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 hold more light. We look at burnout, titration, voice, and presence — and how revelation, healing, and growth only become sustainable when we listen to our yes and our no.

Drawing on Torah, Hasidic teaching, and lived experience, this class reframes Sinai not as an overwhelming spiritual peak, but as a relational moment — one that asks us to slow down, receive in measure, and remember that we are not meant to carry it all alone.

Torah, here, is not a way out of life — but a way more deeply into it.

Ohmek Session dated February 3, 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.

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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.

__________

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