“Through a clever mix of artistic exercises and rabbinic wisdom, Allen encourages readers to ‘peel back layers of what we think we know’ to construct new understandings of their faith and themselves. It’s a unique and invigorating lens on Judaism.”

—Publisher’s Weekly

“Rabbi Allen's studious and reverent reformulation of the Torah…drips with agency. Every morsel of Rabbi Allen's disarmingly affecting invitation will spirit you away through ruptures and fissures to more wondrous delights than we can name. More than words can capture”
—Bàyó Akómoláfé, PhD, These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home

“In this time of so much heartache, when the world conspires to have us shut down, Rabbi Allen instead 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

In The Place of All Possibility, Rabbi Adina Allen…gifts us an updated, animistic view of Jewish mysticism and storytelling that generously ‘beckons us to return to our depths, the chaos within.’ Here is the creative spring that welcomes microbes and rootlets alongside dazzling angels and perplexing midrash.
—Sophie Strand, author of The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine and The Madonna Secret

"Deeply, gently, and courageously countercultural, this book is a stunning affirmation of life. In a time of narrowing imagination, Rabbi Adina Allen invites us to explore the untapped possibilities that live within us…To open this book is to open oneself to hope.”
—Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, President of Hebrew College

“Rabbi Adina Allen awakens our perception, revealing Imagination as an inspired process, from the Divine. Here, creativity is not constructed but received in a deep sacred dialogue. 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

“In The Place of All Possibility, Rabbi Adina Allen offers ways of reading and responding to Torah that align with the sacred book’s embodiment of the eternal creative process—forever made anew through imaginative responses…embedding its voice in our lives.”

—Shaun McNiff, author of Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting Go and Imagination in Action: Secrets for Unleashing Creative Expression

"The Place of All Possibility is a potent call to reclaim creativity as sacred practice. Rabbi Adina Allen offers us a wise and beautiful companion for the journey—an invitation to turn toward the untamed places in our hearts, a catalyst for rewilding our spiritual lives.”
—Rabbi Julia Watts Belser, author of Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole

“The Jewish Studio Process transforms puzzling verses or unsatisfying canonical interpretations into tangible and creative expressions, unique understandings, and deeper perceptions. It is a place well-worth exploring.” — San Diego Jewish World

“Summer’s the perfect time to jumpstart your creativity and I love the frame that this book provides and its belief that we can all pursue art as a way to make sense of the world.” — Kveller, The Jewish Books We’re Reading This Summer

“The Place of All Possibility underscores the transformative power of creativity as a means of self-discovery, healing, and connection to a deeper spiritual dimension. This book encourages readers to embrace creativity as a means of self-discovery, personal growth, and contributing to the collective construction of a more meaningful and connected world.”
 —Susan Magsamen, best-selling co-author of Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

“The Place of All Possibility expands the field of the arts from a discipline for the few to a spiritual practice for all. Rabbi Adina Allen makes explicit what has always been true in Jewish culture: that imagination is part of the process of understanding Torah, and that creativity itself is sacred.

—Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, author of Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams

“Rabbi Adina Allen’s Jewish Studio Process is the spiritual practice that will revolutionize Judaism. This practice puts the Torah of Creativity—for the first time in Jewish history—into the hands of every one of us, Jewish or not.”
—Rabbi Benay Lappe, President and Rosh Yeshiva of SVARA

“In this warm, wise, and winsomely written book, Rabbi Adina Allen invites us to become creators of worlds—to engage the texts of Torah with everything we are, and to express our deepest selves by unleashing our inner creativity. If you’ve ever (or always) dreamed of marrying the beit midrash (study hall) with the artists' studio, this beautiful book is for you. It will introduce you to a wonderful method and a remarkable teacher.”
—Rabbi Shai Held, author of Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life

“In this lovely and insightful book, Rabbi Adina Allen uncovers the creativity that animates Jewish tradition, and gives us the tools to unleash our own creativity and reanimate our lives. Her warmth, passion, and wisdom illuminate every page.”
—Sarah Hurwitz, author of Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life—in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)

“A teacher once told me, ‘God is in the details,’ and that is what I feel The Place of All Possibility aims to teach us. This is a powerful, midrashic, and visionary book.
—Siona Benjamin, artist and illustrator of The Zodiac Floor and I Am Hava

“How blessed we are to find a sacred path that fuses creativity, wisdom, and connection across the ages. And how blessed among the blessed that we now have a master teacher, Rabbi Adina Allen, to translate that wisdom into words to nurture our souls, to open our creative possibilities, and to fuse the personal and the communal with the spiritual and the artistic.”
—Rabbi Dr. Bradley Shavit Artson, Roslyn and Abner Goldstine Dean’s Chair and Professor of Philosophy at American Jewish University