Rabbi Adina Allen

Instead of looking up to the heavens for holiness, what if instead we looked to the earth beneath our feet?

Darkness is often seen as inherently negative, but Jewish texts offer a more complex understanding.

The renewal of the yearly cycle of Torah readings invites us to reconsider our foundational stories anew.

The inversion of expectations, so central to the Purim story, can be both thrilling and confining.

Jewish tradition suggests that dreams awaken the imaginative faculty without which prophecy is impossible.

As the floodwaters rise around us, the story of Noah’s Ark calls on us to ask: What does righteousness look like in our generation?

The Jewish New Year calls upon us to both reach back into the past and step forward into the future.

Judaism teaches that each of us is endowed with creative capacity simply by being human.

The tradition of lighting Hanukkah candles in every household teaches that all of us have the power to lighten our little corner of the world.

The Jewish practice of repentance involves not merely turning away from sin, but turning toward the dark parts of ourselves.