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Something I’ve been sitting with: what does it mea

Something I’ve been sitting with: what does it mean to belong to a people both scattered and deeply connected?

I am honored to be invited to teach the culminating session of Embodied Judaism — a 14-week journey into the living heart of Jewish spirituality, created and hosted by @shroombabanate and @anavah_dr.genie.

My session is called Scattered and Whole: Israel, Global Community, and the Jewish Spiritual Inheritance.

And the question at the center of my class is the one I keep returning to:
What remains whole, even as we crumble again and again?

This Embodied Judaism course is a passionate, bold, and nuanced undertaking — a journey that meets Judaism as something able to withstand deep questioning. Each week weaves together music, movement, breath, and somatic practice with Torah, ritual, theology, and mysticism. The things they didn’t teach you in Hebrew school. It’s for the Jew, Jew-ish or non-Jew, the returning, the deeply curious. For anyone who has longed for a Judaism that lives in the body and heart — not just the mind.

The course starts June 1st, Mondays at 5:30pm PT / 8:30pm ET.

Link in comments 🙌🏼

#somatic #jewishlearning #embodimentpractice #mysticism #torah

Shavuot is the moment of Revelation. Torah descend

Shavuot is the moment of Revelation. Torah descending into body, into earth, into us. We receive The Gift. Like angels, we echo na’asheh v’nishma— we will do and understand.

And this year I’ll be bringing that teaching — from the inside out — as a scholar in residence at the annual Shavuot at Pearlstone, May 21–24.

This is a fun, open-hearted celebration. Two hundred Jewish, creative, nature-loving seekers. Families, singles, teens, young ones (and animals, too). Zohar scholars, cantors and earth-based Torah. Yoga and movement. Spirited davening. Farm-to-table meals from land they tend themselves. Strawberry fields. And real, living programming for kids and teens while the grownups go deep.

Pearlstone holds something. The land itself is part of the teaching.

If you’ve been wanting a Shavuot that meets you in your whole self — body, soul, lineage, longing — this might be it.

Message me for an Ohmek discount code.

#Torah #retreat #shavuot #farm #spirtuality

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For years, I had a recurring dream of the Rebbe.

For years, I had a recurring dream of the Rebbe.

I was standing in line to receive dollars. And just before my turn— Poof! The Rebbe closed the line. I didn’t receive one.

I’ve had many opportunities to sit with this dream and all it stirs in me, resisting the easy readings. Something deeper in me knew there was nothing dark here. Nothing withheld. Since I can remember myself, my love for the Rebbe is so deep, so alive in me. Constant. Fiery. The fastest road to my tears is contemplating the Rebbe. (Or my children.) Drip, drip, gush.

What the dream has been whispering, across many years, is this:

I don’t need the dollar.

The Rebbe was pointing toward something formless. The bond between a chosid and a Rebbe doesn’t live in the exchange. It’s not held in yichus, or how many dollars passed between palms, or how many farbrengens I stood inside. It can’t be counted. It can’t be closed.

It just is.

This is the Rebbe’s continuous gift— not what he gives, but what he reveals. That underneath everything, there is Essence. There is no line to stand on. Nothing to wait for. It’s here. And we are always, already, connected to it.

More precious than any dollar.

Happy birthday, my Rebbe. I love you.

#rebbe #spiritual #happybirthday #chabad #essence

My birthday today. In a season of shedding. Of no

My birthday today.

In a season of shedding.
Of not quite knowing what’s coming next, but sensing something else is emerging, reforming.

Learning to stay close
to the void,
to the murky,
to the quiet,
to the places that yearn
for intimacy.

Not a question of purpose—
that is crystal clear and pulsing.

But something in my power,
my voice,
my expression,
is upleveling, assuming a structure that feels so fresh, so ancient.

Trusting what is taking shape
in the unseen,
as it becomes.

Thank you to my Hebrew birthday twin and eldest daughter @msidof164_ who insisted that I use this picture for this post. Love you.

And happy 22nd anniversary to @yossis snd me. What a choice, getting married on my birthday… Ripples of celebration. To many more.

#thisis47

There are many spaces to gather and speak. Fewer s

There are many spaces to gather and speak.
Fewer spaces to sit and listen.

Ohmek Salon is a steady, monthly, in-person container for deep reflection and meditative practice. An intimate space. Tea. Cushions on the floor. Silence that has medicine… that speaks.

I’ve been in committed meditation practice for close to a decade, and am a certified Jewish meditation teacher. Meditation, whether as a seasoned practitioner or someone new to the practice, brings blessings. One of my favorite moments in any gathering is when we drop into shared contemplation— when the room quiets and something deeper begins to speak.

At the Ohmek Salon, we sit in guided meditation and in silence. Torah is offered as living wisdom, meant to be received as much as understood. There is space to share from our inner life in a way that feels safe and supported.

Meditation, for me, is a way to come into deeper intimacy with the vocabulary of the soul. To align with our inner knowing. To lander deeper into what IS. Ohmek Salon is a place to practice that together.

An old way, held in this moment.

Every uprising begins the same way: a line is cros

Every uprising begins the same way:
a line is crossed.
a body knows.
a soul says enough.

The midwives.
Moshe.
Iranians, in this moment of protest.

What is it that finally rises? What is the quality of our “no”? And how do we know when we can no longer stay quiet?

#iran
#iranprotests
#azadi
#torah
#collectivehealing

Something quiet has been forming in me for a long

Something quiet has been forming in me for a long time.

Not another class.
Not more content.
But a space — a sanctuary — for the deeper work of listening, integration, and inner life.

The Ohmek Mishkan is a monthly sanctuary for women and men who feel the undercurrents of their lives and want a place to meet them slowly and with care.

So many of us are saturated — with teachings, ideas, information — and what we’re really longing for is a place to live with the teachings.
To let them work on us.
To digest, reflect, and integrate — not rush past.

The Mishkan is that container.

Each month includes:
• a 90-minute sacred online gathering with embodied Torah, mystical depth, and guided inner work
• a monthly recorded intention to orient the inner journey
• a guided meditation to support integration
• a quiet WhatsApp sanctuary — not a chat, but a held field for reflection and attuned guidance

If Underneath the Underneath is where Torah meets our everyday lives,
the Mishkan is where Torah opens the inner architecture of our being.

It’s a slower rhythm.
A deeper companionship.
A space for what lives beneath the surface.

Registration is now open.
Our first gathering will be January 12.

If you feel the pull, you are warmly welcome to enter.

Link in bio ❤️
With love,
Yocheved

#InnerWork
#SpiritualAwakening
#ConsciousLiving
#SacredSpace
#ohmek

THE OHMEK MISHKAN sanctuary of the unseen A space

THE OHMEK MISHKAN

sanctuary of the unseen
A space to listen to the life within you.

For a long time, something quiet has been forming in me:
a space I’ve been listening to, tending to, preparing to share.

Tonight, I’m honored to open it.

Introducing: The Ohmek Mishkan.
A monthly sanctuary for women and men who feel called to explore the deeper interior of their lives —
a place to slow down, listen inward,
and meet the quiet layers of soul through embodied Torah, mystical depth, and guided inner work.

For the ones who feel the undercurrents of life…
who sense there is more to their inner world, and are ready to explore it.

If Underneath the Underneath is where Torah meets our everyday lives,
the Mishkan is where Torah helps us enter the inner architecture of our being.

Each month offers:
• a sacred 90-minute online gathering: meditation, transmission, learning, reflecting, deepening
• a recorded guided meditation
• a monthly intention
• a quiet WhatsApp sanctuary for reflection and attuned questions and responses
• access to all Mishkan recordings including monthly sanctuary gatherings, guided meditations and intentions while you’re a member

This is a space for what lives beneath the surface —
for the deeper parts of you that are asking for room, presence, and listening.

If you feel called, you are warmly welcome to join this new field.
Link in bio.

Looking forward to deepening together,
Yocheved

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