Naso: My Sensitivity Is Not a Hiding Place — Sota, Nazir, and the Arc from Shame to Blessing

Naso: My Sensitivity Is Not a Hiding Place — Sota, Nazir, and the Arc from Shame to Blessing

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 [https://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 [https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership]

Bamidbar: Meet Me in the Tent — On God’s Modesty and the Sacred Art of the Whisper

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 [https://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 [https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership]

Lag B’Omer: The Cave, The Field, and The Fire — A Soul Map for Every Season

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 [https://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 [https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership]

Emor: The Zohar of the Tongue — What Needs to Be Said Twice

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 [https://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 [https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership]

Achrei Mot-Kedoshim: The Grief, the Goat, and the Paradox of Holiness

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 [https://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 [https://www.patreon.com/ohmek/membership]