יום שלישי, ט״ו תמוז תשפ״וTuesday, June 30, 2026
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Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg is the spiritual leader of Congregation Etz Chaim of Kew Gardens Hills, N.Y., and a Judaic Studies educator at SAR Academy in Riverdale, N.Y. He is most well known for his "Unofficial Hogwarts Haggadah and Superhero Haggadah," but his writings on religion, ethics, and Jewish law have also appeared in Tablet Magazine, The Forward, The Jewish Week, and The Journal of Halakha and Contemporary Society, among other national publications. He lives in Queens with his wife, Dina, and their seven children. Additional writings can be found in Ketoret, a semi-regular newsletter which looks at the world through the combined lenses of Torah, literary fiction, technology, game design, and anything else that can help. Subscribe to Ketoret at RabbiRosenberg.substack.com.
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He takes the reader on a dazzling historical tour of all those before and after Maharal who objected to the second class status of the study of Tanach and the monopoly that Gemara held over the hours of instruction.
As I matured, the counterexamples to the authority of gematria grew more numerous, more amusing, and naughtier.
What I didn’t say was that I think that there is Divine guidance for those who browse among holy books, but I think he knew.
June 26, 2026 
