Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Shelach: We Were Like Grasshoppers — A Kabbalistic Map for Meeting Complexity
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Shelach: We Were Like Grasshoppers — A Kabbalistic Map for Meeting Complexity
In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the story of the spies — one of the most pivotal ruptures in the Torah — and asks: why did ten of the twelve collapse when they encountered the land?
Drawing on the Beit Yaakov of the Ishbitzer and the kabbalistic teaching of arousal from above and below, Yocheved traces a formula for meeting complexity without collapse: autonomy, connection, and compassion. The grasshopper consciousness — there isn’t room for both of us — is not just a historical moment. It’s a nervous system state. A way of perceiving that collapses space when the field feels too big.
And the antidote? A rope. The chevel. The thread that holds us vertical when everything feels overwhelming.
The parsha ends with tzitzit — not by accident. Look at the threads. Remember the rope. Don’t spy after your own eyes.
Ohmek Session dated June 9, 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
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
View all episodes
By OhmekIn this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the story of the spies — one of the most pivotal ruptures in the Torah — and asks: why did ten of the twelve collapse when they encountered the land?
Drawing on the Beit Yaakov of the Ishbitzer and the kabbalistic teaching of arousal from above and below, Yocheved traces a formula for meeting complexity without collapse: autonomy, connection, and compassion. The grasshopper consciousness — there isn’t room for both of us — is not just a historical moment. It’s a nervous system state. A way of perceiving that collapses space when the field feels too big.
And the antidote? A rope. The chevel. The thread that holds us vertical when everything feels overwhelming.
The parsha ends with tzitzit — not by accident. Look at the threads. Remember the rope. Don’t spy after your own eyes.
Ohmek Session dated June 9, 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
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