News Highlights Book Review: Why Rain Comes from Above: Explorations in Religious Imagination

In her July 22, 2024 book review in JewSchool, entitled Ask What the Text Wonders: A review of _Why Rain Comes from Above: Explorations in Religious Imagination, Arielle Tonkin reviews Hebrew College Rabbinical School faculty member Devora Steinmetz recent book, Why Rain Comes from Above: Explorations in Religious Imagination.

Tonkin writes: “A central commitment of this book is the practice of imagination within Torah learning towards a more just world and more widely empathetic worldview… Like a Proustian cookie that insinuates beyond the reader’s intellect and invites them, through sensation, to pitch forward out of their chair and into the world of the story, Dr. Steinmetz teaches through generously sharing her learning process as an experienced student.”