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Underneath the Underneath

Welcome to Underneath the Underneath with Yocheved Sidof, Founder and Spiritual Leader of Ohmek (www.ohmekliving.com), a community of individuals pursuing deeper ways of being. Are you drawn to the mystical depths of life? Do you feel a call to explore what moves and shapes us? Do you long to live more fully, attuned to your light—and your shadows? Do you crave the paradox, the space where all is possible? Here, we explore these yearnings together and touch these profound depths. We dive into

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51:39

Before Sinai: Overwhelm, Voice, and the Wisdom of...

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2026/02/03

This week’s Underneath the Underneath sits with a surprising moment that comes before the giving of the Torah.Just before revelation at Sinai, Moshe is told by Yitro:You will surely wear yourself out. You cannot do it alone.Why does the Torah place this very human exchange — about overwhelm, capacity, and support — right before the most climactic spiritual moment in history?In this episode, Yocheved Sidof explores Yitro’s counsel as medicine: an invitation to honor the vessel before asking it to

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54:46

B’shalach, Protest and Prayer: What Draws Us to God —...

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2026/01/27

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

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54:33

Becoming a Vessel for Redemption: Five Gateways in...

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2026/01/13

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

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50:13

Blessing in Constriction: Veyechi and the Wisdom of...

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2025/12/30

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

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51:46

The Courage to Come Close: Yehuda, Presence, and the...

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2025/12/23

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

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54:08

The Vulnerability of Visibility: Yosef, Chanukah, and...

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2025/12/16

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

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54:28

The Cost of Freedom: Yosef, Yud Tes Kislev, and a...

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2025/12/09

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 אברהםThis 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 —

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55:58

The Wrestle Is the Womb: When Shadow Midwifes Your...

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2025/12/02

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

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52:21

Three Names, One Soul: Yaakov, the Ladder, and the...

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2025/11/25

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

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53:10

The Womb Between Worlds: Rivka’s Cry and the...

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2025/11/18

In this week’s Underneath the Underneath on Parshat Toldot, Yocheved Sidof returns from two weeks in Israel carrying a raw wisdom: the world is asking us to hold more than one truth at a time.Through the story of Rivka’s pregnancy—vayitrotzetzu, lama zeh anochi, lidrosh, shnei goyim b’vitnech—she reveals a four-step map of inner work rooted in the body’s own knowing.From Nova to an old-age home, from rupture to faith, this teaching explores Gam v’Gam not as a moral blur but as the womb-capacity to

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Lech Lecha - The Art of Sacred Uncertainty

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2025/10/28

In this week’s Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved walks with Avraham into the tender mystery of Lech Lecha — the call to leave what we know and step toward what we cannot yet see.What happens when the familiar stories fall away — when the ground of certainty dissolves beneath our feet, and all that’s left is the quiet pulse of trust?Through personal reflection, ancestral memory, and living Torah, Yocheved reveals uncertainty not as emptiness but as initiation — an invitation to meet the Divine in

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54:12

Between Regret and Compassion: The Flood, the...

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2025/10/21

Between Bereishit and Noach, the Torah pauses for a breath —a verse of divine heartbreak: “And God regretted that He had made man on the earth.”In this week’s session of Underneath the Ubderneath, Yocheved teaches from the seam between creation and re-creation — between the flood of loss and the rainbow of return. In the shadow of October 7th, as the world still trembles with grief and release, she asks: what does it mean to be a redeemed hostage of light? To carry within us the spark that survived

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55:28

Elul’s Heart of Knowing — Ki Tavo and the Nuance of...

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2025/09/09

In this session, we entered Elul through the lens of Parshat Ki Tavo and Moshe’s words: “God did not give you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear until this day.” Together, we explored the shift from Sinai’s black-and-white revelation to the subtle, nuanced knowledge that lives in the heart — Lev La’daat. Drawing on the Sfat Emet, we traced how true knowing is not a peak moment of clarity, but the slow integration that allows us to discern gradations, paradox, and presence in everyday

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When You Go Out to War: Elul, Struggle, and the Work...

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2025/09/02

In this session of Underneath the Underneath, we open Parshat Ki Teitzei with its raw beginning: “When you go out to war…” War here is not only a battlefield but a mindset — the inevitable rumble with our struggles, shadows, and longings. Together we explore how the Torah guides us to meet desire (the captive woman), loss (returning what was lost), and hardness of heart (Amalek) with compassion and discernment. Elul calls us not to erase our shadow, but to wrestle with it, return what was never

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51:46

Judges at the Gates and Elul: Compassion as a Path of...

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2025/08/26

In this session of Underneath the Underneath, we step into Elul through the parsha of Shoftim. What does it mean to place judges at our gates at the very moment we’re invited to return? Together we trace the arc from shattered gates and grief, through Tu B’Av’s love, into the gates of Elul—where the narrow places can soften into fields of compassion. Drawing on a teaching from Kedushat Levi, we explore how the way we judge ourselves and others awakens Heaven’s gaze in return, and how every threshold

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52:21

Scattered Altars, Chosen House: The Fire We Share

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2025/08/19

In this session of Underneath the Underneath, our 101st gathering, we explore the movement from scattered personal altars to the collective house of presence. What does it mean to serve ‘in every place you see,’ and what shifts when we are called to bring our flame only to ‘the place that God will choose’? Along the way, we touch the holy rub between autonomy and belonging, and uncover the blessing hidden in surrender. Beneath it all, we rest in the deeper Makom — the presence that is here and

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God Is Your Shadow — Reciprocity, Power, and the...

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2025/08/12

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, mystical currents and sacred texts converge around Parshat Eikev to ask: What is the nature of our relationship with the Divine?Drawing on a teaching from the Baal Shem Tov and the verse from Psalms — Hashem Tzilcha, “God is your shadow” — we explore the mirroring between human and Heaven, and how every movement below awakens a movement above. Through text study, reflection, and somatic practice, we attune to the spiritual anatomy of openness: the open

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The Shape of Comfort: On Suffering, Space, and What...

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2025/08/05

In this week’s episode of Underneath the Underneath on Parshat Vaetchanan, we step into the space after Tisha B’Av—the aftermath of grief—and ask: What is comfort, really? We meet Moshe on the mountain, retelling his impassioned prayer and God’s response: Rav lach—“enough.” Through this sacred moment, we explore three layers of prayer, Rav Kook’s radical view of suffering, and how real comfort doesn’t come from fixing pain but from having enough space to hold it. We explore the difference between

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53:08

Av, Grief, and Cosmic Permission: The Torah of...

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2025/07/29

In this week’s Underneath the Underneath, we enter the month of Av — a time when the Torah invites us into the depth of loss, not to avoid it, but to be transformed by it. Drawing from classical and contemporary sources — the Talmud, Psalms, the Piaseczner Rebbe, Francis Weller — we explore grief not as weakness, but as gateway.What if the tears themselves are a kind of prayer?What if the ruins are not a failure, but an initiation?From the Five Gates of Grief to the gates of tears that remain open

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52:01

Let it Loosen: On Vows, Grief, and Sacred Destruction

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2025/07/22

In this week’s Underneath the Underneath, we enter the territory of vows — the inner narratives, soul contracts, and unconscious promises that shape our lives.We explore the Torah’s invitation to practice hatarat nedarim — the loosening of vows — and how, through awareness and presence, old bindings can begin to soften. Rooted in the word matir (to untie), this is the spiritual art of becoming unbound, of allowing ourselves to change.But not all structures dissolve gently. Some must burn.Together,

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