“This Passover, amidst all the words that will be shared, may our seders be places for us to make space for our cries — those vulnerable feelings that swirl within us, however inarticulate. May these cries draw us closer to one another, closer to the Divine and closer to the true purpose of the holiday.”
“A Passover Beyond Words” by Rabbi Adina Allen, MyJewishLearning.com 2024
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“The Place of All Possibility”
by Rabbi Adina Allen
Forthcoming from Ayin Press, 2024
“We bring our struggles, our questions, our longing or our pain to the page and invite forces beyond ourselves into our process. Without fail, the universe will give us back a gift: understanding, insight, comfort, connection.”
“Image as Portal to God”
by Rabbi Adina Allen
Patheos, 2023
“As a spiritual practice for today, image-making connects us to something bigger and beyond the self.”
”The Spiraling Cycle of (Re)Creation”
by Rabbi Adina Allen
Patheos, 2023
“Just as for God there is chaos and void and the creative impulse to begin the journey once again, so too for us.”
”The Art of Teshuva”
by Rabbi Adina Allen
My Jewish Learning, 2018
“The Jewish practice of repentance involves not merely turning away from sin, but turning toward the dark parts of ourselves.”
”Struggling with our Shadow”
by Rabbi Adina Allen
My Jewish Learning, 2023
“At this moment of intensifying violence, the Torah offers an insight into how we might open a path towards peace.”
“The Afterglow of Revelation”
by Rabbi Adina Allen
My Jewish Learning, 2023
"Revelation is not a disembodied, momentary insight, but rather the bounty of this particular year’s harvest of insight. Both kinds of kernels — of grain and Torah understanding — need to be nurtured and processed to be useful."
“Our Tender Yearning Heart”
by Rabbi Adina Allen
MyJewishLearning, 2024
“We haven’t yet awoken to the part of us that, through calamity and catastrophe, remains open and ever full of love, able to guide us through the challenges and changes to come.”
LISTEN
WATCH
Creativity Is…
Reflections from the JSP community, December 2022
Rabbi Adina Allen’s Keynote Speech at URJ 150th Anniversary
December 15, 2023
In the Cosmic Field
by Rabbi Adina Allen
Erev Rosh Hashanah 2023 / 5784 Drash
JSP High Holidays, JCC East Bay
Have You Made Art About It Yet? Chanukah Edition 12.7.23
Monthly Program Framing by Rabbi Adina Allen
A Cosmological Revolution/Revelation: Unraveling & Unafraid
by Rabbi Adina Allen
Rosh Hashanah 2023 / 5784 Drash
JSP High Holidays, JCC East Bay
Have You Made Art About It Yet? Gratitude (& Grief) Edition 11.26.23
Monthly Program Framing by Rabbi Adina Allen
Have You Made Art About It Yet? Sukkot Edition 10.5.23
Monthly Program Framing by Rabbi Adina Allen
Embodying Eve
by Rabbi Adina Allen
Rosh Hashanah 2021 / 5782 Drash
JSP High Holidays, JCC East Bay
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