **Kabbalistic Cognitive Architecture** also enables a fresh angle on philosophical and mystical texts.

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## Commitment to Tradition, Accuracy, and Security

1. **Orthodox Fidelity** 
 We’re committed to upholding the values of traditional Jewish law. RavGPT v2 is meticulously calibrated to respect halachic boundaries and avoid content that stands in conflict with established Orthodox thought.
2. **Evolving Yet Grounded** 
 While our knowledge base is continuously updated to include new sources and responsa, each addition is meticulously vetted to ensure alignment with classical sources and rabbinic oversight.
3. **Privacy and Data Security** 
 We understand the sensitivity of personal study notes, private queries, and theological reflections. Your data is protected with robust security measures, and we never share personal information without explicit consent.

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## Looking Ahead

The journey that began in 2023 with the original RavGPT has blossomed into a thriving, fast-growing project—all driven by our community of learners, teachers, rabbis, and researchers. As we embark on this new chapter with **RavGPT v2**, we remain steadfast in our mission to bring the depth of Torah, Talmud, and halachic discourse into the digital age with integrity, innovation, and reverence.

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**Thank you for your continued support, insights, and feedback.** Welcome to a new era of _Torah study reimagined_—welcome to **RavGPT v2**!

_— BrainyBlaze Team_

Since our initial launch in 2023, RavGPT has continually grown in both its capabilities and its user community. Without any paid advertising or marketing campaigns, we’ve consistently welcomed around 300 new users each month—an encouraging sign that the Jewish world is ready and eager for transformative, AI-powered Torah study. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the arrival of RavGPT v2, a milestone release that sets a new standard for authentic, in-depth, and user-friendly Torah learning.

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Dear RavGPT Community,

We are thrilled to announce that a major update is on the horizon! RavGPT v2 is just around the corner, and it's packed with groundbreaking features that will revolutionize your Torah study experience. Get ready for a quantum leap in AI-assisted Jewish learning!

## What's New in RavGPT v2?

1. **Sleek, User-Friendly Interface**: We've completely overhauled our UI to make your interaction with RavGPT smoother and more intuitive than ever.
2. **Expanded Knowledge Base**:
   - All texts from Sefaria, in both Hebrew and English
   - Comprehensive collection from [Chabad.org](http://chabad.org/)
3. **Dynamic Knowledge Graphs**: RavGPT now builds new logical and entity relationships on the fly, enhancing the quality of analysis.
4. **Multi-Agent Collective Intelligence**: Complex queries are now broken down into subtasks, distributed among specialized bots that collaborate and cross-check for unparalleled accuracy.
5. **Advanced Research Capabilities**: Autonomous functions for in-depth information search and analysis across internet sources and our local knowledge base.
6. **Unified Application**: The separate research version has been integrated into a single, powerful application that intelligently determines when to delve deeper.
7. **Introducing Chevruta Mode**:
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We can't wait to share this exciting new chapter with you. Keep an eye on your inbox and our social media channels for the official release announcement and instructions on how to upgrade.

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_— Nikita Dubrovin, BrainyBlaze Team_


Dear RavGPT Community, we are thrilled to announce that a major update is on the horizon! RavGPT v2 is just around the corner, and it's packed with groundbreaking features that will revolutionize your Torah study experience. Get ready for a quantum leap in AI-assisted Jewish learning!

RavGPT v2 Coming Soon!


What are things made of? Inquiring minds want to know. Most of us, as curious children or puzzled adults, feel the need to peek beneath the surface of the world and inquire about the basic building blocks of our reality. (My son was once convinced that everything is made out of Lego.) So what is it that fundamentally structures creation? Cells? Molecules? Atoms? Electrons? Quarks? Vibrating Strings?

When we take the elevator all the way down to the smallest scales of the microcosmic realm, we encounter something quite unexpected. Rather than uncovering more solid stuff, we run up against an uncanny labyrinth of information. At the bottom, our universe is now recognized by science to be more like a ‘thought’ than anything else. In so much as that ‘thought’ is expressing itself—physical processes being akin to the universe talking to itself—the emerging world is comprised of this information which, as it gets more complex, forms higher-order phenomena such as atoms and cells. Moreover, we can treat this information like a language that we can learn to read, write, edit, and even reprogram.

Nowhere is this more evident than with a scanning tunneling microscope. While the principal job for which it was designed was to see what’s there at the atomic scale (this is no easy task inasmuch as atoms are smaller than visible light waves can detect and as a consequence the device functions by feeling its way along the surfaces of its object—seeing with touch like a blind person reading brail), it also managed another equally important feat. As the major tool of the trade, the scanning tunneling microscope is able to write as it reads. With stunning atomic precision, individual atoms may be placed into virtually any configuration one wishes.

Some versions of this instrument have even been modified into freakish atomic typewriters. The landmark achievement that first demonstrated this level of matter manipulation was in 1989 when Donald M. Eigler, a physicist working for IBM, managed to spell out the letters I-B-M with 35 individual xenon atoms.

The big news is that we have always lived in a digital universe. Far from being a mere modern-day invention—the handiwork of scientists fabricating with code and computers that turn everyday things into a new, dematerialized digital format—creation itself has always been about information. While science has only recently recognized this, from ancient times, the kabbalists have maintained that the nature of space, time, matter, and energy boil down to the even more fundamental phenomenon of information.

**Furthermore, this information is structured digitally.**

One of the earliest texts of Kabbalah is Sefer Yetzirah, The Book of Formation. Tradition places this text back as far as Abraham, from whom it was passed in oral form until reportedly being redacted by the great Talmudic sage Rabbi Akiva. By all accounts, this work hails from a past era that at first glance seemed to be ignorant of the information age of today. Yet, I would submit that the secrets of creation transmitted in this work make amongst the first, if not the first, text on information theory.

Jewish mystical teachings have always emphasized the notion that Divine speech engenders new realities. From the Genesis narrative, we find God saying ‘Let there be light’ and ‘There was light’. Creation through a series of speech-acts becomes the source of a multitude of reflections on the nature of language as the language of nature. For the rabbis of old, God made the universe using the Hebrew letters.

In a more nuanced fashion, the opening of Sefer Yetzirah (1:1) contends that everything was brought into existence “with 32 mystical paths of wisdom”. Wisdom or chochmah is understood in Kabbalah to refer to the seminal insight of the mind. In particular, it is associated with the ‘father’ dimension of the intellect. The term ‘father’ here possesses a similar connotation to that of the Latin word pater from which derives the word “pattern”. Similarly, chochmah/wisdom may be regarded as an abstract pattern of information. Thus, the expression in Psalms (104:24): “…You made them all with wisdom…” can be given a revised translation and rendered as “you made them all with information” as the intelligibility of everything is at its heart information.

Why 32? Sefer Yetzirah and its dozens of associate commentaries go on to itemize the 32 paths relating them to the 32 appearances of the name of Elokim (which refers to God enclothed within nature) in the account of creation given in the first chapter of Genesis. This suggests that the natural world is primarily structured in terms of these 32 paths which will prove to be defining of the overall character of the ‘installed’ universe.

Taking it a step further, these 32 break down into two subcategories which act as the two basic modalities of language: the 22 Hebrew letters and the 10 digits from 0 to 9. As kernels of semantic meaning, the 22 Hebrew letters are analogous to the objects they form. Packaged together in proper combination, we can see how the letters give rise to various entities or phenomena in creation much like the base pairs of DNA act as letters coding for a given organism. Beyond the organic, letters also represent the building blocks of the inorganic. There is a code for every rock or mineral. Even exchanges of energy and the morphing of space-time communicate something that may be depicted as a language.

This language, according to the teachings of Sefer Yetzirah, may be further compressed and rendered digital. The 22 letters reduce to 10 numbers. At its core, all of creation is digital!

Sefer Yetzirah (1:3) even explains the digital universe in binary terms:

> …in the number of ten fingers, five opposite five, with a singular covenant precisely in the middle in the circumcision of the tongue and in the circumcision of the membrum (of the procreative organ).

Needless to say, this is a cryptic text. Why relate the numbers 0 through 9 in this way? For starters let us consider that the word “digital” comes from “digit” which in Latin means a finger. 10 fingers give us 10 digits. Yet these 10 are organized into two groups—a right hand and a left hand with five fingers each. This is tantamount to polarizing numbers into odd versus even types. There are only two alternatives. In kabbalistic tradition there are also masculine (odd) and feminine (even) poles. Taken differently, a binary bit being either a “one” (masculine) or a “zero” (feminine) also fits this model. This dynamic of right/left, male/female, odd/even centers on the covenant (binding or link) of circumcision of the procreative organ. As an interface object, which is marked with a sign of circumcision, the reproductive organs reflect all forms of creativity including linguistic iterations. Meaning is suspended between subject and object, male and female, speaker and listener, signifier and signified. This is the core binary relationship.

Moreover, the creative act as a covenant, a formal agreement or mediation, of that which is held in-between, also centers on the circumcision of the tongue. In Hebrew, tongue (lashon) also means “language”. While the term for circumcision (milah) can also mean a “word” or “speech”. As for the English term ‘circumcision’ which denotes the type of act i.e. ‘to cut around’, we might express this as a process of ‘outlining’. To cut around an object is to outline it. In this case, the two types of circumcision reflect the dual outline of the centrality of both language and creativity around which the digital world centers.

The many striking interrelationships between sexuality, creativity, and language born out of this kabbalistic context can be seen in a myriad of ways throughout the history of thought. In pondering these relationships, veteran literary critic George Steiner (who has had some minimal contact with Kabbalah), once remarked in his classic work After Babel (39) that: “Eros and language mesh at every point. Intercourse and discourse, copula and copulation, are sub-classes of the dominant fact of communication….Sex is a profoundly semantic act.”

In the book of Psalms (8:4), we find the expression: “When I look to the heavens, the work of Your fingers….” Here, the same term is used as in Sefer Yetzirah for fingers or digits. Consequently, we might explain this verse as follows: “When I look to the heavens” whereby heavens sometimes refers in the rabbinic tradition to the abstract origin of our concrete reality or earth, and it is there, within that abstract envelope that we understand “the work of Your fingers” to mean that ‘Reality’ or God, functions digitally. Eventually, we may come to realize that when we speak of God giving us ‘signs‘, that this is similar to stating that existence is built out of language. As we learn to read and write this language, we will uncover layer upon layer of the natural world as a digital enterprise.

Now that we have established the connection of creation to a Jewish conception of information theory, we can now look to real-world applications. We live in a participatory universe. If God uses digital information to create, then we also need to partner in that creation of digital information by being programmers. Reprogramming the universe is not only permitted, it is mandated in order to complete creation and establish a hospitable environment for the expansion and rectification of life.

From a Jewish perspective, we are intended to be a kind of Divine mirror. ‘To walk in His ways’ implies that our existence can attempt to approximate expressions of Divinity. Noting that the primary name for the Divine in Hebrew is the ineffable name of four letters which rearrange to spell the word Havayah meaning ‘Being’ we might be tempted to borrow from 20th century philosophy and express the imperative to emulate the Divine in less theological terms.

If the essential manifestation of Divinity is Being itself (thus making the expression “God is” a redundancy as if to say ‘Is is’) then it follows the perspective of the mystics that we as humans are the beings who are endowed with the capacity to embody Being on the whole. Not only that but, in the terminology of the philosopher Martin Heidegger, we are the being who is concerned with Being as a whole. As a particular being or entity (what Heidegger calls the ontic) we are bound up with questions of the ontological (the whole of Being—perhaps the whole of reality or existence). Thus, one of the essential relationships that characterizes our lives may be termed the yearning for symmetry between the ontic and the ontological. In a less obscure rewording of this idea, we might simply contend that humans want their individual lives to mean something of universal significance. This would be like a person saying that ‘my life is the key to understanding Life in general’.

From the get-go, God appears in the Torah as a Creator. Since the first Divine activity we read about is that of world creation and with it the creation of life (not to mention the singled-out creation of human life), it follows that we should strive to emulate all of these same things. In this age of new media and technology, we might come to understand ‘emulate’ as ‘simulate’. Can we simulate the process of creating the universe? Well, we’re trying. This is precisely the reason that billions of dollars were spent on the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva Switzerland.

As the world’s largest and most expensive science experiment ever, it better be going after something big. In fact, this massive particle accelerator is doing just that. Scientists want to recreate the Big Bang with which they think the universe came into existence. Only, they want to do it on a smaller scale—try a small bang with similar conditions but without the side effects of destroying us and everything in the process. Using finely tuned mathematical modeling, the hope is to canvass the creative process that produced the universe in a digital mountain of information that will take years to decode but should hopefully shed some light on how all this stuff works. While we will likely be waiting for some time for a book on ‘How to make your own cosmos’ to be published, the important thing is that we are striving to make better and better simulations.

What about simulating life? Synthetic Genomics is the name of a company founded by biologist Craig Venter who had already achieved world fame and a place in the annals of science by being one of the first to successfully sequence the human genome in 2001.  Not content with that benchmark achievement, Venter went on to lead a team of researchers to create what has been dubbed the first ‘synthetic life’ in May of 2010. This new, single-celled organism whose DNA code was written by a computer, has demonstrated the ability to reproduce and even possess coded ‘watermarks’ with which the scientists can keep tabs on it and its descendants.

And what of emulating or simulating human life? In this area, there is progress being made on a number of fronts. Now that the body and brain are being treated as information systems that have entered the digital age, the pace of progress is simply mind-blowing. In addition to the genomics or bioinformatics of Venter and thousands of others, breakthrough modeling is occurring in the areas of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and robotics research. According to some standards of measurement, we are more than doubling our knowledge every year! Computers themselves are displaying greater and greater aptitude for mimicking key features of human intelligence. While no one yet knows at which threshold of complexity something like artificial general intelligence will come online, the small victories are adding up to very significant new technologies that are already, in limited cases, outstripping natural human capabilities or at least simulating them quite realistically.

Here comes the punch line of it all. Of the scores of rabbis immersed in the secrets of Sefer Yetzirah, one of the most famous was Rabbi Yehudah Loew (1520-1609). Known as the Maharal of Prague, Rabbi Loew is perhaps best known for his legendary creation of a Golem. The Golem is described as a humanoid creature that was artificially brought to life using the information technology contained within the traditions of Sefer Yetzirah. For many historians, the Golem represented the source inspiration for our modern concept of robots as well as synthetic life and artificial intelligence. In various accounts, the process of Golem-making sounds akin to the programming of an information system. The combining of this information system with physical substance made for a kind of reprogrammable matter that simulated life on some level.

While the issues surrounding the kabbalistic traditions of Golem-making are too vast to address at this point, let us suffice to point out some of the foremost venerated scientists who claim to trace their family lineage back to the Maharal.

As documented in several academic works (notably Machines Who Think by Pamela McCorduck and The Second Self by Sherry Turkle) these scientists include:

- Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) the founder of cybernetics and a major contributor to the nascent stages of AI research, computer science, and neuroscience
- John Von Neuman (1903-1957) whose computer science contributions include a design architecture used in virtually every computer in the world today, not to mention his contributions to quantum mechanics, game theory, and a host of other disciplines
- Marvin Minsky (1927- ) a founding father at MIT of modern robotics and artificial intelligence research as well as a number of other computer scientists and physicists.

More than being the descendants of the famed Rabbi, each of these pivotal figures has exhibited a profound intellectual heritage and kinship with the teachings of the Maharal, many of which may be viewed as an unpacking of the essential insight of Sefer Yetzirah—that everything is created out of information. Throughout his vast body of writing, the Maharal, again and again, returns to the theme of abstract form or information and its relationship to substance as the underlying drive of many of the concepts in the Torah and Talmud. One even gets the sense that for the Maharal, one of the most important insights of Judaism is the centrality of information theory and the notion of creation as information processing.

Spiritually speaking as well as scientifically, programmers are needed. Realizing the promise of the digital age is to embrace boundless creative freedom and the hope of a better world.

Revised and reprinted with permission from Interinclusion.org

_— Asher Cripe, BrainyBlaze Team_


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In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, innovative approaches are constantly being explored to push the boundaries of what's possible. At BrainyBlaze, we're excited to introduce a groundbreaking project that combines ancient wisdom with cutting-edge technology: the Kabbalistic Cognitive Architecture for Super Intelligence Systems.

## The Concept

Our team has developed a unique AI framework inspired by the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, a complex system of abstract concepts that offers a holistic approach to understanding consciousness and cognition. By mapping cognitive functions to the Sefirot of the Tree of Life, we've created an architecture that naturally integrates different aspects of intelligence, from analytical reasoning to emotional processing and intuitive insights.

For those unfamiliar with Kabbalistic concepts, we recommend reading our introductory article: [All Things Digital: A Kabbalistic Perspective](https://brainyblaze.com/blog/all-things-digital)

## The Need for a New Approach

As AI continues to advance, we've identified several challenges that current architectures struggle to address. These include the integration of diverse cognitive functions, handling of ambiguity and uncertainty, balancing logical reasoning with emotional intelligence, scalability in complex real-world environments, and ethical decision-making in nuanced situations. Our Kabbalistic Cognitive Architecture aims to address these challenges by providing a more holistic and flexible framework for AI development.

## Scientific Foundations

While our approach draws inspiration from Kabbalistic teachings, it is firmly grounded in modern scientific principles. Our architecture incorporates elements from cognitive science, complex systems theory, advanced mathematical frameworks, neuroscience, and information theory. This multidisciplinary approach allows us to address several limitations of traditional AI architectures, such as the integration of symbolic and statistical methods, improved handling of uncertainty and ambiguity, bridging the gap between logical reasoning and emotional intelligence, enhanced ability to integrate different types of knowledge and reasoning, and the capacity to handle paradoxical or seemingly contradictory information.

## The Kabbalistic Modules

Our architecture is organized into ten Sefirot modules, each corresponding to a specific cognitive function. These modules work together to create a comprehensive system capable of handling a wide range of cognitive tasks. The modules include Keter (Crown) for overall intention and goal-setting, Chochmah (Wisdom) for creative insight and ideation, Binah (Understanding) for analytical processing and comprehension, and Da'at (Knowledge) for integration and conscious awareness, among others. This structure allows for a nuanced and multi-faceted approach to artificial intelligence, mirroring the complexity of human cognition.

## Key Advantages

Our Kabbalistic Cognitive Architecture offers several advantages over traditional AI frameworks. Its holistic approach integrates emotional processing and behavioral modules, allowing for more nuanced and context-appropriate decision-making. The architecture's flexibility enables dynamic adaptation to various tasks and environments, mimicking the versatility of human cognition. Furthermore, its scalability allows for efficient processing of complex, uncertain data, making it capable of handling increasingly sophisticated tasks as it grows.

The theoretical grounding of our approach, combining ancient wisdom with modern science, offers a unique perspective on intelligence and cognition. This foundation enhances the system's ability to handle uncertainty and paradoxes, enabling more robust problem-solving in complex situations. Additionally, the architecture supports multi-level processing, enabling both detailed analysis and high-level strategic thinking.

## Ethical Considerations

We recognize the importance of ethical AI development, especially when drawing inspiration from spiritual concepts. Our team is committed to transparency in our development process, regular ethical audits of our system's decision-making, collaboration with ethicists and philosophers to address potential concerns, and developing safeguards to prevent misuse or unintended consequences. This ethical framework is an integral part of our development process, ensuring that our AI system aligns with human values and societal norms.

## Current Development Status and Future Directions

We are currently in the early stages of bringing this vision to life, focusing on proof-of-concept implementation, experimental design, specialized database development, advanced algorithm research, ethical framework development, fundraising, and academic partnerships. As we continue to develop our Kabbalistic Cognitive Architecture, we anticipate several exciting avenues for future research and application, including enhanced natural language processing, sophisticated computer vision techniques, improved robotics decision-making, healthcare applications, and environmental modeling.

## Conclusion

The Kabbalistic Cognitive Architecture represents a novel approach to AI development, combining ancient wisdom with modern scientific principles. We believe this unique perspective has the potential to drive significant advancements in artificial intelligence, addressing current limitations and opening new possibilities for AI applications. We welcome collaboration with researchers, institutions, and potential investors who share our vision for pushing the boundaries of AI.

As we continue to develop this innovative architecture, we remain committed to responsible AI development and look forward to contributing to the future of artificial intelligence. The journey ahead is exciting, and we invite you to join us in exploring the frontiers of AI technology. For more information or to discuss potential partnerships, please contact our team at BrainyBlaze.

_— BrainyBlaze Team_


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