Writing
The Place of All Possibility
Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom
By Rabbi Adina Allen
Forthcoming from Ayin Press in Summer, 2024
The Place of All Possibility is a paradigm-shifting work that reframes the whole of Torah as a contemporary guidebook for creativity. Drawing from the deep well of Jewish sacred texts, and the radical interpretive strategies of ancient rabbis, The Place of All Possibility provides teachings and tools for those who seek to employ creativity as a force of transformation.
Putting spiritual wisdom in conversation with contemporary disciplines of art therapy, liberation theology, and creativity research, this essential book invites us all to rediscover our place in a world of mutual thriving. Packed with practical exercises to inspire your creative practice, The Place of All Possibility is for all people—from any tradition or none—who want to seed a world of imagination, abundance, and joy.
We are all created creative. Order the book today.
Other Writings
Social Justice Writing
“Struggling with our Shadow,” My Jewish Learning, Shabbat Recharge, 2023.
“Rededicating Darkness,” My Jewish Learning, Shabbat Recharge, 2022.
“God as Holy Fool: Embracing the Chaos of Creation” Ayin Two: The Holy Fool, May, 2022
“Opposites Distract,” My Jewish Learning, 2022
“Power, Oppression and the Hardened Heart,” Huffington Post, 2017.
Something New, Higher & Unexpected,” Huffington Post, 2017.
“Blessing the End of the World,” Kol Nidre, 2020
“Deep in the Wilderness,” Patheos, 2020.
“A Time for Radical Remixing,” Patheos, 2020
“All Breath in this World,” Rosh Hashanah, 2020
“She Is On Her Way,” Erev Rosh Hashanah, 2019
Education
“What Else Could This Be?” chapter in edited volume Creative Provocations: Speculations on the Future of Creativity, Technology & Learning, Spring Press, 2023.
“Creativity at the Core of Jewish Education,” Prizmah Kaleidoscope, December 2022.
“The Presence of What is Absent: Art as Inquiry into Jewish Text,” CCAR Journal: the Reform Jewish Quarterly, Winter 2013
“Art Making as Another Way to Interpret Our Texts,” Evolve, 2019
The Art of the Drash, Darshan, 2017
Ecology/environment
“The Weight of the World: Processing Despair, Unlocking Creativity”, The Sacred Earth: Jewish Perspectives on Our Planet, 2023
“Our Tender Yearning Heart,” My Jewish Learning, Jan, 2024.
“Coming Down to Earth,” My Jewish Learning, Feb, 2023
“But Dust and Ashes We Are,” Patheos, Aug, 2022
“What Must We Risk?”, My Jewish Learning, 2021
“Rewilding Our Imagination,” Kol Nidre Drash, 2021
“Wander into Wonder,” Yom Kippur Day Drash, 2021
Spirituality & Creativity
“A Passover Beyond Words”, My Jewish Learning, 2024
“In the Beginning: A Case for Creativity,” eJewish Philanthropy, 2016
“Creativity as a Spiritual Practice,” My Jewish Learning, 2019
“The Afterglow of Revelation,” My Jewish Learning, 2023
“Image as Portal to God,” Patheos, 2023
The Spiraling Cycle of (Re)Creation,” Patheos, 2023
“The Kernel of the Yet-To-Come,” My Jewish Learning, 2022
“Revelation, Co-creation, Illumination,” Patheos, 2022
“The Art of Teshuva,” My Jewish Learning, 2018
“Rosh Hashanah and the Creativity of Remembering,” My Jewish Learning, 2020
“Shavuot and the Sacred Practice of Becoming,” The Forward: Sh’ma Now, 2019 (no longer online)
Kaplan and Creativity Talmud Page, Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood.com, 2023
“Nurturing Art: The Sacred Work of Creativity,” The Huffington Post, 2016
“Is, Was, Will Be,” The Forward: Sh’ma Now, 2017
“The Shema: How Listening Leads to Oneness,” My Jewish Learning, 2018
“Purim: Glitz, Glam and God,” Patheos, 2018
“Why Every Home Needs Its Own Menorah,” My Jewish Learning, 2018
“Dreaming the World into Being,” My Jewish Learning Shabbat Recharge, 2021
“Making Space for Mystery,” Patheos, 2019
“On Being Artists of our Lives,” Erev Rosh Hashanah, 2017
Feminism
“With Blossom and Blood: Painting Our Way to Liberation,” Patheos, 2022
“What Childbirth Teaches Us About Counting the Omer,” J. - The Jewish News of Northern California, April, 2018
“Embodying Eve,” Lilith Magazine, 2021
“Smash the Patriarchy,” Rosh Hashanah, 2018