Rav Shlomo Einhorn: The Talmud, AI, and the Future of Jewish Learning

Rav Shlomo Einhorn is a talmid chacham, a master educator, and one of the most dynamic Rabbis I have encountered. For years he served as dean of Yavneh Academy in Los Angeles before stepping into a world most rabbis haven't touched — artificial intelligence. He is the founder and CEO of Mallacore, an AI consulting firm, and has been thinking and writing seriously about what this technology means for Torah, for learning, and for what it means to be human.What I love about Rav Einhorn is that none of this feels like a contradiction. For him, the move from yeshivah to AI was not a departure — it was a natural development. Because he sees in the architecture of the Talmud something that the builders of AI have been trying to approximate without knowing it.In this conversation we explore his claim that the Talmud is humanity's most sophisticated training manual for artificial intelligence, what AI can and cannot do when it comes to learning Torah, what a yeshiva might look like in 2036, and what will be gained and lost when the next generation learns with tools we can barely imagine today. We also talk about what all of this means for what makes us irreducibly human.This was a genuinely fun conversation. I hope you enjoy it.