Underneath the Underneath

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters Shabbat Shuva — the Shabbat suspended between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur — and finds inside the opening verses of Ha'azinu a teaching that reframes the entire season. Drawing on the Meor Einayim of Reb Menachem Nachum of Chernobyl, this episode traces the movement of the life-force through a person — how it rushes in, returns to its source, and leaves behind a reshima: an impression, a recognition, a trace. And it is precisely this recognition — already written on your face, already carried in your body — that draws the life-force back, with more. Yom Kippur is not about manufacturing the right feeling or producing the perfect confession. It's about reading what's already there. The year already wrote it. The impression is already on your face. What did this year leave in you? That's the question to carry into Kol Nidrei. Ohmek Session dated September 15, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters Parshat Ki Tavo and orients to a single word that carries layers of spiritual technology. Hasket. Usually translated as “hearken” or “take heed” — a doubling of the command to listen. But the Midrash reads it differently. Has: become silent. Katu: shatter. Two medicines hidden in one word. The path to becoming a people, to truly hearing the words of Torah, to entering the land — it begins here. Drawing on the Midrash, the story of Rabbi Akiva, and the medicine of Elul, Yocheved traces two kinds of silence — the has that arises from within, and the shtok that comes from beyond — and what each one prepares us for. The shofar as amniotic fluid. The shattering as birth. The month of Elul as the space where silence and shattering learn to live together. Has. Then katu. Silence first. Then something breaks. And from the breaking — an am. A people. A self that can finally hear. Ohmek Session dated August 25, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved arrives at Parshat Ki Tetzei with a chidush that stops everything: the Hebrew root of sadeh — field — is the same as Shadai. Eil Shadai. The God of the breast. The king in the field, the classic Elul teaching, turns out to be more than a metaphor for accessibility. The field is the place of the nurturing God — the divine who feeds, who sustains, who knows exactly when you are full and says die*, enough. Not abandonment. Deep attunement.* Drawing on the thirteen attributes of mercy, four mitzvot from Ki Tetzei, and the arc from Elul into Rosh Hashana, Yocheved traces what it means to be held by Eil Shadai before standing before Havayah. The womb before the throne. The mother before the king. The milk is already flowing. The field is already receiving. The practice is not feeling it — it’s turning toward what already is. Ohmek Session dated August 18, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters Parshat Shoftim at the threshold of Elul — and finds inside it a map for the inner work of this season. The Torah opens with a deceptively simple command: place judges and officers in all your gates. But Moshe isn’t only talking about city gates. He’s talking about the gates of the inner world — the places where fear enters, where the crowd’s opinion enters, where the past tries to determine the present. Who stands there? How do we discern what to let in and what to release? Drawing on the archetypes of the judge, the tamim, and the prophet — and weaving in a visceral encounter with the Gobi desert — Yocheved traces three movements of Elul preparation. The judge discerns. The whole self surrenders to mystery. And from that surrender, the inner prophet arises — the voice from within, the still knowing, the one we were always meant to listen to. This is a teaching for anyone standing at a threshold — and ready to ask who has been standing at their gate. Ohmek Session dated August 11, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the Nine Days and Tisha B’Av through the element of fire — and asks what fire actually does to us when we’re willing to stay with it. Drawing on Elijah’s breakdown in the wilderness, the burning bush that wouldn’t be consumed, Michael Meade’s three layers of human life, and a stunning teaching from the Rambam’s Tisha B’Av prayer — this episode traces four movements of fire. What is burning. Staying with what burns. What burns away. And what becomes audible in the aftermath. With fire You consumed it. With fire You will rebuild. This is a teaching for anyone moving through the heat of this season — and anyone willing to ask what the fire might be revealing. Ohmek Session dated July 21, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the book of Devarim — the long goodbye — and finds inside one word the full arc of a people, a leader, and a life. Moshe stands at the edge of the Jordan, knowing he will not cross. What does a beloved leader say when there is nothing left to protect? He speaks himself — his own words, his own memory, his own love — for the first time. The stutterer becomes a man of words. And the word he chooses is Eicha. How. Drawing on the Sfat Emet, the Midrash of Eicha Rabbah, and a stunning Breslov teaching, Yocheved traces three prophets who each said eicha at a different moment in the arc of Israel’s story — and a different moment in the arc of every human life. Moshe’s eicha of fullness. Isaiah’s eicha of disillusionment. Jeremiah’s eicha of desolation. And underneath all three — the same letters, the same question: ayeka. Where are you? The question the Divine asked Adam. The question that doesn’t accuse but evokes. The question that draws the Shechina out of hiding. What is the eicha you’re longing to hear? And what might it unlock? Ohmek Session dated July 14, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the Three Weeks — the 21 days of bein hametzarim — through a surprising teaching from Rebbe Nachman that changes how you see this season entirely. An egg gestates in 21 days. The luz bone — the indestructible bone at the base of the neck — shares this same time signature. And the Baal Shem Tov teaches that the 42 journeys of the desert correspond to the full arc of a human soul, from birth to eternal life. 42 is double 21. Which means grief, as real and sacred as it is, is only half the story. Drawing on Parshat Matot-Masei and weaving in personal threads from her own process, Yocheved explores the vows we make — spoken and unspoken — during the in-between spaces of our lives. The stories we tell about our own formation. The ones that sustain us. And the ones that quietly constrain what’s trying to be born. Something is forming in the dark right now. The question is: what story are you telling about it? Ohmek Session dated July 7, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the threshold of Parshat Pinchas alongside the beginning of the Three Weeks — and asks what it means to grieve as testimony. Through four women — the daughters of Zelophchad, Rachel weeping on the side of the road, Miriam and the well that dried up after her unmourned death, and a more personal thread about being an eldest daughter — Yocheved traces four distinct registers of grief. Spoken and answered. Spoken and unresolved. Withheld by the collective. Withheld by the self. What happens when grief doesn’t find its voice? Where does it go? And what becomes possible when we stop treating our patterns and symptoms as problems to solve — and start hearing them as testimony not yet heard? This is a teaching for the threshold. For the three weeks. For anyone carrying a grief that hasn’t yet taken the stand. Ohmek Session dated June 30, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved explores the mysterious open space between the Torah portions of Korach and Chukat—a silence that stretches across thirty-eight years in the wilderness, during which Divine speech seemingly ceases. Drawing on teachings from the Maggid of Mezritch, Rebbe Nachman, and the Alter Rebbe, she enters the relationship between speech and silence, exile and redemption, black fire and white fire. What happens when the voice of God grows quiet? What is being formed in the spaces between certainty, between insights, between chapters of our lives? Through the imagery of the Torah scroll itself—the black letters resting upon white parchment—this episode invites us to reconsider absence, pauses, and periods of not knowing. Silence is revealed not as emptiness, but as a field of presence; not as abandonment, but as a different form of relationship. Together, we explore the hidden longing engraved within the soul, the sacred work of learning to listen beneath words, and the paradox at the heart of spiritual life: that sometimes the deepest revelation arrives only after we release our need to understand. A teaching for anyone moving through uncertainty, waiting, transition, or the fertile space between what has ended and what has not yet emerged. Ohmek Session dated June 23, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the story of Korach — and finds inside it not just a rebellion, but a lineage. The wound beneath Korach’s uprising was real. The argument was sound. But what he did with the wound swallowed everything. And yet — the sons of Korach did not die. Held in an impossible liminal space between Sheol and life, their descendants became seers, prophets, Temple singers. And their darkest psalm ends without resolution. Without the face of God turning back. Just darkness — sung in public, in community, by divine decree. This episode is personal. It asks what it means that unresolved grief belongs in sacred space. That you don’t need to fix your suffering before you bring it to God. And what becomes possible when we stop demanding resolution. Where are you, God? That question is worship too. If this episode stirs something in you around grief, Yocheved is running a four-session summer container through Shefa — The Medicine of Grief: A Journey Through the Fire and the Holy Dark. Find it at shefaflow.org Ohmek Session dated June 16, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the story of the spies — one of the most pivotal ruptures in the Torah — and asks: why did ten of the twelve collapse when they encountered the land? Drawing on the Beit Yaakov of the Ishbitzer and the kabbalistic teaching of arousal from above and below, Yocheved traces a formula for meeting complexity without collapse: autonomy, connection, and compassion. The grasshopper consciousness — there isn’t room for both of us — is not just a historical moment. It’s a nervous system state. A way of perceiving that collapses space when the field feels too big. And the antidote? A rope. The chevel. The thread that holds us vertical when everything feels overwhelming. The parsha ends with tzitzit — not by accident. Look at the threads. Remember the rope. Don’t spy after your own eyes. Ohmek Session dated June 9, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters one of the Torah’s most charged sequences — the Sota, the Nazir, and the priestly blessing — and asks the question underneath all of it: what drives the vow? Drawing on Rashi, the Sfat Emet, the Gene Keys of Richard Rudd, and her own ancestral reckoning with forced conversion and the violence of suppressed truth, Yocheved traces the arc from activation to alchemy. From the mirror of the Sota to the shadow of the Nazir — the ways we use devotion as armor, sensitivity as a hiding place, and holiness as a sophisticated avoidance strategy. And then the sin offering. And then the blessing. My sensitivity is not a hiding place. The vow beneath the vow is where the real work begins. Ohmek Session dated June 2, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

After Sinai — after the thunder, the fire, the mountain — God retreats to a tent. And says: modesty is beautiful. In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved explores the theology of the whisper — what it means that God contracts to dwell precisely in the broken, the quiet, and the ownerless inner wilderness where God is most at home. The offering God most wants may not be what you think. Ohmek Session dated May 12, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the sacred terrain of Lag BaOmer through the life and legacy of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai—guiding us into the hidden architecture of the cave, the field, and the fire. What does it mean to retreat into the unseen, to incubate in darkness, and to emerge without burning the world around us? Through these archetypes, and the subtle teaching of hod shebahod—humility within humility—this episode explores the rhythm between being and doing, concealment and expression, intensity and integration. This is a transmission on timing, surrender, and learning how to carry what is born in the depths into the ordinary with care. A teaching that lingers—inviting you to sense where you are in the arc, and how to meet it with more awareness, more softness, and more truth. Ohmek Session dated May 5, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the opening verse of Parshat Emor and finds a question hiding in plain sight — why does the Torah say speak twice? Emor. V’amarta. Say and say again. Drawing on Rashi, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and the Kedushat Levi — and weaving in her own parshanut, lived experience, and stories from the healing room — Yocheved traces the hidden architecture of speech. How our words carry the power of life and death. How divine love is structured as a double address. And what it means that the Torah names not only the priests but the sons. The children. The ones who need to hear it differently. This is a teaching about the parts of us that haven’t yet received the second speaking. The younger ones, the shamed ones, the ones we’ve been speaking to with the wrong tongue. And what becomes possible when we let the zohar — the radiance — reach all the way down. L’nefesh lo yitama. The soul was never defiled. It just needs to hear it again. Ohmek Session dated April 28, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the double parsha of Achrei Mot-Kedoshim with two words that stop everything: after the death. We are all living in some version of achrei mot right now. And the Torah, rather than rushing past the grief, drops us right into it — and then asks a surprising question: what does holiness actually require of us? Drawing on the Yom Kippur service, a strange and ancient ritual involving two goats, and the deceptively mundane commandments of Kedoshim, this episode traces a path through grief, bitul, and the paradox of what it means to be holy in a world that keeps asking you to show up. Some work only you can do. And some you were never meant to carry alone. Ohmek Session dated April 21, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the double parsha of Tazria-Metzora — and finds, beneath the surface of obscure ritual law, a precise and surprisingly tender map for healing. We’re in the Omer now. Pesach gave us freedom from. The Omer asks the harder question: what are we moving toward? Drawing on the Alter Rebbe’s Likkutei Torah, Yocheved traces the leper’s arc — a four-part journey embedded in the Torah’s own sequence: the wound that surfaces on the skin of an otherwise whole person, the loving witness who receives us first, the radical honesty of naming what’s here, and the integration that happens in solitude before we return to be witnessed again. On being seen. On being named. On becoming whole. Tamei. Tamei. And then — tahor. This is what freedom toward looks like in the body. This is the work of the Omer. Ohmek Session dated April 14, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this week’s episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved turns toward Pesach through the lens of faith as a state of consciousness—and what it means to live that consciousness in real time. Opening with a reflection on the current moment in Israel, she names how war and collective pain collapse our sense of space, fragment connection, and activate survival. Rather than turning away, she invites a different posture: one of presence, compassion, and spacious awareness—grounded in an understanding of how trauma and healing unfold. From there, she weaves together teachings from Rabbi Nachman, the Baal Shem Tov, and Chazal to reframe emunah not as belief, but as a lived experience of connection—a consciousness that allows us to remain in relationship with what is, even in moments of uncertainty, grief, and overwhelm. Through the inner map of Mitzrayim as constricted identity, and matzah as the “secret of faith,” this episode explores how Pesach is not only a story of leaving Egypt, but an ongoing movement from collapse to spaciousness, from identification to awareness, and from separation to Divine relationship. Ohmek Session dated March 24, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this week’s episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved opens Sefer Vayikra with a single, essential question: how do we decipher the language of the call? Drawing on the Mei HaShiloach and the Me’or Einayim, she explores the subtle and often overlooked language of the Divine call—one that begins before we even know we are longing, and often arrives through disruption, restlessness, and quiet inner knowing. This episode invites a shift from searching for a grand purpose to recognizing how life itself is already speaking, already guiding, already in relationship with us. Through personal reflection and live dialogue, Yocheved also meets the tension many of us carry: what happens when we feel the call, but don’t know where it’s leading—or when our deepest prayers feel unanswered? This is a conversation about intimacy, uncertainty, and learning to listen beneath the surface— where the call is already unfolding. Ohmek Session dated March 17, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership

In this week’s episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved explores the surprising placement of Shabbat within the story of the Mishkan. Why does the Torah mention Shabbat both after the instructions for building the sanctuary and again before the work begins? Drawing on teachings from the Me’or Einayim, she explores the deeper consciousness of Shabbat as a state of wholeness — a reality in which nothing is lacking and nothing needs fixing. Through the lenses of malacha (work), mah (whatness), and ayin (the spacious nothing that holds everything), this episode invites us to consider how Shabbat shifts our relationship to effort, repair, and spiritual striving. Ultimately, the teaching points toward a radical possibility: that when we return to the consciousness of Shabbat, we ourselves become a walking Mishkan, a dwelling place for the Divine. Ohmek Session dated March 10, 2026 __________ More on Yocheved Sidof : Yocheved Sidof is a mystic, teacher, trauma-informed spiritual guide and leader of Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of Being. __________ Deepen with Ohmek : Ohmek is a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being. It is the space that holds all, yet remains empty, the void that allows healing and transformation to take place, take shape, belong, integrate and disperse. It is an invitation inward, into a space and community, as well as one’s own inner world. A place to be stretched and to come together, to feel at home in exploration, with room to be and to breathe. At our upstate retreat center and Brooklyn locations, in our sacred gatherings, healing containers and embodied mysticism classes, we invite you into spiritual experiences and sacred spaces that allow us — collectively and individually — to explore our own depths, underneath the underneath. Website: www.ohmekliving.com Instagram: @ohmek.living To support these sessions and our offerings, strengthen our community, and enhance your engagement we welcome you to join MAAGAL , our founding membership circle https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership