Ki Tetzei and Elul: The God of the Breast — Eil Sha-dai and the Field of Return
In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved arrives at Parshat Ki Tetzei with a chidush that stops everything: the Hebrew root of sadeh — field — is the same as Shadai. Eil Shadai. The God ...
18 Aug 55min
Shoftim and Elul: Who Stands at Your Inner Gate? — On Discernment, Surrender, and the Inner Prophet
In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters Parshat Shoftim at the threshold of Elul — and finds inside it a map for the inner work of this season.The Torah opens with a deceptively ...
11 Aug 56min
What Fire Reveals — A Teaching for Tisha B’Av and the Nine Days
In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the Nine Days and Tisha B’Av through the element of fire — and asks what fire actually does to us when we’re willing to stay with it.Drawi...
21 Juli 50min
Devarim: The Long Goodbye — Three Prophets, Three Eichas, One Sacred Question
In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the book of Devarim — the long goodbye — and finds inside one word the full arc of a people, a leader, and a life.Moshe stands at the edge...
14 Juli 55min
Matot-Masei and the Three Weeks: Gestation, Grief, and the Stories We Tell in Between
In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the Three Weeks — the 21 days of bein hametzarim — through a surprising teaching from Rebbe Nachman that changes how you see this season e...
7 Juli 59min
Pinchas and 17 Tammuz: Grief as Testimony — Four Women, Four Voices of Loss
In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the threshold of Parshat Pinchas alongside the beginning of the Three Weeks — and asks what it means to grieve as testimony.Through four w...
30 Juni 54min
Chukat-Balak: The Hidden Conversation— Why the Pause Is Part of the Torah
In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved explores the mysterious open space between the Torah portions of Korach and Chukat—a silence that stretches across thirty-eight years in the wild...
23 Juni 50min
Korach: Where Are You God? — The Sons Who Did Not Die, the Sheol, and the Sanctity of Unresolved Grief
In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the story of Korach — and finds inside it not just a rebellion, but a lineage.The wound beneath Korach’s uprising was real. The argument w...
16 Juni 49min
