You're dyslexic and couldn't read Hebrew — how does that connect to tech?

Imagine growing up in a world where the most important texts — the ones your community, your family, your rabbi, your entire spiritual framework are built on — are locked behind a writing system your brain can't decode fluently. That was Mordechai's reality.

Dyslexia doesn't mean you can't think deeply. It means the standard interface doesn't work for you. And when the standard interface to Torah is reading Hebrew — you either find another way in, or you don't get in at all.

Mordechai found another way in. He used AI to translate, explain, and break down texts. He watched 823 videos from Vayimaen (a Torah channel), 781 from Living Lchaim, 583 from TheShmuz. He consumed Torah through audio, through conversation, through first-principles discussion with AI systems.

This isn't a hack. It's a completely different learning pipeline — one that bypasses the bottleneck of reading and goes straight to comprehension. And here's the thing: it works better for him than rote reading ever could have.

That quote isn't about Torah specifically. It's about everything. But the Torah learning experience is where the pattern first became visible: the standard interface doesn't work → build a better one → the better one reveals things the standard one missed.

When you can't learn by rote, you have to learn by understanding. There's no memorizing without comprehension when your brain literally won't let you memorize. So every piece of Torah Mordechai learns, he learns from first principles. That's slower — but it's deeper.

Mordechai puts בס״ד (B'ezras Hashem — with God's help) on everything he builds. It's not decoration. It's an acknowledgment that the tools, the AI, the ability to finally access Torah in a way his brain can process — that's not something he takes for granted.

The dyslexia that locked him out of Hebrew became the forcing function that made him build translation tools. Those tools became the foundation of his entire approach to human-AI interface design. Torah × Tech isn't a marketing angle. It's the autobiography.