Wednesday, September 4
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: San Francisco Jewish Community Center
Cost: $25 (includes a book)
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, 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.
Learn more about Rabbi Adina Allen by clicking here.
Presented in partnership with Ayin Press, Jewish Studio Project, Contemporary Jewish Museum and Afikomen Books.
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.
“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
Praise for The Place of All Possibility:
“Bravo for this renewal of the possibility and purpose of arts and artful living.”
Lisa Miller, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University and bestselling author of The Awakened Brain
“Rabbi Adina Allen invites us to become creators of worlds… [the book introduces] a wonderful method and a remarkable teacher.”
Rabbi Shai Held, author of Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
“...a unique and invigorating lens on Judaism.”
Publisher’s Weekly
“To open this book is to open oneself to hope.”
Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, President of Hebrew College
Join the journey at: ThePlaceofAllPossibilityBook.com