In Parshat B’shalach, the Israelites find themselves caught between liberation and terror — having just left Egypt, only to be pursued, frightened, and unsure whether freedom was a mistake.

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, we explore the fragile space where prayer turns into protest, where faith wavers under pressure, and where crying out to God coexists with anger, doubt, and complaint.

Drawing on a teaching from the Ramban and Hasidic insights on consciousness and orientation, this class asks a central spiritual question: What draws us into relationship with God — and what allows us to stay when the answers don’t come quickly?

Through the lens of B’shalach, Amalek, and Moshe’s raised arms, we reflect on faith not as certainty, but as an ongoing act of turning — again and again — toward presence, even in fear.

Ohmek Session dated January 27, 2026

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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.

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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

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In this week’s Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved Sidof enters Parashat Va’era through a single question: What has to shift inside us to become a vessel for redemption? Drawing on Moshe’s struggle, Pharaoh’s resistance, and the somatic reality of exile as kotzer ruach (short breath), she maps five inner gateways that help move us from constriction toward liberation.

This episode explores speaking truth without guarantee, staying with disillusionment when things don’t change quickly, surrendering control when the path hardens, and deepening our relationship with God beyond a transactional faith. At the heart is a quiet engine: the felt knowing that we are remembered, heard, and held in covenant, even before outcomes arrive.

Ohmek Session dated January 13, 2026

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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.

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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

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In this week’s Underneath the Underneath, we enter the quiet, charged space of constriction. Teaching on Parashat Vayechi alongside the fast of Asarah b’Tevet, Yocheved explores what it means to bless before outcome, clarity, or redemption.

Drawing on the Torah’s portrayal of Yaakov blessing his sons in Egypt — at the very beginning of exile — we explore five portals of blessing: blessing through outcome, interpretation, attunement, posture, and transmission. Each offers a different orientation for meeting life when we are in the “not yet,” when the walls feel close but nothing has collapsed.

This class is an invitation to stay present in constriction without rushing meaning, to sense God not as absent in exile but intimate within it, and to recognize our lives as acts of spiritual transmission — unfinished, faithful, and deeply alive.

Ohmek Session dated December 30, 2025

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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.

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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

This week’s Underneath the Underneath enters the moment of Vayigash — when Yehuda draws near.

Through a luminous teaching from the Baal Shem Tov, we explore a radically Hasidic approach to suffering, prayer, and presence: not fixing, not explaining, not bypassing — but approaching.

What does it mean to come close without an agenda? To praise not as flattery, but as a state of consciousness? To recognize that even what feels like exile or burden is not separate from the Divine?

Drawing on the imagery of the snail, the energy of Tevet, the fading light of Chanukah, and the unfolding story of Yehuda and Yosef, this class offers a living map for staying present with what hurts — and discovering how awareness itself softens the weight we carry.

This is a teaching about faith, about being a guarantor for one another, and about the quiet courage of saying: I am here.

Ohmek Session dated December 23, 2025

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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.

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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

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This week’s Underneath the Underneath is a quiet, tender holding of a charged moment.

As Chanukah begins — a festival devoted to light made public — we sit inside Parashat Miketz, where Yosef emerges from prison into power, visibility, and recognition… while still hidden in plain sight.

In the wake of the terror attack at Bondi Beach, this class does not rush toward meaning or resolution. Instead, it asks a deeper question:

What does it cost to be visible?

Through Yosef’s story, the mitzvah of pirsumei nisa (publicizing the miracle), and the ancient Jewish negotiation between hiding and being seen, we explore the vulnerability of carrying light in a world that sometimes resists it.

This episode is an invitation to presence rather than answers — to stay with what is tender, raw, and alive — and to listen for the quiet wisdom that emerges when we allow ourselves to be seen, one flame at a time.

Ohmek Session dated December 16, 2025

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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.

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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

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This class is dedicated to Mushka (Silman) Glanstein, of blessed memory — a bright soul whose light will continue to ripple on for eternity.

חי׳ מושקא בת שמעון אברהם

This week’s session of Underneath the Underneath unfolds inside a living convergence:

Parashat Vayeshev, where Yosef descends into the pit and into prison, and Yud Tes Kislev, the liberation of the Alter Rebbe and the opening of the wellsprings of Chabad Chassidut.

Together, they draw us into a deeper inquiry: What is the cost of freedom — spiritually, emotionally, and soulfully?

Through Torah, Chassidut, and embodied mysticism, Yocheved explores the inner movements that make liberation possible: seeing our invisible prisons, entering the descent that refines us, learning to receive help without abandoning agency, and awakening to the truth that personal freedom always ripples into the collective.

Rather than a history lesson, this is a lived transmission— a journey into how freedom is forged in the body, in longing, in the questions that pursue us, and in the places we would rather not go.

Travel with us through five gateways that appear in every soul’s path toward liberation. Let them meet you where you are.

If you are navigating pressure, desire, longing, or the stirrings of a new becoming — this class is a companion for the road.

Ohmek Session dated December 9, 2025

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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.

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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 Underneath the Underneath, we meet Yaakov alone in the night — the place where every soul eventually finds itself.

There, in the dark, he wrestles with the angel of Esav, the unintegrated shadow that has followed him since birth.

From that struggle emerges something utterly new: a limp, a blessing, and the name Yisrael — the identity earned not by escaping difficulty, but by staying present to it.

Drawing from the Baal Shem Tov’s teaching on chomer (matter) and tzurah (form), we explore how transformation actually happens: not by defeating what opposes us, but by letting pressure, friction, and honest wrestling reorganize us from the inside.

We look at how the soul’s deepest questions — the ones that won’t leave us alone — are not obstacles but invitations.

How the personal and the collective are linked in a holographic dance. How the shadow we fear may be the midwife of our next name.

If you’re in a season of rumbling, reckoning, or re-discovering yourself… if your identity feels like it’s in transition or being refined… this episode offers a map, a mirror, and a blessing:

The wrestle isn’t the detour. The wrestle is the womb— of your next name.

Ohmek Session dated December 2, 2025

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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.

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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 Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved Sidof enters the raw, tender terrain of becoming through the story of Yaakov’s flight from home.

Between Be’er Sheva and Haran, between certainty and unraveling, Yaakov dreams of a ladder — and sees angels ascend and descend, yet cannot see himself.

Through the Izhbitzer’s teaching of the three names of the soul, the Me’or Einayim’s insight on the ladder, and the lived wisdom of parenting, grief, and individuation, Yocheved reveals a hidden truth:

we don’t see ourselves on the ladder until we have become someone who can bear seeing ourselves.

This is the messy middle — the second name — where life, relationships, heartbreak, and mystery refine us into who we are becoming.

A teaching on thresholds, identity, ancestral patterns, and the healing that allows a new name to emerge.

For anyone standing at a crossroads, navigating transition, or wondering how they arrived here — this one is for you.

Ohmek Session dated November 25, 2025

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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.

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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