In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved steps into Sukkot still carrying the warmth of Yom Kippur — and finds in the humble, temporary structure of the sukkah a map for one of the deepest questions of human life: how do we walk through uncertainty?

Drawing on the Zohar's teaching that the sukkah is the shade of faith, the Izhbitzer on the schach as divine covering, and Rebbe Nachman's radical teaching that God created the world for people who can find faith through the confusion — this episode traces a trifecta alive in every sukkah: uncertainty, faith, and joy.

Not joy as the overriding of difficulty. Joy as deep attunement with the rightness of life as it is. The joy that emerges when we can hold our uncertainty in faith. The joy of following the divine into the wilderness — not because we have it figured out, but because we're in love.

We walked after You in the wilderness. That's the pillow talk of God and the Jewish people. And it's the invitation of Sukkot.

Ohmek Session dated September 22, 2026

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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