RABBI ADINA ALLEN – THE PLACE OF ALL POSSIBILITY

Creativity offers us a portal to transformation, spiritual connection, and revelation. It is there for us when we feel stuck, divided, or disconnected. In her stimulating and insightful debut, The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom, Rabbi Adina Allen delivers a paradigm-shifting and powerfully accessible reading 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 – from any tradition or none — to rediscover our place in a world of mutual thriving. 

Rabbi Batshir Torchio, the JCCSF’s Senior Educator, joins Rabbi Allen for this eye-and-heart-opening conversation as they invite us to rethink and transform ourselves, our lives, and the world around us. 

Rabbi Adina Allen is a spiritual leader, writer, and educator who grew up in an art studio where she learned firsthand the power of creativity for connecting to self and to the Sacred. She is cofounder and creative director of Jewish Studio Project (JSP), an organization that is seeding a future in which every person is connected to their creativity as a force for healing, liberation and social transformation. Based on the work of her mother, renowned art therapist Pat B. Allen, Adina developed the Jewish Studio Process, a methodology for unlocking creativity, which she has brought to thousands of organizational and community leaders, educators, artists, and clergy across the country. A national media contributor, popular speaker, and workshop leader, Adina has published in scholarly as well as mainstream publications, and more of her writing can be found on her website at www.adina-allen.com. She and her family live in Berkeley, California.   

Presented in partnership with Ayin Press, Jewish Studio Project, Contemporary Jewish Museum and Afikomen Judaica and Bookshop. 

Looking for a hands-on experience? Join Rabbi Adina Allen and Pat B. Allen at the Contemporary Jewish Museum on Sunday 9/8. Details here: https://thecjm.org/programs/1400

“This book is a window into the sacred methodology of the Jewish Studio Process, which invites us into a multidirectional process of discovery—of Torah and of self. In this time of so much heartache, when the world conspires to have us shut down, Rabbi Allen inspires us to ‘make art about it’—to unlock the creative possibilities that call out from our ancient texts and traditions, and that reside in each of us. The Place of All Possibility is beautiful and heart-opening.” —Rabbi Sharon Brous, author of The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

Questions? Email support@jccsf.org